Documentation Road Map

This document is your guide to the Oracle Video Server documentation. It describes what is in each of the documents and how to use the online documentation.

There are two sections in this document:

The Documents

The Oracle Video Server library consists of the documents listed in this table. If you are viewing this document through an online viewer, you can click on the document name to go to that document.

Document	Use this document to:
Oracle Video Server Quick Start A49563-1	Take the quickest route to creating video content, and streaming your video from the server to a client application.
Oracle Video Server System Tour Part Number A42272-3	Understand the components of the Oracle Video Server and how they work.
Oracle Video Server Installation Guide: Sun SPARC Solaris Part Number: A48486-2	Learn how to install the Oracle Video Server software and prepare sample content for testing your Oracle Video Server system.
Oracle Video Server Administrator's Guide: UNIX Part Number A42271-4	Learn how to operate the Oracle Video Server on your hardware.
Oracle Video Server Utilities User's Guide Part Number A42268-3	Learn about the utilities that you use to operate and manage the Oracle Video Server. Only available online.
Oracle Video Server Quick Reference Part Number A42269-3	Get quick reminder information about the Oracle Video Server utilities. Not available online.
Oracle Video Server Release Notes: Sun SPARC Solaris, and Oracle Video Client Release Notes Part Numbers A42270-4 and A43482-5.	Find out about known limitations and work-arounds for the current release of the Oracle Video Server on Sun SPARC Solaris, and the Oracle Video Client. Not available online.
Oracle Video Client Software Guide Part Number A42334-4	Learn how to install the Oracle Video Server client software and how to use the client software in an application.
Oracle Video Server Logger Messages Part Number A44116-2	Find out more information about Oracle Video Server logger messages. Only available online.

We recommend that anyone who will be managing, administering, or programming the Oracle Video Server should read the Oracle Video Server System Tour first.

Troubleshooting Information

For information on typical problems and solutions concerning the Oracle Video Server and Oracle Video Client, point your web browser to the URL file://d:/ovsdoc/ovspr/inde.html, located on the Oracle Video Client CD.

The Online Documentation

To make the Oracle Video Server documentation more easily accessible, it is available online. There are two forms of online documentation:

HTML, which is readable by most HTML browsers.
Adobe(TM) Acrobat(TM) (PDF files), which are readable with the Adobe Acrobat reader and when printed appear exactly like the printed versions of the documentation.

The only documents not available online are the Release Notes and the Quick Reference; these documents are available only in printed form. The Oracle Video Server Utilities Guide and the Oracle Video Server Logger Messages are only available in online form.

The online documentation is installed in the Oracle Video Server in the file $ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc/ovsdoc.tar. You must use these commands to install these files into $ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc:

cd $ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc

tar -xvf ovsdoc.tar

This creates two additional directories: $ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc/html and $ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc/pdf and installs the documentation files in those directories.

The online documentation is also available directly from the distribution CD-ROM at /ovsdoc/html and /ovsdoc/pdf.

HTML Viewer

To view the HTML documentation, we recommend you use a browser that supports HTML 2.0 with tables.

Viewing on the Oracle Video Client

When you view the HTML files on an Oracle Video Client Windows machine, you can only read the documentation files from the CD-ROM. These files are in the directory D:\OVSDOC\HTML (if your CD-ROM is drive D:). To read the documentation using an HTML browser, start at the URL:

file:///D:\OVSDOC\HTML\ROADMAP\ROADMAP.HTM

Viewing on the Oracle Video Server

To run a browser on your Oracle Video Server computer, you must first install a browser. You can obtain a web browser from a number of FTP sites.

You can view the documentation that is stored on your server from a browser running on that server. To do this start at the URL:

file:///$ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc/html/roadmap.html

If your browser is unable to expand $ORACLE_HOME, you'll have to do it yourself.

If you need, you can set up an HTTP server and make the documents available to other readers on your internal web.

Adobe Acrobat Reader

You can install the Adobe Acrobat reader on both the Oracle Video Server UNIX computer and on the Oracle Video Client Windows computer.

The installation files for the Adobe Acrobat reader are in the /ovsdoc directory of both the Oracle Video Server CD-ROM and the Oracle Video Client CD-ROM.

To install the Acrobat reader on a Solaris machine:

Mount the Oracle Video Server distribution CD-ROM
Change directory to /cdrom/ovsdoc/acroread.
Use the install script to install the Acrobat reader.

To install the Acrobat reader on an HP-UX machine (from tape):

Copy the contents of the Oracle Video Server distribution tape to a staging area (named /stage).
Change directory to /stage/ovsdoc/acroread.
Use the install script to install the Acrobat reader.

To install the Acrobat reader on a Windows machine:

Mount the Oracle Video Client distribution CD-ROM.
Change directory to D:\OVSDOC\ACROREAD.
Read the README.TXT file.
Change directory to DISK1.
Run SETUP.EXE to install the Acrobat reader.

Viewing on the Oracle Video Client

When you use Adobe Acrobat on an Oracle Video Client Windows machine, you can only read the documentation files from the CD-ROM. These files are in the directory D:\OVSDOC\PDF (if your CD-ROM is drive D:). To read the documentation using Adobe Acrobat, start with the file:

file:///D:\OVSDOC\PDF\ROADMAP.PDF

Viewing on the Oracle Video Server

To read the Adobe Acrobat documentation that is stored on your server, start with the file:

file:///$ORACLE_HOME/vs21/doc/pdf/roadmap.pdf