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For both stages, a coordination with the GeoServer team is necessary. Please let us them know if you intend to host your media data with the AWI GeoServer infrastructure.

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When encoding photos and videos for the web, there is a trade-off between visual quality and data reduction. On the one hand, the media should be reduced in file size to achieve the best possible loading speed. On the other hand, the visual quality should not be degraded to the point of introducing unwanted artifacts.   There are also technical parameters to consider that have a direct impact on browser performance and compatibility. To get an idea about the most important technical web video parameters, see see Recommendation - Video Proxies Parameters.

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Media files tend to be data intensive. Computing them on demand, as in the case of the image broker, might be challenge to the infrastructure, especially for high server loads.  The The following recommendations are intended to reduce load times and contribute to a positive user experience.

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HTTP/2: Activate HTTP/2 to improve page loading speed, among otherse.g., via multiple request requests over one connection, binary protocol and compression of request headers.

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Additionally, photos can be integrated in the sidebar. By providing URLs to images in multiple resolutions, responsive image loading can be used. This is further supported by the lightbox that opens when the an image is clicked, thus providing an enlarged view in adaptive resolution.

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URL scheme

The gallery's content dependents depends on the URL query parameters. The parameters are composed as follows.

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