This group answers frequently asked questions regarding the new Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing Program, exclusively for military spouses, families, and soldiers. The free service is open to personnel from all branches of the military community to include: retirees, national guard, reservists, veterans and their family members.
Sharing the following information on the Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing Website or Message Board Forum is a violation of OPSEC and may be grounds for prosecution by the Federal Government:
Names, locations and specific identifying information about Military personnel, employees and/or their family members
Personal information including compilations of names of personnel assigned to overseas, sensitive, or routinely deployable units
The identity of units planned for deployments is confidential until an official announcement of the deployment is made.
Specific geographic location of deployed units
Details of Military participation in operations
Information that is “For Official Use Only” (FOUO)
Analysis and recommendations concerning lessons learned which reveal sensitive Military operations, exercises or vulnerabilities
Reference to unclassified information that would reveal sensitive movements of Military assets or the location of units, installations or personnel where uncertainty regarding location is an element of Military plan or program
Technical information that can be used or be adapted for use to design, engineer, produce, manufacture, operate, repair, overhaul, or reproduce any Military or space equipment or technology concerning such equipment
Unclassified information pertaining to classified programs.
Below is a link to an online briefing on OPSEC from Fort Riley, it's a PowerPont slide that according to Fort Riley has been approved by Fort Riley's G3 to provide to all: http://www.vsscyberoffice.com/Operations_Security_for_Families.ppt - Updated: November 11, 2006
The Military Spouse Video Sharing service can be used by all members of the United States military community, including: retired members, reservists, veterans, national guard, Coast Guard, their spouses, dependents, and extended family members. - Updated: November 8, 2006
No. Military Spouse Channel may at anytime, request proof of military affiliation documentation, such as copy of uniformed services or military identification card, retirement orders and/or DD Form 214.
We've tried to keep the sign up process as simple and easy as possible. Once you've setup your user account. You can edit your profile and include your base affiliation there. - Updated: November 6, 2006
Step 1. Logon, upload your video as usual. Step 2. Goto your group and click "Add Videos" Step 3. Locate the video you'd like add and click the "Add to Group" button - Updated: October 30, 2006
Videos are in most cases rejected or removed from the MSC Video Sharing website due to apparent copyright infringement or the staff has determined the video to be inappropriate for the MSC Video Sharing audience.
If your video has been rejected or removed, you should receive an email outlining the reasons. Be sure to use royalty-free music in your videos!
We're so sorry to see you go, but if you'd like to cancel your Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing account, please contact us at the support help desk: http://vsscyberoffice.com/cgi-bin/ttx/ttx.cgi and we'll take care of it for you. - Updated: October 22, 2006
Yes you can. Just go to the share details located beneath your video, locate "Embeddable Player" and copy the embed link inside the box and paste accordingly on your personal homepage or blog.
Sharing your videos with family and friends is pretty easy, just go to the share details located beneath your video, copy the Video URL (Permalink) in the box where it says "(E-mail or link it).
See graphic below:
Create a new email and paste the url into the message area. The receiving party only needs to click on the link to view. - Updated: October 19, 2006
Try saving video to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format with 320x240 resolution and mp3 audio. Ensure that your video meets these specifications before uploading. - Updated: October 19, 2006
Military Spouse Channel Video Share accepts videos in a number of different formats from digital cameras, web cams, camcorders, and cell phones in avi, mov, wmv, quicktime, real video, mpeg, and mpg. - Updated: October 19, 2006
Videos can be no longer than 10 minutes in length and 100MB in size. If you have a video that is long, we HIGHLY recommend that you slice the video into several segments of 3-5 minutes. Long videos require more compression to meet the 100MB size limit, and the quality will go down as the length of the video goes up.
In simple terms, smaller is better. - Updated: October 19, 2006
Yes. Military Spouse Channel's Video Sharing site is NOT for people under the age of 13. No exceptions. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use this service. Military youth ages 13-17 are welcome, if they have permission from a parent or legal guardian. Have fun and be safe. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Check your Internet connection speed. For the best viewing experience, you'll need a high-speed connection with at least 500+Kbps. - Updated: October 19, 2006
All videos are streamed through a Flash player, so you will need to have the latest version of Macromedia Flash installed on your computer. To download it, please visit Adobe.com - Updated: September 28, 2006
First, check the volume controls on your computer to ensure they are adjusted properly. Also, be sure to increase the volume on external video players like, Real Player or Windows Media. This may have an effect on your computer's master volume levels.
Finally, check to ensure that your computer system meets these requirements for running video:
Macromedia Flash Player 7.0+ plug-in Windows XP / 2000 or higher with latest updates installed Mac OS X 10.3 or higher Firefox 1.5+, IE 6.0+, or Safari 1.0+ or later Broadband / High-speed Internet connection with 500+ Kbps - Updated: September 28, 2006
The transfer of video / audio from one destination to another takes time. If you have a high-speed internet connection, and a video file less than 100MB expect the upload to take anywhere from 1-5mins for every 1MB.
