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How To: VIMP Media Player

How To: VIMP Medienplayer

In the previous blog post we introduced the intial configuration of VIMP. In this article we explain how to use the VIMP media player to present your videos appropriately. We reveal you everything worth knowing about the functions of the media player and how you can use the VIMP Player in an uncomplicated way. By […]

How To: VIMP – Initial setup

How To: VIMP – Erstkonfiguration

In our “How-to” blogposts series we explain step by step how to use significant functions of VIMP and configure them accordingly to your requirements. This article gives you an overview of the initial configuration of VIMP – from presets to the integration of your logo. Presets After the installation of VIMP you can start directly […]

VIMP Ultimate: Web solution for your video portal

VIMP Ultimate: Web-Lösung für Ihr Video-Portal

VIMP Ultimate: Web solution for your video portal Are you looking for an efficient video platform solution that is distinguished by an easy operation? Then you are in the right place with the VIMP video solution for web & businesses. VIMP Ultimate supports high-definition videos and a stable performance – even with high user numbers. […]

E-Learning with VIMP

E-Learning mit VIMP

E-Learning with VIMP Online videos are an effective way to transfer knowledge quickly and effectively in today’s learning environment. Especially for employees in companies and students at universities, videos offer great advantages compared to learning with other media. Information can be captured better through moving images, and theory and practice can easily be combined. Read […]

What you always wanted to know about an authentic internal video communication

Was Sie schon immer über eine authentische interne Video-Kommunikation wissen wollten

A picture is worth a thousand words.[1] Online videos are now considered as one of the most important forms of communication. Especially in the area of internal communication, videos serve as an effective, time-saving and cost-effective tool. The big advantage of videos over e-mails or newsletters is the increased attention with which the content is received […]

The most important changes in VIMP 4.1

Die wichtigsten Neuerungen in VIMP 4.1

With VIMP 4.1 you can enjoy numerous new functions, improvements and optimizations. We would like to introduce the most important ones in the following. First, we will explain some new features in the user area, before we will briefly discuss changes “under the hood” at the end. Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) VIMP already supports different […]

The digital change and its challenges

Der Digitale Wandel und seine Herausforderungen

“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.”[1] Digitization is progressing on and bringing not only scores of chances, but also many new challenges with it. VIMP will assist you in mastering these challenges successfully. Read in […]

Effective Mediation of Learning Content via Online Video

Effektive Vermittlung von Lerninhalten via Online-Video

Learning and teaching videos are becoming more and more popular for students and pupils to support learning. With the help of our VIMP Campus solution, learning content at universities and colleges can be communicated even more easily and effectively. In the following you learn which opportunities online videos bring with them in the area of […]

Corporate Communication via Video

Corporate Communication via Video

Improve the Corporate Communication of your company with VIMP. Read about the opportunities offered by videos in the sector of corporate communication in the following. The importance of Corporate Communication Corporate communication is an important component of corporate identity and embraces all the communicative activities of a company. The aim is to use a specific […]

VIMP 4.0 – What’s new?

VIMP 4.0 - Was ist neu?

Recently we released VIMP 4.0. In addition to many new functions, we have also completely revised our product portfolio and can now meet the needs and requirements of our customers even better with our new products. As you may have already noticed, we also completely renewed our website. We hope you enjoy the new design […]

RWE Power AG

RWE Power AG

VIMP is used in the technical training of RWE Power AG. Especially with mobile learning it is important to provide media on any hardware for happy customers. Furthermore, VIMP offers an intuitive handling and many functions of social learning, that are taking account in didactical concepts. Wilhelm Stock – RWE Power AG / RWE Generation […]

University of Applied Sciences Merseburg

Hochschule Merseburg

For the big number of media that are produced at our university, mainly by our students, we were in search of a suitable solution. Our requirement was to provide central and secure access to those media within a video platform. ViMP is the appropriate system for us, because it offers a lot of additional possibilites, […]

GfK SE

GfK SE

The GfK Group, the biggest German company in market research and fourth biggest in the world, has chosen VIMP as the basis of their internal video portal “video4u”. The standard functionality of VIMP already fulfilled most of the requirements. Additional needs among others were an LDAP- and Amazon-S3-connection for scaleably displaying the contents. All GfK […]

German Cancer Research Center

Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum

The German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum / DKFZ), as the largest biomedical research institute, completely commits itself to cancer research. We’re happy to enable a secure online video information exchange for the employees of the research fields cell & tumor biology, functional & structural genome research, cancer risk factors & prevention as well as […]

TU Bergakademie Freiberg

TU Bergakademie Freiberg

Tutorials, lecture recordings, screencasts, instructional films, video conferencing etc. – no matter, if privately used or provided by the university – those formats are indispensable in studies, teaching, research and public releations meanwhile. The video platform of the TU shall not only be technical innovative, but also scientifical referential and unobjectionable with regard to copyright […]

University of Kassel

Universität Kassel

We use VIMP both as video on demand solution and for livestreaming in combination with Wowza streaming engine. By connecting VIMP with our central user management (NetIQ solution) we can provide a secure access to the video platform to all our students and staff members. Our range of applications includes lecture recordings, videos for teaching, […]

IRTS Institut Régional du Travail Social Hauts-de-France

IRTS Institut Régional du Travail Social Hauts-de-France

The I.R.T.S Hauts-de-France is a French high school of social work. The IRTS hosts more than 5000 students, interns and professionals on its 5 training sites (Loos, Valenciennes, Arras, Grande Synthe and Etaples) every year. We needed a solution to host our video resources for audiences and students, and we chose VIMP, for its simplicity […]

