.. _user_admin_settings: ======================== Settings Admin Interface ======================== Analytics --------- Tracking code should be in the format UA-xxxx-xx. See the `Google site `_ for help. Leave the tracking code blank to disable Google Analytics. Categories ---------- Categories, in MediaDrop, are created by the admins to represent whatever categorization scheme they wish to employ. Like Tags, Categories are considered when searching for media and when displaying related media. Unlike Tags, Categories have their own section in the frontend that that provides a way for users to browse the available Categories, and to explore the media in each Category. Categories can be nested. A parent category is considered to contain all of the media contained by its child categories. Each Media item can belong to any number of categories. The Categories for each Media item must be assigned by administrators, there is no way for users using the frontend upload form to set Categories. Comments -------- If Akismet is enabled, spam will be discarded before saving it for moderator approval. In order to enable Akismet anti-spam protection, you must sign up for an Akismet API key at the Akismet website. Enable Akismet anti-spam protection by entering your API key in this form. The Akismet URL should be set to the 'blog url' you signed up with. If left empty, this will default to your application root URL. Display ------- *Rich Text Editing:* The use of TinyMCE is not strictly XHTML compliant, but it works in FireFox >= 1.5, Safari >= 3, Internet Explorer >= 5.5. A user's browser must have JavaScript enabled in order to use TinyMCE. If JavaScript is not enabled, *Player Selection--Theoretical Background:* All audio and video files can be characterized by two features: 1. The container format, which determines how the data is organized within the file. 2. The codecs, which determine how your audio or video is represented as data for the computer. Often, particular container formats are closely coupled with codecs. For instance, if one were to see a .m4a file, one could fairly safely assume that it used a XXX container format, and contained audio data encoded by a XXX codec. Audio and Video can be played via HTML5 in some browsers if the browser supports the container format and codecs used in the media file. Audio and Video can be played via Flash in some browsers if Flash supports the container format and codecs used in the media file, and if the browser, in turn, supports Flash. MediaDrop has a built in list of which browsers support Flash, which containers and codecs Flash supports, and which containers and codecs are supported by which browsers through HTML5. MediaDrop also has built in logic that will guess the container format and applicable codecs for a given media file based on its filename. Together, this means that if you have multiple audio or video files attatched to a Media object, MediaDrop can take into account the capabilities of your users' browsers, the available files, and your (the admin's) player preferences, and serve the best combination of files and players to each user, individually. *Player Selection--Consequences:* A useable Flash player will be found if: 1. the user's browser supports Flash 2. and there is a media file associated with the media object that Flash is capable of playing. A useable HTML5 player will be found if: 1. the user's browser supports the HTML5