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TANDBERG
CONTENT SERVER
USER GUIDE
Table of
Contents
What’s New in
this Version?
Trademark/
Licenses
Safety/
Environmental
Introduction
Installation
Quick Setup
Operation
Administrator
Settings
Conference
Setup
View
Conferences
Appendices
D 13898.04
DECEMBER 2006
Check the platform,
browser and
browser version,
then select the
appropriate
streaming format
for content creation
and playback
according to the
compatibility matrix.
Appendix
Compatibility
About Compatibility
Platform and Browser Version Compatibility
For correct playback of
streaming video on client
machines, please read the
compatibility notes on this
page.
OS
Browser
QuickTime
Windows
Media
Real Media
MAC
FireFox 1.5 and
higher
Yes
No
No
WIN
Mozilla FireFox 1.0
and higher
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internet Explorer 6.0,
and higher
Yes
Yes
Yes
Recommended Player Versions
Content Type
Recommended Player
Windows Media content
Windows Media Player
9.x or 10.x
Real Media content
RealPlayer™ One
QuickTime content
QuickTime 6 or 7
Playback of archive (ASF format) content
Platform:
Windows® XP
Browser version:
Internet Explorer (all versions) and
Mozilla Firefox (all versions).
Streaming content format:
Windows Media content
from archiving calls (ASF format).
The TANDBERG Codec Pack must be installed on client
machines to play back archiving Windows Media content
(ASF format).
The TANDBERG Codec Pack is available for download
by all Content Server users from this location:
Help>Conference Test Page.
Administrators also have access to a distributed Codec
Pack version, TAACodecPack_Dist.msi, from this location
on the Content Server: C:\Program Files\TANDBERG\
ContentServer\CodecPack. The distributed Codec Pack
installer performs a ‘silent’ installation, with no user
action required at the end of the installation.
Download details
Name:
TAACodecPack.msi or TAACodecPack_Dist.msi.
Type:
Windows Installer Package.
Publisher:
TANDBERG
Version:
1.0.0
Date:
20/09/2006
Size:
3.4MB
Supported OS:
Microsoft® Windows® XP.
Platform:
Windows.
Browser version:
Mozilla Firefox (all versions).
Streaming content format:
Windows Media content from transcoding (WMV
format) and archiving calls (ASF format).
Mozilla Firefox browsers require ActiveX® control plugin to be installed to display
movies in Windows Media® WMV and ASF formats.
The following ActiveX plugin for Mozilla Firefox has been tested –
Adam Lock’s
ActiveX Plugin for Firefox
, available as a free download at the time of publishing
this user guide.
To find the download site, either type “Adam Lock’s ActiveX Plugin for Firefox”
as a search string in your search engine, or follow the instructions for installing
and checking the Active X plugin installation from the MozillaZine Forum Index ->
Firefox Support page at
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206213
From this page, you can click on either “Warp to ActiveX Plugin” or “Installing the
ActiveX plugin” in the Contents List to find the correct version for your Mozilla
Firefox browser to download and install.
Playback of Windows Media Content in Mozilla Firefox
ActiveX®plugins are browser-version specific. If users download the
wrong version of the plugin, this can break their browser.
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