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do not start a local media play in a new window

Asked by jian

 I am trying a very big video file in my Xibo client on Ubuntu, the Xibo version 1.4.2. I created a region, and used a webpage to play the local video file ,file:///vedio file, the problem is the file is always playing in a new window but not embedded in the layout, I really don't know how to avoid it. Can anyone help me? thanks a lot.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#1

You need to use the local video media type for this. Just put the path to
the video file in the media options.

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jian (huangjian0209) said : 		#2

Thank you Alex. We're now trying it as a local video media type, but it's not playing.

What's the correct syntax of the file path?
Like this: //home/username/filename.mp4
or maybe: /home/username/filename.mp4
We tried each, but it still doesn't play.

Our server is Windows-based. Could that be a problem?

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#3

Just /path/to/file.mp4

If it's not working you need to look at the log to see why

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jian (huangjian0209) said : 		#4

Hi, Alex

I checked and found below line in the log file:

LOG: 2013-06-24 14:57:39 (.frameHandle:4497) 1 error A runtime error occurred: '/opt/xibo/pyclient/client/python/%2Fhome%2Fjian%2Fdes.mp4': Error opening file ( Num: -2)

The location of the file is /home/jian/des.mp4
Seems the path is wrong.

Could you please let me know how to solve this?
And do you need the full log file?

Thanks a lot for your help.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#5

Hi

It looks like the server is sending down the video URI encoded. That's
probably just a server side change I missed. I'll patch it and give you a
new file to try.

Alex

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Best Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#6

Please try replacing your plugins/media/LocalvideoMedia.py with this:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~alexharrington/xibo/pyclient-localvideofix/download/alex%40longhill.org.uk-20130624192546-cqijue0qlaiyqomw/localvideomedia.py-20120709163638-ivsqq2shbg0w0hq7-1/LocalvideoMedia.py

Alex

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jian (huangjian0209) said : 		#7

Thanks Alex Harrington, that solved my question.

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Tuan Le Doan (tuan-fetk52) said : 		#8

Hi

I don't know what is the local video type? I have a m3u8 file and i want to show live stream on Xibo Client. So how can i show it? Because it's always show on new window.

Thank you!

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#9

m3u8 streams are supported on Android but I'm not sure they are on the
other clients