[Laszlo-dev] Changeset: Improved video support and added video components and demos.

[Sarah Allen]

sounds good.  Checkin approved!


On Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at  4:12 PM, Don Hopkins wrote:

> I've written a README.txt explaining the nuances of the videolibrary:
>
> /* X_LZ_COPYRIGHT_BEGIN 
> ****************************************************
>  * Copyright 2007 Laszlo Systems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved. 
> *
>  * Use is subject to license terms. 
> *
>  * X_LZ_COPYRIGHT_END 
> ******************************************************/
>
>
> README.txt explaining OpenLaszlo videolibrary demo:
>
>
> This demo requires that you have either the Flash Media Server or the
> Red5 server installed in a directory whose name does not contain
> spaces, and the "videolibrary.jsp" file must be configured with the
> path and url pointing to the content.
>
> To run this videolibrary demo, you must configure the 
> "videolibrary.jsp"
> script to tell it where the Flash Media Server or Red5 application
> streams directory is on disk, and what its URL is.
>
> In the file "videolibrary.jsp", configure the path in
> "libraryDirectory" and the url in "libraryUrl".
>
> If you are running the server on Windows, make sure the file name is
> in the correct Windows format. Note that you must install the Flash
> Media Server or Red5 application directory in a path that has no space
> (so "Program Files" is right out).
>
>
>     // This is the RTMP server's directory containing the
>     // FLV video files.
>     public String libraryDirectory =
>         //"/usr/local/src/red5/webapps/test/instance1/streams/";
>         "/home/fms/applications/test/streams/instance1/";
>
>     // This is the URL to the RTMP server publishing the library.
>     // You should also configure the src attribute of the 
> rtmpconnection
>     // in videolibrary.lzx to be the same url.
>     public String libraryUrl =
>         "rtmp://localhost/test/instance1/";
>
>
> You may enhance the viewing experience by creating files with metadata
> in the library directory, that have the same base name as the ".flv"
> videos, but with the suffix ".meta". The metadata filse should contain
> a list of "key:value" pairs, one on each line. The keys supported are
> "title" (the title of the video), "description" (the description of
> the video), and "thumbnailtime" (the time in seconds into the video to
> display as the thumbnail). For example, the file "good-dog.meta" could
> contain:
>
> title:Good Dog
> description:You're a very good dog!
> thumbnailtime:6
>
>
> Sarah Allen wrote:
>> Don,
>>
>> I tried running the videolibrary demo but the connection failed to my 
>> local server.   I did see a nice error displayed in the app :)  Did 
>> you make a readme that says how to set up local environment to run 
>> this?  If so, I didnt' see one.
>>
>> rtmpconnection #rtc _onStatus NetConnection.Connect.Failed
>> connection failed to rtmp:localhost/test/instance1 : connection 
>> failed
>> WARNING: connection failed bad url
>> mediastream play «mediastream#1| .ms» _flashstream null type null url 
>> null
>>
>> From the test setup, I have in my FMS applications folder:
>> applications\test\streams\instance1
>>
>> I also tried adding:
>> applications\test\instance1
>>
>> no luck :(
>>
>> Sarah
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 6, 2007 at  1:40 PM, Don Hopkins wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a link to the new changeset with 2007 copyrights:
>>>
>>> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/patches/20070105-dhopkins-5.tar
>>>
>>>     -Don
>>>
>>
>