Keep in mind, however, the variation in connection speeds. If your video is very large, it may take a long time to upload.
We highly recommend that you keep your videos size short 1-5 minutes in length. If you have a large video, we recommend breaking it down into small 3-5 minute chunks. - Updated: October 19, 2006
Our goal is to provide and maintain a family-friendly community to safely watch and share videos. Members who consistently abuse our terms of use policies are banned from the community. Secondly, MSC's Video Sharing community is monitored around the clock in order to maintain a safe online video sharing experience. - Updated: September 28, 2006
If you suspect that someone has uploaded your copyrighted content without your expressed permission, please contact us immediately at webmaster at militaryspousechannel.com. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Content on MSC's Video sharing website is posted by our members. We make it pretty clear in our terms of use and during the upload process that member's MUST own the copyright to the videos they post or have permission from the copyright holder to share their content. We take copyright issues very seriously and encourage copyright holders to notify us immediately if they have any dispute about specific videos. The Military Spouse Channel staff will work and cooperate with copyright holders and their legal representatives to take down any infringing content immediately.
Repeat offenders who continue to abuse our copyright policy and terms of use will have their member account suspended indefinitely - Updated: October 19, 2006
At Military Spouse Channel, we respect the rights of copyright holders and publishers and require all members to affirm that they hold the copyright to or have permission to use the content that they upload. Upon notification that a member's pubished content infringes upon another party's copyright, the member's account may be terminated indefinitely and the content will be removed from the Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing website.
Read our copyright policy. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Our goal is to maintain a family-friendly community that can be enjoyed by all. If you come across a video that you feel is inappropriate based on our terms of use, contact us immediately at abuse at www.militaryspousechannel.com - Updated: October 19, 2006
At the present time, No. The only limit is 100MB in length per video. Upload as many videos as you like and have fun sharing your videos with the world! - Updated: September 28, 2006
Great question and it depends on your connection speed to the Internet and the size of the video, it can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to upload a video.
Typically, if you have a high-speed Internet connection you can expect the upload to take somewhere between 1-5mins for every 1MB. However, the experience is different for every user because of the variation in Internet connection speeds. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Military Spouse Channel Video Share accepts video files from most digital cameras and camcorders, and cell phones in the .AVI, .MOV, WMA, Quicktime, MPEG, Real Video, MPG file formats. - Updated: September 28, 2006
There is a 100MB size limit. Keep in mind that the quality of your video will go down as the length of the video goes up. We highly recommend keeping video sizes small 5 minutes or less. You can always create and upload more videos.
Videos stay on MSC Video Share until the member who uploaded them chooses to take them down. Videos which violate the terms of use and or have been flagged as inappropriate may be taken down by immediately by Military Spouse Channel staff. - Updated: September 28, 2006
You'll need to have a device that can capture digital video, this could be a web cam, digital camcorder, digital camera, or even your cell phone! You then copy the movie to you computer, and you can either upload it as-is or edit the video using software such as iMovie or Windows MovieMaker to add titles and/or special effects. - Updated: September 28, 2006
MSC Video Share members rate videos they like. The MSC staff reviews highly-rated and recent videos for consideration in the ' Featured Videos' section. - Updated: September 28, 2006
1. Login to your MSC Video Share member account. 2. Click on the 'My Profile' link under the 'Home' menu. 3. Change your password and make the necessary updates to your profile. 4. When done, click "Update profile" - Updated: September 28, 2006
Login, go to "My Videos" and click on the 'Remove Video' button next to the video you'd like to remove. You can only remove videos that you have uploaded. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Tags are keywords that describe each video. For example, a cooking video might be tagged with "cooking," "food," and "gourmet." Members who enjoy cooking can then search for any of those terms and that video will appear in their search results. Tags also help locate new videos that you might like to watch. Note: The larger the tag appears in the list, the more videos use that particular tag. - Updated: September 28, 2006
Watching videos on MSC Video Share is pretty easy, simply visit the site, browse the channels which interest you and click on the play button. To save a video in your favorites, you need to sign up to become a channel member, and then click the 'Add to Favorites' link underneath the video(s) you want to watch later. - Updated: November 7, 2006
Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing is a free online video sharing service created exclusively for military families to view and share videos that have been uploaded by community members. - Updated: November 7, 2006
Yes. The Military Spouse Channel Video Sharing Service is open to all US Military Service Branches and users MUST fall under one of the following categories:
US Active Duty Member
US Active Duty Military Spouse
Dependent of Active Duty Member 13 years or older
Military Retiree
Retired Military Spouse
National Guard Member - Spouse or Dependent of US National Guard Member
US Reservist - Spouse or Dependent of Reservist
US Veteran - Spouse or Dependent of US Veteran
Extended Family Members of a Soldier and/or Spouse.
- Updated: October 19, 2006