Unreal Media Server

paranone · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Hi,

So I work at a (small) computer store and we have videos showing on all the computers we have in the store but what I would like to do (thanks to Unreal Media Server Smile

) is instead of copying all the files to each computer, have the same videos multicasted to all computers at the same time.

My problem is I cannot get the videos to be always displayed fullscreen either with the Streaming Media Player or the ActiveX control (which I understand are the only 2 ways to playback a multicast stream - unicast is a no no as it takes too much bandwith with hd videos).
The player goes back to windowed mode at every new video and the ActiveX control tends to mess up when I make it go back to fullscreen at every new video using ViewFullscreenSize in the OnStart function without the if statement. It shows only the corner of the video, although if I put it fullscreen manually at every new video it doesn't seem to have any problem... (but then that is not a solution).

I would be very thankful if someone could come up with a solution as I've been fiddling with the program for a few days and it's the only problem that prevents me from using it.

Jon

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

What you can do is:

Play using Streaming Media Player.
Instead of using "Full Screen" mode, maximize the player.
That gives you almost the same effect as "Full Screen".

You will see that when player is maximized, it will stay maximized forever, without switching to normal size on the next movie in playlist.

Admin

Admin · Site Admin Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 488

Here is the webpage that plays PlayList in FullScreen mode:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="umediaplayer5.js"></script>
<script language="javascript">

//Global player object
var po;
var bFirstTime = 1;

function Play(player)
{
try
{
var o = document.getElementById(player);

o.UseTCP();
o.UseMediaServer("localhost");
o.UseFilePlaylist("test");

InitPlayer(player);

o.Play();
window.status = "Connecting...";
}
catch (e)
{
var code = "Play(\"" + player + "\")";
setTimeout(code, 1000);
window.status = "Player object wasn't created";
}
}

//Specify which events we want to subscribe to
function InitPlayer(player)
{
var pobj = new PlayerObject(player);
pobj.object = document.getElementById(player);

pobj.eventHandler.OnStart = OnStart;
pobj.eventHandler.OnStop = OnStop;
pobj.eventHandler.OnPause = OnPause;
pobj.eventHandler.OnResize = OnResize;
pobj.initPlayer();
}

function OnLoad()
{
Play("player");
}

// Only for Mozilla browsers
function OnInstall()
{
alert("Installation succeeded, the web page will now reload.");
window.location.reload();
}

function OnStart()
{
var o = document.getElementById("player");
window.status = "Playing";

if(bFirstTime == 1)
{
o.ViewFullScreenSize();
bFirstTime = 0;
}
}

function OnStop(toBeContinued)
{
window.status = "Stopped";
if(!toBeContinued)
{
var o = document.getElementById("player");
o.width = 320;
o.height = 240;
}
else
bFirstTime = 1;
}

function OnPause(state)
{
if (state == 0)
window.status = "Paused";
else if (state == 1)
window.status = "Buffering...";
else if (state == 2)
window.status = "Seeking...";
}

function OnResize(width, height)
{

}
</script>
</head>

<body bgcolor="Gainsboro" onload="OnLoad()">
<script language="javascript">

// Create player with width=320, height=240, and id="player".
po = new PlayerObject("player");
po.createPlayer(320, 240);

</script>
</body>

</html>

paranone · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 2

Thank you very much, the html code works perfectly!
(But please stop telling people that maximizing the window is almost the same as playing fullscreen...)

Now I noticed something, although it's not a problem for me because I don't need it, but the sound doesn't seem to play right on any of the videos I multicasted, either with the player or with the activex control, is it a known problem?

Jon