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VLC Player embedded

Asked by AndyC

With reference to question #84244 - is this still an issue? I am attempting to display UDP multicast streams in VLC using their ActiveX plugin and the following code:

<body Bgcolor=black>
<center>
<OBJECT classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921"
    codebase="http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab"
       width="1366" height="703" id="vlc" events="True">
 <param name="Src" value="udp://@236.1.1.x:1234" />
 <param name="ShowDisplay" value="True" />
 <param name="AutoLoop" value="False" />
 <param name="AutoPlay" value="True" />
 </OBJECT>
</CENTER>
</body>

The stream displays initially, but after a fairly random amount of time it disappears leaving just a black screen. Other content in the layout is still displayed fine. At that point, if you make a minor change to the layout so that the client refreshes, you see a quick flash of white (presumably IE) but still no picture. Rebooting the client gets the picture back for a while, but only for between 2 mins and about an hour.
I have tried the code embedded and also hosted on another webserver and called as a webpage by Xibo, with the same effect. If I save the code to a local HTML and run it in IE without using Xibo, the stream stays up for ever.
I'm using client 1.0.7 (was having a few probs with 1.0.5 and 1.0.7 seems much better in my situation) and server 1.0.6.

Thanks!!

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

All Xibo is doing is putting a borderless windowless IE instance on the screen so it should be the same as using IE.

Each time your layout expires it'll delete the IE window and create it again new - so presumably you have a suitably long duration on your embedded HTML media object to keep the layout from expiring?

Beyond that I've no experience with VLC plugin. On the one occasion I've tried to use it for restreaming audio feeds it would cut out every few minutes - I never could make it work.

In terms of the original question you reference, the work for that was done in 1.0.5 - there's no major difference now between embedded html type and putting the same code on a webserver somewhere and using a webpage media type to embed it.

Alex

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AndyC (andrew-coster-nulc) said : 		#2

Thanks for you're reply Alex.

So even if there is nothing else scheduled in the timeline for the region containing the HTML, it will still reload at the end of the duration time? I'm pretty sure they are all set to 300s, but I guess this could be what is happening. Is there a maximum duration I can set?

Thanks

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Dan Garner (dangarner) said : 		#3

It shouldn't make any difference but your embed code does not need a body
tag as there is already one served by Xibo (which will take on the
background colour/image).

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#4

Correct. I don't know what the maximum is. Alex

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AndyC (andrew-coster-nulc) said : 		#5

Just to say that it was the duration that was causing the dropouts. set it to however many seconds are in 7 days (worked it out then, cant remember now!) and no drops yet! Thanks for your help! Incidentally, we now have the first 9 of our 40-odd displays using Xibo if you want to add them to the totals!

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#6

The totals update automatically if you have phone home turned on, otherwise we can't include you.

Alex

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