Basics of video in DIVA

Having traveled from magnetic tape to pizza sized discs to smaller toaster-treat-sized discs, here we are again on the edge of a new video medium: digitally distributed. With education increasingly becoming more web centric, the streaming media directly to a user's browser has become essential. DIVA provides the ability for you to upload your video materials to share with your students and colleagues. This guide goes over the basic concepts and best practices you'll want to know to use video in DIVA.

Video in DIVA is powered by Flash. We use a powerful "transcoder" program to take any video format you upload and convert it to a Flash video file (.flv) so that users can play it within the browser. Since DIVA supports nearly every open video format and most of the proprietary videos, it is likely that any files you already have will work when uploaded to DIVA.

File size becomes an issue with many videos. Consider this: Any file you want to share with your students and collaborators will have to be reachable to them from home. As such, any large file that takes you a long time to upload, will take a long time for students and collaborators to download. If you're concerned about losing details from your video in compression, you can retain the high quality of your footage by using our advanced video encoding guide.

Having trouble playing back video from DIVA? Most issues are caused lack of software updates. To get the latest version of Flash go Here. etc. etc.

DIVA supports closed-captions on videos. You can read our guide on preparing closed-captioned video here.

It is required that you have adequate legal permission for any of the files you upload into DIVA. Any content reported in violation of an existing Copyright will be investigated and may be removed.