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UCF is a special file format you can use to display rich media files in WebEx sessions, as well as share any type of document, including PowerPoint and Excel files. UCF files can contain the following types of rich media content:
The WebEx Universal Communications Toolkit contains a plugin for Microsoft PowerPoint that you can use to create and share UCF files. In addition, the toolkit includes the WebEx Document Manager, which is an offline viewer for UCF files
For more information about the toolkit, see the UCF Getting Started guide on the Support page of your WebEx service site.
Your computer should meet the following system requirements:
Windows
Vista, 7, 8, 8.1
Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Adobe Flash player 11 or later (for Flash files)
Windows Media Player 11 or later (for most audio and video files)
QuickTime 7 or later (for QuickTime and other audio and video files not supported by Window Media Player)
Macintosh
To make sure that your computer is properly set up, when you schedule a meeting, select the Request that attendees verify rich media players option, and WebEx will ask your attendees to test their computers before they join your session.
WebEx uses a variety of techniques to minimize the impact to WebEx sessions. Although sharing rich media content can increase network utilization, under normal conditions, the impact to network traffic is negligible.
Yes. Ask your WebEx site administrator to disable UCF rich media for your service site.
Yes. Just make sure that all attendees have a media player installed on their computers; to prepare for a meeting where you use rich media content files:
Yes. To record the audio from UCF files at the same time that you record the audio from a teleconference, use a telephone transmit and receive patch such as the DynaMetric TMP-636 or Plantronics MX-10. This allows you to send the sound from your telephone through your computer sound card. To record video, make sure to turn off hardware acceleration (or video overlay) on your computer video card. For details, see the Windows Media Player online help.
Insert a URL to create a link to a file that is stored on a Web server or streaming server. When you insert a file, you are including a file that is stored on your computer or another computer in your network.
Note | If you insert a rich media content file and want to send it to another person, you must also send the file; "zipping" the presentation and the files together is an easy way to do this. If you use Document Manager from the UCF Toolkit, you can save the rich media content inside the UCF file (called embedding) when saving the UCF file. In this case, you need to send only the UCF file itself to the other person. |
WebEx UCF supports these types of files:
Media type |
Formats |
Operating System |
File extensions |
---|---|---|---|
Web pages |
Any supported by Internet Explorer, for example, HTML, ASP, PHP |
Windows |
*.html, *.htm, *.asp, *.php |
WebEx recordings |
WebEx WRF File |
Windows |
*.wrf |
Audio |
Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) Windows Media Audio (WMA) MPEG Audio Layer-3 MPEG Audio Layer-2 MPEG Audio Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) UNIX Audio (AU) Sound (SND) Audio for Windows (WAV) CD Audio (CDA) Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) |
Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows |
*.asf *.wma *.mp3 *.mp2, *.mpv2 *.mpa *.mid, *.midi, *.rmi *.au *.snd *.wav *.cda *.aiff, *.aif, *.aifc |
Video |
Advanced Streaming Format (ASF) Windows Media Video (WMV) Audio Video Interleave (AVI) MPEG QuickTime movie |
Windows Windows Windows Windows Mac OS, Windows |
*.asf *.wmv *.avi *.mpg, *.mpeg, *.m1v, *.mpe *.mov, *.qt |
Flash |
Flash |
Windows |
*swf |
Here is a list of known issues:
See Table 1.