A video portal is a

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offering user created or professionally created

video Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode-ray tube (CRT) syste ...

content. Furthermore, it is video content management system, providing further access to a variety of visual sources with an interaction for users to upload, make, create, and make modifications to videos. Content creators, who have the ability to maintain, upload, organize and edit clips and reels, acquiesce spectators and nonparticipants to view those through a

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-type UI. That can be furthermore used by organizations, who used those to train their own employees, go Dutch in important announcements, or divide out recorded meetings. Video portal use cases are the knowledge sharing platform, product video catalogs, editorial hub for marketing team, further collaboration amongst unique departments, and

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. Types of it include, external and internal video portals. VIDIZMO is one of the biggest examples of video portals easily set up. In recent years, such as 2023,

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(AI) have the huge potential to construct savings and increase in revenue, as well as offering powerful search. To this day, it is absolutely an growing rapidly as an enterprise content type

Online video

Online video is video content distributed by the

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. Recently, several different studies have shown that, at least in the

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, online video reaches a majority of the population. This is due in part to the penetration of

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, and also to the emergence of highly successful video portals. These portals offer user created or professionally created content. The majority of online videos are shorter than 5 minutes in duration, a length generally preferred by users who view such content on computers or portable equipment, like

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s or

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s. Some portals offer videos in the 320x240 pixel resolution, while others opt for a larger format, such as 480x360 pixels (for a typical display) and 640x360 (for a widescreen 16:9 display). Many portals use

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for their videos, the player which is becoming a

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. Others use

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, DivX Web Player or

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. Devices like

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or Netgear's Digital Entertainer, capable of transferring video files from the Internet to the television screen, will cause an increase in the length of the size of videos, both in definition and duration. Most video portals generate their

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through

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. There are currently many advertising formats related to online video, such as preroll (commercials like those on

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and played before the video) and

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Comprehensive and up-to-date list of science video portals

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Online video

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