Forum user: greener

hi,
I need to find a solution to track minutes viewed in an ipad app that will be using flowplayer... any suggestion? thanks! rg

thanks Christian, i'll give it a try. rg

so by the lack of response I think I might be missing something as this seems like it should be a HUGE issue.

here is the situation, on an ipad or any mobile device, users are sometimes connected via wifi and sometimes through cell (3g or whatever). users delivering to mobile devices (especially the ipad and or other tablets) should deliver a different bitrate for connected and not-connected users.

while I understand that html5 does not support bit rate switching (yet , or maybe it does now?), doing a simple javascript bandwidth check and delivering the correct bitrate should be straightforward and possible? no switching instream, just deliver the right one..

possible? cheers rg

As this is a flash based plugin any workarounds or other suggestions?

Thanks. Thanks...

Sounds good to me, but I might have to come up and hand deliver it to Tero/ Anssi :)

Received mine from Google. They just away 10,000 units to developers and will probably give away more
http://www.gtvhub.com/2010/10/26/google-giving-away-10000-google-tv-devices-to-developers/

cheers

rg

Just watched one of our videos on Google TV and while it looks great (it's just chrome on TV), the remote did not work. We are also developing apps for many other internet connected tv's as well. So hopefully we will see a plugin soon that will allow us to configure external remotes. Sorry for double postinghttp://flowplayer.org/forum/6/33432 of similar request...

Any workaround or way to load configuration or ??

rg

ok so there has been a few threads about audio sync issues but none seem to relate to my issue and I am stumped!

I am using Handbrake (which uses ffmpeg) to encode using x264 with mp4 container. The mp4 encode plays perfect using local VLC or other video player yet when streaming with flowplayer the audio is out of sync slightly but noticeable. You can see the test player at
http://bit.ly/bkKXif (clip is in spanish but you don't need to speak spanish to see the sync issue)
source and final fps is the same and source is mpeg2 container with MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio.

it's not flowplayer in that I tried JW player as well and also out of sync... any ideas?? thanks rg

Hi,
Any clever solutions or suggestions on how to track stream run time? So if we have a 90 minute film, how to setup events to figure how long the user watched before exiting? And to further complicate the issue to be very precise it would be nice to capture ip address so that we could take into account those people exiting for a popcorn break and continuing at a later time.

thanks...

Randall

hi all,
We are using Cloudfront streaming and BW Check in order to serve one of three resolutions and the problem is that the switch does not happen for a long time - 1 minute or more and sometimes not at all. My test connection is very fat (16 mb down and 21 up) so I should see the largest one... Can someone tell me whether the "checkonstart" option works on cloudfront (FM). I tried it and did not make a difference. Also the "onstreamswitch" works occasionally and not always so that is puzzling. And last, seems like this plugin is based on Average Bitrate Rate encodes as it specifies the target bitrate and we are using Handbrake and CRF (constant rate which is good way to go for x264) to encode. could this be a factor?
here is the code:

 / <script>
        flowplayer('player',
        {
            src: 'http://butaca.tv/feeds/amazon/swf/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.4.swf',
            version: [10, 0],
            expressInstall: 'http://butaca.tv/feeds/amazon/swf/expressinstall.swf',
        },
        {
            key: '12345',
            canvas: {
                backgroundGradient: 'none',
                backgroundColor: '#000'
            },
            clip: {
                provider: 'rtmp',
                urlResolvers: 'bwcheck',
                scaling: 'fit',
                bitrates: [
                    {
                        url: "mp4:file1-b.mp4",
                        bitrate: 480,
                        width: 480,                        
                        isDefault: true
                    },
                    {
                        url: "mp4:file1-d.mp4",
                        bitrate: 800,
                        width: 640                        
                    },
                    {
                        url: "mp4:file1-f.mp4",
                        bitrate: 1200,
                        width: 800                        
                    }
                ]                
            },
            plugins: {
                rtmp: {
                    url: 'flowplayer.rtmp-3.2.3.swf',
                    netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://xxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st'
                },
                bwcheck: {
                    url: 'flowplayer.bwcheck-3.2.2.swf',
                    serverType: 'fms',
                    dynamic: true,
                    netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://xxxxx.cloudfront.net/cfx/st',
                    onStreamSwitch: function (bitrate, streamName) {                        
                        $f().getPlugin('content').setHtml("Playing now: " + streamName);
                    }
                },
                viral: {                    
                    url: 'flowplayer.viralvideos-3.2.2.swf',                            
                    share: {
                        description: 'Amazon CloudFront',
                        livespaces: false,
                        orkut: false,
                        stubmbleupon: false,
                        bebo: false
                    },                    
                    email: null
                },
                content: {
                    url: 'flowplayer.content-3.2.0.swf',
                    top: 0, left: 0, width: 250, height: 150,
                    backgroundColor: 'transparent', backgroundGradient: 'none', border: 0,
                    textDecoration: 'outline',
                    style: {
                        body: {
                            fontSize: 14,
                            fontFamily: 'Arial',
                            textAlign: 'center',
                            color: '#ffffff'
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        });

Considering industry trends it's clear that flowplayer is going to be increasingly the video container that we watch on television. Especially with open APIs/SDKs on platforms like Boxee and now Roku

Anyone have any experience on hooking Windows Media Center Remotes (MCE)to control Flowplayer??

Randall

Rich,
Have not but am talking to someone now. Will let you know. If Anssi or Tero see this, it sure would be nice to give possible service providers a place to list their contact info. That way we could just contact people directly without doing this awkward "dance" :).

It would be a nice benefit to those looking for work and also for those that need work. win, win...

This marketplace I think is useful if someone has a finished plugin or skin and would like to offer to others but not to connect people (my opinion). But those looking for work might be the exception in this crowd (don't know).

best,

Randall

Looking to build ongoing relationship with an experienced flowplayer programmer. Excellent Jquery experience required. I have an immediate project. Send a note and I'll give more info. Randall
info at verandaentertainment.com

Has anyone tried and successfully configured the Secure Streaming plugin and SimpleCDN? SimpleCDN uses Wowza... thanks rg

Liam did a great job with that tutorial but if you don't want to pull your hair out compiling ffmpeg on your server, you might check out www.heywatch.com or www.encoding.com (I use heywatch for my shortform video). it's a dime (in US $$) per encode or .20 for two pass and they have many pre-configured profiles. Or if you want to encode locally, try Handbrake or Megui (more complicated but fantastic encodes).

Just learned from SimpleCDN that their BWCheck is deployed on their servers and available. From tech support "application is named bwcheck and on our edge servers". And according to simpleCDN, the app works exactly like the Wowza app so Wowza documentation should apply...

I'm sure those of us that use SimpleCDN would love to see if someone could make this work with Flowplayer...

Post your example if you figure it out! (or do we need to wait until FP 3.1?) Randall