You can publish hosted video layers from video files and supported metadata files using ArcGIS Excalibur. To publish hosted video, you must have the appropriate privileges to publish video layers..
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ArcGIS Excalibur requires an add-on license and additional installation. To learn more, see ArcGIS Excalibur system requirements.
Complete the following steps to publish a hosted video layer using ArcGIS Excalibur as a user with at least the privileges to publish video:
- On the ArcGIS Excalibur home page, click Publish New: Hosted Web Layers.
Alternatively, from the left navigation menu, click Publish Layer.
- In the Video Layer section, click On Demand.
- Type text for Item Name.
- Choose the folder that the new layer will be created in.
- Optionally, provide Summary text that describes the layer.
- Type tags that describe the layer.
Separate the terms with commas (for example, Federal land is considered one tag; Federal, land is considered two tags).
- Specify whether you want to share the layer across the organization or to specific groups.
- Click Next.
- Choose the Data Source value and provide the data files and associated metadata files needed to publish your layer.
You can browse to these files or drag them to the drop zone. Two publishing strategies are supported:
- Video Layer from a Single Video File—Create a video layer from a single video file containing the required metadata.
- Video Layer from a Video File and Metadata Files—Create a video layer from a collection of files containing video and sensor metadata information. Choose this option if the video file does not contain the required metadata.
- Click Clear All Files to start over.
- Click Next.
A small portion at the beginning of the video will be analyzed to determine the source resolution, format, and available metadata.
- Configure the video service name.
The service name can be different than the portal item name for this layer. Service names cannot contain spaces and/or invalid characters.
- View the source video information, which provides the analyzed results of the first portion of the video.
This displays which telemetry information is available and the source resolution of the video.
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Only a small portion at the beginning of the video is being analyzed. This may return unknown or incorrect results such as unknown source resolution or no metadata identified.
- If available, select the desired output video resolutions.
When ArcGIS Video Server is installed and configured on an environment with GPU, videos can be published and encoded with multiple resolutions up to the source video resolution, but not above. If GPU is not enabled on the environment, the native resolution of the video will be used.
- Optionally, configure Layer Location Details.
This provides the initial startup extent and camera location and heading.
- Initial Map Extent—Pan and zoom or use the search widget to go to a specific location of interest to define the initial extent of the video. This is the starting extent of the map when the web map loads and remains at this location if the video does not contain any additional metadata.
- Sensor Position—Use the drop-down menu to select a coordinate format and enter in or paste the coordinate of the sensor location if known. Additionally, use the Capture Coordinate tool to click directly on the map to define the sensor location.
- Heading—Enter in the heading degrees (0-360 degrees) of where the camera is facing, with 0 degrees = North, 90 degrees = East, 180 degrees = South, and 270 degrees = West.
- Field of View—Define the approximate field of view, or the area, that can be seen by the camera. This approximation can be defined between a narrow and wide FOV from 10 to 360 degrees.
- Click Save.
- Click Next Step.
- View a summary of your choices prior to publishing. Click Back to make any changes.
- Click Create Layer.
Once the video layer is published, click Connect to Canvas to work with the layer in the canvas in ArcGIS Excalibur.