The Media Player Rotator Web Part either selects a random media file, a specific media file or a media playlist from the specified SharePoint Picture or Document Library. The Microsoft Media Player plug-in is used to play back the media files. Supported file formats are MP3, SWF (Flash), FLV/F4V (Flash Video), PDF, AVI, WMV, MP4, MPG, MPEG, YouTube, ASX, RTMP (Streaming Media), MOV and M4V (QuickTime)
The Web Part can also be used to display a single static movie by specifying a file name in the "Media File Name" parameter field.The Web Part also allows to play back YouTube videos.
The following parameters can be configured:
- SharePoint Library containing the media file(s)
- single movie/movie rotation mode
- Media Player dimensions
- Display of Title and Description information taken from the SharePoint Library
- Display of a Playlist for manual selection of the media files to be played back
- Web Part Connection to a SharePoint List or Library