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erivas1-Visitor
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September 17, 2014
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Windchill and Video File formats

  • September 17, 2014
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Dear PTC members,

If one uploads different video file formats into Windchill as a document, is it possible through either Creo View, Windchill Desktop Integration, or internal Windchill association (e.g. "Open in Quicktime" or "Open in MS Media Player", rather than Creo View or Relationship Explorer) to associate video files with corresponding desktop based video players? Similar to MIME configuration for email media attachments.

Regards,

-Emil

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sm_011-Visitor
1-Visitor
September 18, 2014

If you are using the browser based download, the file will be opened with the application defined for the browser. There is no special configuration in Windchill. If you'd like to see different icons to identify the various video formats, that is a different question and covered in the Adding and Updating Data Formats for Content Holders HelpCenter topic.

What Windchill cannot do today is preview the content or stream the file to the player. It must complete a full download, open the parent aplication and run the file. It woudl be nice if there was a "Play" option for the video file and it could be streamed to a plugin or local player directly from Windchill.

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    erivas1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    September 18, 2014

    Hi Scott,

    I tried clicking on your hyperlink and got...

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    The files I am talking about are some Robotalk mp4 files, and even a preview is not required or streaming as it might consume enormous bandwidth, if everyone hit Windchill concurrently during the 6 weeks of FRC. Feel free if you get sometime to look around in our Windchill account as you are included as a manager. I guess I am at a stage where I know enough to be dangerous, so help keep me in the straight and narrow.

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    dschenken1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    September 18, 2014

    Hi Emil - the link probably did not work for you because of the "cs" in the path. That indicates to me that it requires a log in from a paid-maintenance account. I think CS = customer support; aka with maintenance contract.

    Your request is unique enough you may wish to also ask on PTC/User - it's also free. http://portal.ptcuser.org/p/fo/sc/catid=17

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