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Media Services Information
About Streaming Media Services
We offer streaming media services to the faculty and staff of American River College. Media services are offered for teaching, research, and administrative projects. If you require special accomodations, please, contact the IT Help Desk at 484-8259.
Request an Account on this Server
To request account space on this server for your media or to enquire about other options for delivering audio and video materials, contact the ITC staff--either Marsha Reske (916) 484-8493 reskem@arc.losrios.edu or Lani Rexius (916) 484-8494 rexiusl@arc.losrios.edu. Please specify your employee ID#, phone number, and the reason for your request.
Instructions for Using this Server
Click on Upload Login to upload media files to the system. When prompted, provide your login (for example: If the login is w0101010, you should enter "lrccd\w0101010") and Los Rios unified password. We currently support FLV format and a maximum file size of 100Mb.
Protect Your Videos
Please Note:
  1. Due to the size and space requirements of video files, we will not be backing up videos running on this server. Please make sure you keep a copy of any video you do not wish to lose.

  2. 1GB disk quotas have been assigned to folders storing videos. You will need to verify the space requirements of your files in order to stay below the 1Gb. limitation. (1 gigabit = 1024 megabits)
    If you need any technical support, please contact the IT Help Desk at 8259, and report a trouble ticket.
Student Access for Copyright-Protected Material
If instructors post copyright protected materials on this system, then students must login before they can view those videos. When prompted, students should enter their eServices account username and password. It is important for instructors to make this clear in their instructions when providing a link to the copyright materials.

For example: If the login is w0101010, they should enter "lrccd\w0101010" as user and enter their eService's password.

Provide students with this link, http://lradp.losrios.edu, so they can reset their password if needed.
How to Embed Your Video on a Different Web Server
It is possible to embed your streaming media on a different web server. Just copy and paste the code below to your webpage. Please, replace username with your login name and filename.flv with your actual file.
<!-- MC Media Player -->
<script type="text/javascript">
playerFile = "http://stream.arc.losrios.edu/media/embed/mcmp_0.8.swf";
fpFileURL = "username/filename.flv";
streamingServerURL = "rtmp://stream.arc.losrios.edu/streamingvideo";
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://arc-stream-msa0.arc.losrios.edu/media/embed/mcmp_0.8.js"></script>
<!-- / MC Media Player -->
Legal Disclaimer
Streaming services are intended to provide access to course material, special events, and other college-related activities. College staff that are creating streaming material are reminded to use the streaming system responsibly, and to comply with Federal and California laws. Please ensure that you have secured rights to use all materials for which you are not the copyright holder. You must own the copyright or obtain written permission for the electronic distribution rights to any media you wish to provide to others. The laws governing electronic distribution are different than the laws covering classroom use. Please refer to the materials on copyright on the ITC website and ensure that you abide by the TEACH ACT covering use of copyright protected materials.

BE AWARE:
  • Although the IT department makes every effort to ensure the security of web content, media potentially can be downloaded, copied, manipulated and/or redistributed.
  • Backup service for your video files is NOT provided. Keep your own copy in case of system failure.
  • Maximum size for each individual media file is 100 MB. For help, converting your files, breaking them into smaller segments or compressing them, contact the ITC staff.
  • Each user has been allocated a space limit of 1 GB. So manage your files accordingly.
  • Once a year you’ll be asked to clean up and delete any files you don’t need anymore to make room for new materials in the following semester.
  • You need at least Flash Player version 8.
  • If your file is copyrighted, please append the phrase "_copyrighted" at the end of your file, before the file extension. If your file does not have an extension, please add the phrase to the end of the file.

    Example:
    The copyrighted file movie.flv will be renamed as movie_copyrighted.flv. The file movie will renamed as movie_copyrighted.