Glossary of terms used on this site
- Bundle
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A prepaid package of video minutes.
A Bundle of 50 Hours gives you 3000 minutes of video purchasing power, based on the duration of video clips.
- Download
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Copying the video file from the web server to your computer. When downloading a video, a user must wait for the entire file to be transfered in order to watch it. Since video files tend to be very large, the download process can be a very long time, and require a great amount of disk space to store the files.
- Institutional Access
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This method, as the name implies, is our mechanism to allow purchases made by an administrator or librarian to be made available to everyone in your institution without the need of additional passwords or login credentials.
If your institution uses a proxy server, or has dedicated IP addresses, you can specify them in your account, and your internal authentication systems insure that your video purchases are available to everyone that needs them.
- Proxy Server
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A proxy server is a server or software that gives the appearance to our servers that an off-campus request is coming from a known on-campus IP address. The proxy server handles authentication using some sort of password-protected page on your main site, with user credentials usually supplied from a database or directory, such as LDAP.
- Streaming
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Streaming video is content sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer in real time. With streaming video, a user does not have to wait to download a file to play it. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream of data and is played as it arrives. The user needs a player, which is a special program that uncompresses and sends video data to the display and audio data to speakers.
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