Schwäbisch Media Digital

Schwäbisch Media Digital

Video contents become more and more important to us as a media company. We are happy that we found a liable partner with VIMP that is able to realize our complex requirements. VIMP CMS is used to store and publish videos in both our news platform and website of our regional television network. ViMP HTML5 […]

OstseeSparkasse Rostock

OstseeSparkasse Rostock

In our company VIMP is generally used for the distribution of company information and for the extension of our content management system. With VIMP, information can be quickly distributed to specific target groups or topics. Thanks to its intuitive operation, the application has quickly found acceptance among employees. Ulrike Zeisberg – OstseeSparkasse Rostock IT Organisation

WayoutTV / PeoplePlus

WayoutTV / PeoplePlus

PeoplePlus Justice utilise the VIMP platform as an offline educational video solution for prisons in the East of England. PeoplePlus’s commitment to innovative learning practice demands that it seeks out the smartest technological solutions and partners to ensure its offender learning provision continues to thrive and grow as a trusted national provider within UK prisons. […]

OTH Regensburg

OTH Regensburg

VIMP as a media platform convinces with its simple usability. Videos can be uploaded via drag & drop and embedded into Moodle without the need to install another plugin. Settings like “Media permissions” and “Publications” keep control over who can access a medium at what time. Administrative effort is manageable thanks to Active Directory support. […]

TOYOTA

TOYOTA

VIMP has helped us to find a solution, where we need platforms to be able to publish material or information in video safely, accessible to all employees easily and reliable for further developments. Pak Jumadi – TOYOTA Indonesia

CMS Media Centre

CMS Media Centre

CMS, one of the top 10 global law firms, provides expert legal advice at both the international and local level. It is an organisation of independent law and tax firms providing legal services with ca 7,500 staff in more than 40 countries worldwide. Video is becoming more and more important these days and for a […]

Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR)

Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht (HWR) Berlin

With more than 11.000 students the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR) is one of the biggest schools of applied sciences in Germany. Its portfolio of degree courses includes management of economics, administration, law and security as well as engineering science in 60 courses on Bachelor, Master and MBA level. HWR Berlin is oriented practical […]

RUCH NOVAPLAST

RUCH NOVAPLAST

RUCH NOVAPLAST uses the video platform as a means of internal communication. After a relatively short implementation phase we primarily present products in self-produced videos there. They explain in which end products they will be utilized and point out the most important features. Internal knowledge transfer and sensitization with regard to qualitiy standards of our […]

University of Freiburg

Universität Freiburg

The University of Freiburg has long been looking for a video platform to meet its requirements for academic teaching and research. With VIMP a platform was found, with which both public and internal video recordings, as well as especially protected video material can be controlled and comprehensibly published. VIMP and the central learning platform ILIAS […]

VIMP Installation Service

Leave the complete installation process of your VIMP platform to us.

 

The VIMP installation service includes:

To access your server from the outside, we need the following:

We recommend Linux as operating system. An installation under UNIX, BSD or Windows is also possible, but is not officially supported by us.

Minimum server requirements for installing VIMP:

Webserver

PHP

MySQL/MariaDB

Transcoding
Please install the transcoding tools exactly as described in the documentation. Installing the standard packages is not sufficient due to patent regulations.

CSS modifications
To concatenate modified CSS files, npm must be installed.

Hardware

As a minimum requirement we recommend:

For productive use we recommend:

We recommend using a RAID controller for additional data security.

VIMP Installationsservice

Überlassen Sie den kompletten Installationsprozess Ihrer VIMP-Plattform uns.

 

Der VIMP Installationsservice beinhaltet:

  • Vorbereitung Ihres Servers
  • Installation der erworbenen VIMP Software
  • Installation der Transcoding Tools

Um von außen auf Ihren Server zugreifen zu können, benötigen wir folgendes:

  • SSH-Zugriff auf Ihren Server (idealerweise als root)
  • Vorinstalliertes Hosting (Apache + MySQL/MariaDB)

Wir empfehlen Linux als Betriebssystem. Eine Installation unter UNIX, BSD oder Windows ist ebenfalls möglich, wird von uns aber nicht offiziell unterstützt.

Minimale Servervoraussetzungen für die Installation von VIMP:

Webserver

  • Apache2
    • Version 2.4 empfohlen
  • oder NGINX

PHP

  • Version 7.1 – 8.0
  • GD-Bibliothek, openssl, cURL, MySQL, mbstring, PDO, pdo_mysql und XSL-Erweiterungen müssen installiert sein
  • PHP CLI (Command Line Interface) muss installiert sein
  • SourceGuardian Extension (außer für ViMP Ultimate Extended)

MySQL/MariaDB

  • MySQL: Version 5.7 – 8.0
  • MariaDB: Mindestens Version 10.2
  • InnoDB muss installiert sein

Transcoding
Die Transcoding-Tools bitte genau wie in der Dokumentation beschrieben installieren. Die Installation der Standardpakete ist aufgrund patentrechtlicher Bestimmungen nicht ausreichend.

  • FFmpeg
  • FFProbe
  • exiftool (>10.8)
  • time

CSS-Anpassungen
Um modifizierte CSS-Dateien zu verketten, muss npm installiert sein.

Hardware

Als Mindestanforderung empfehlen wir:

  • Quad-Core-Prozessor
  • 8 GB RAM
  • 500 GB Festplattenspeicher (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Für den produktiven Einsatz empfehlen wir:

  • Hexa-Core-Prozessor oder besser (mehr Kerne ermöglichen insbesondere eine schnellere Transcodierung der Medien)
  • 32 GB RAM oder mehr
  • 2000 GB Festplattenspeicher oder mehr (die benötigte Größe hängt im Wesentlichen von der Medienzahl ab)

Wir empfehlen die Verwendung eines RAID-Controllers für zusätzliche Datensicherheit.

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