Selling video streaming

Date: Jan-24-2008

How to sell video streaming with Comersus Cart

The streaming video selling function allows selling direct access to AVI or WMV videos. Once the payment has been approved (whether by means of an online gateway, payment through bonus points or once the admin marks the order as paid), the customer will be able to access the list of orders contained in Your Account. Once there, he should select the order and if the same contains a video the customer will be able to see an icon to get access to it.

To configure the sale of streaming videos:
1. Place your videos in the digital goods folder.
2. Create a product for each video you wish to sell and load the name of the AVI or WMV video file within the Digital Goods field.
3. Set pDigitalGoodsWatchVideo as true in BackOffice/Configuration

Requirements:
1. File System Object with full permissions on the digitalGoods folder.
2. Comersus v7.097 or superior
3. Power Pack 7.097 or superior
4. The customer should have an IE 6.0 or superior browser or any other compatible web browser
supporting EMBEDDED videos using Media Player.

About video safety:
The streaming video sales scheme does not require a subscription to expensive streaming servers. Instead, it uses a simple file renaming scheme according to the customer's session. This means that the original video is kept hidden and a copy is created for the logged-in customer. This copy will self-destruct once the customer closes the video window.

In case a customer does not close said window or if he does not have the JavaScript function which executes the deleting code activated, the admin will have to carry out a daily deleting process of the video copies destined for streaming.

This can be done by means of a simple automatic procedure that could eliminate files having a an avi or wmv extension, the names of which start with a specified customer prefix in your store.