Have you visited thePlatform’s Technical Resource Center lately?
One thing our customers love about thePlatform is our deep commitment to providing thorough introductory-level and developer-level documentation of our systems and products. If you haven’t seen our Technical Resource Center lately, we suggest that you check it out for everything you need to set up, use, and optimize your mps account, including:
- User guides for getting acquainted with mps
- Quick start and how-to guides for fast turnaround
- Programming guides for developers building custom solutions
- Detailed API reference libraries and Flash player object references
- Extensive sample code libraries
- Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- And more…
Easily find what you need
If you know what you want to do it’s easy to quickly find the documentation you need to get started. If you aren’t quite sure, or if you are just looking for ideas on how to extend mps to improve or customize your media management processes and players, feel free to browse through the various product categories for inspiration, or search our thoroughly indexed knowledge base. thePlatform’s Technical Resource Center main page gives you a clear and unambiguous navigation starting point into all the major components and tools that we offer.
- Media Publishing System (mps): An overall guide to the workhorse behind the scenes, the mps documentation includes a user guide, a programming guide, and detailed guides to our API and upload services. Find out how to customize mps and integrate your existing workflows quickly and easily into our system.
- Player Development Kit (PDK): Download the latest version of the PDK. Discover all the ways you can augment and customize your own Flash video player. We provide an extensive user’s guide for getting started, and a detailed developer’s guide for extending your player with ActionScript and JavaScript. You’ll also find a comprehensive guide to integrating advertising features into your player, as well as quick references to integrating with our many advertising partners.
- Transcoding Service: Learn everything you need to know about our hosted transcoding service and how it can help provide you with scalable, on-demand transcoding.
- Ingest Service: Discover how to use the Ingest Service to add media to mps, and how to set up and configure the Watch Folder and Feed Reader agents to match your system’s capabilities and your workflow requirements.
- Feeds Service: Learn how to get started using and optimizing the Feeds Service for syndicating your content across the web. We also offer an ever-growing list of search engine optimization how-to guides for submitting your content feeds to the leading search engines.
- Community Toolkit: Discover all the tools you need to add community features such as ratings, comments, tags, favorites, and polls to your video player or your media site. We offer a getting started guide, a developer’s guide, reporting services, and more to help you build and manage your community features.
- Remote Media Processor (RMP): Learn how to install, configure, and optimize your internal RMP servers to increase the speed and consistency of your data transfers to and from thePlatform, or to other locations on the Internet.
Keep up to date
Finally, you should check in with our Technical Resource Center regularly to learn what’s new. We are constantly adding new reference documents, how-to introductions, sample code blocks, and quick start guides to the site. You can also use the site’s “Watch” feature to receive email when a page is updated, or when any content related to a product is modified or added.
Also, we take your feedback seriously, so if you have feedback on any of our documentation, please let us know. You can contact us, or post a comment on any of the help pages.
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