A general scenario of Aurigma Video Uploader usage is pretty simple:

1. A user opens a page with Aurigma Video Uploader embedded inside.
2. They navigate through their folders and videos without leaving a browser.
3. Once the right video file is found, Video Uploader converts it into WMV file format.
4. Converted video is uploaded to your website.
5. To play this movie online, you use Silverlight-based video player.

Video Uploader vs. Traditional Server-side FLV Transcoding

Aurigma has both technological and legal advantages over traditional methods of converting videos to FLV on your servers.

Technology Benefit

From technological point of view, you can shift very resource-intensive video conversion operation from servers to clients. No need to allocate powerful servers which will do nothing but video transcoding. It allows you to reduce your IT costs significantly.

Legal Benefit

From a legal point of view, Microsoft video technology is superior to Adobe FLV. Adobe video format supports only proprietary video codecs which have quite rigorous license terms. That's why FLV encoding license requires users to pay a lot of fees based on amount of converted videos or a pretty large flat per-server annual fee. By contrast, Microsoft does not charge anything for transcoding to WMV. Therefore you will save a lot of money on license fees you would pay to Adobe.

Extra Video Processing Capabilities

Aurigma Video Uploader can do more than just convert any video file to WMV. It has a number of other video processing features you may find extremely useful.

Video Resize

With Aurigma you can reduce video dimensions during upload. If you do not want your users to upload HD videos due to the limited bandwidth, you can configure Video Uploader to resize it to, say, 640x480.

Get A Thumbnail for Video

When you display a list of videos available on a website, you need to identify a video file in some way. A good idea is to display a random frame from a video as a thumbnail. Video Uploader is able to grab a frame and send it along with the transcoded video file.  

Cut Video Interval

You can configure Video Uploader to grab only a portion of a video movie. For example, take only first 10 minutes, or cut a fragment from 5th minute to 7th. This is useful if you do not want your users to post lengthly videos.

Add Watermarks

If you want to prevent the video from being distributed to other websites without reference to you, it is a good idea to put your logo on this video before upload. Aurigma Video Uploader can do this during