Table Of Contents

Getting Around and Watching Videos

Working with Playlists

Selecting and Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist

Selecting and Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist

Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist

Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist

Working with the Program Guide

Searching for a Video

Getting Around and Watching Videos

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Tabs on top of the navigation area help you to browse, find, preview, and watch videos easily.

This chapter contains these sections:

•Working with Playlists

•Working with the Program Guide

•Searching for a Video

Working with Playlists

Playlists are collections of videos that you can watch one at a time or together in sequence. There are two playlist types.

Featured Playlists	Content managers for your Video Portal select which videos to include in the featured playlist.
Personal Playlists	You select which videos to include in your personal playlist.

This section includes these topics:

•Selecting and Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist

•Selecting and Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist

•Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist

•Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist

Selecting and Watching Videos in the Featured Playlist

Step 1	To see the list of featured videos, click Playlists, then click Featured Playlist.
Step 2	To watch a video, do either of the following: •Double-click a video title in the list. •Click a video title one time in the list. Then, when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.

Selecting and Watching Videos in Your Personal Playlist

Step 1	To see your personal list of videos, click Playlists, then click My Playlist. If you have not added any videos to your playlist, it will be empty. Otherwise, the videos are sorted in chronological order according to when you added them.
Step 2	To watch a video, do one of the following: •Double-click a video title in the list. •Click a video title one time in the list. Then, when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.

Adding Videos to Your Personal Playlist

Step 1	Do any of the following: •If you are playing a video, click Video Info. Then, in the video overview, click Add to My Playlist. •If an interstitial is playing for a video that you have not added yet to your personal playlist, click the Add to My Playlist button under the interstitial. •Click the title of a video in: –A featured playlist. –The video selection list in a program guide. –A list of results under the Search tab. Then, under the preview panel, click Add to My Playlist.
Step 2	Do either of the following: •To add the video to your personal playlist and refresh the list to show how it has changed, click OK. •To discard your changes, click Cancel.

Removing Videos from Your Personal Playlist

Step 1	Do one of the following: •If you are playing a video, click Video Info. Then, in the video overview, click Remove from My Playlist. •If an interstitial is playing for a video that you added already to your personal playlist, click the Remove from My Playlist button under the interstitial. •Click the title of a video in: –A featured playlist. –The video selection list in a program guide. –A list of results under the Search tab. Then, under the preview panel, click Remove from My Playlist.
Step 2	Do one of the following: •To remove the video from your playlist and refresh the list to show how it has changed, click OK. •To discard your changes, click Cancel.

Working with the Program Guide

The Program Guide helps you to pinpoint the videos that interest you most. You start in a broad category, narrow your selection to a program, then select the video to watch.

Step 1	Click the Program Guide tab, then click Select a Category. The category menu expands to show the complete list of available categories.
Step 2	Click a category in the list to see the complete list of programs that it contains.
Step 3	Click Select a Program. The selection area expands to show the complete list of programs in the category you selected.
Step 4	Click a program in the list to see the complete list of videos that it contains.
Step 5	Do either of the following: •Double-click a video title in the list. •Click a video title one time in the list. Then, when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.

Searching for a Video

Keyword-based searches are sometimes an especially efficient way to find videos on your Video Portal. To return any useful matches, the keywords that you enter must be the same ones that your Video Portal administrators and content managers used to describe a video when they made it available for you to watch.

Step 1	Click the Search tab, enter one or more keywords in the field, then click the magnifying glass icon or press Enter. A list of matching videos appears as a list under the keyword field.
Step 2	To watch a video, do either of the following: •Double-click a video title in the list. •Click a video title one time in the list. Then, when the preview panel expands under the navigation area, click Play Video.