Short post from me, but a hello as well.
I’m Ross, and I work with SharePoint. Feel free to follow me on twitter etc. but I’ll probably moan more about the French and talk food. (I like food)
I’m in the middle of leading a project which is basically an internal YouTube for our business, using SharePoint 2013 as the platform, and it’s pretty sweet.
I will go in to more details of the project once we’re set, but I thought I would detail one of the niggles we experienced along the way, which we couldn’t find documented anywhere.
Our base was a SharePoint 2013 Asset Library, which we customised and used as our test area for offloading processing to the cloud (both Azure and AWS tested, and then rejected by legal as prod methodologies), streaming and all our functionalities required.
On adding content to our dev 13 instance though, we noted that the property LengthinSecs, is displayed out of the box as a column associated with the video content type, but that this was not picking up any data. I had loaded a good 40 videos in to the library and not one had content in this column. Hmmm
Why not?
So logging on to the SharePoint server, and checking in Explorer view, adding the length column, you still get no data shown. So it’s not front end wise, it was never getting it in the first place.
Why not try enabling desktop experience on the server? Someone said… Why would you want to do that on your SP server?
We did this, and it worked. It did not go back and add it to all the prior content uploaded, as it adds this as part of the upload process. So I had to remove and re add all the content, but when I did, it then rendered all the properties that were missing before.
So if you find you’re missing these properties from your video content, enable desktop experience on your server and try again.