Preface

The Oracle Video Client Software Guide provides information necessary to install and develop applications with the Oracle Video Client software. Specifically, this manual describes the steps to:

install the Oracle Video Client software on a client PC.
test the installation with local MPEG files.
test the installation with networked MPEG streams sent from the Oracle Video Server.
develop applications that use streamed video from the Oracle Video Server.

This manual describes the methods and properties associated with the Oracle Video Custom Control (an OLE Custom Extension) and the Oracle Video Server Web Plug-in. It also includes code examples for the supported applications.

Important

Different client platforms have Oracle files installed in different areas. For this reason, file paths are shown relative to the variable location %ORACLE_HOME%, which represents the directory containing the Oracle Video Client software.

On Microsoft Windows for Workgroups clients, this will be \orawin on the hard disk containing the files.
On Microsoft Windows 95 clients, this will be \orawin95.

Intended Audience

This manual is intended for systems administrators, multimedia developers with Windows experience, or anyone with the appropriate experience who needs to install the Oracle Video Client software and use it with Oracle Power Objects, Oracle Forms, Microsoft Visual Basic, or a web browser.

How This Manual Is Organized

This manual is divided into these chapters:

Chapter 1, "Installing the Oracle Video Client: Windows for Workgroups"
Describes how to install the client software on a personal computer running the Microsoft Windows for Workgroups operating system.

Chapter 2, "Installing the Oracle Video Client: Windows 95"
Describes how to install the client software on a personal computer running the Microsoft Windows 95 operating system.

Chapter 3, "Oracle Video Server Web Plug-in"
Describes how to access MPEG video from the Oracle Video Server through HTML pages.

Chapter 4, "Oracle Video Custom Control"
Describes the Oracle Video Custom Control, an OLE Custom Extension (OCX) that enables you to add MPEG video capabilities to an OLE2-compliant application (such as Oracle Power Objects or Microsoft Visual Basic). Provides a tutorial on building a simple application in Visual Basic and Oracle Power Objects.

Chapter 5, "Working with Oracle Forms"
Describes how to use the Oracle Video Custom Control with Oracle Forms, and provides a tutorial on building a simple application.

Appendix A, "The Sample Applications"
Describes how to install and run the sample applications that are installed with the Oracle Video Client software.

Related Publications

You can find out about the organization of the Oracle Video Server documentation by reading the Oracle Video Server Documentation Road Map.

Conventions Used in This Manual

This guide uses particular notational conventions to clarify syntax, enhance visual access to pages, and otherwise distinguish elements, such as code examples and keystrokes the user should enter from the text provided as background for those examples. These conventions are listed here:

Feature	Example	Explanation
boldface	mna.h timeout	Identifies file names. Identifies function arguments.
boldface, trailing parenthesis	mzsInit()	Identifies function names.
italics	container1	Identifies a placeholder in command or function-call syntax; you replace this placeholder a value or string of your own.
ellipses	n, ...	Indicates that the preceding item can be repeated any number of times.

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