[Red5] New Flex 2 Video Player

Tue Nov 13 11:02:26 PST 2007

thanks for this posting.. http://red5.fatdot.com/
if we have questions on configuring tomcat I hope you can field them for
at least the next week. I Have been trying to get tomcat setup with red5
as an application with some problems.  

regards,
harley  

 -----Original Message-----
From: red5-bounces at osflash.org [mailto:red5-bounces at osflash.org] On
Behalf Of John Kirby
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 5:18 PM
To: red5 at osflash.org
Subject: Re: [Red5] New Flex 2 Video Player

Lenny - 

Cool... have you thought to changing the aspect ratio on the fly so
different video formats can be played in optimum format?

I did some thing like this for my ski school class (In HD!):

<http://infinitymedialabs.com/copper/choppers/2007
<hhtp://infinitymedialabs.com/copper/choppers/2007> >

Click on the videos (there is a built in 10 second buffer).   The Final
Cut pro remastered to flv format are pretty cool.

.j

On Nov 7, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Lenny Sorey wrote:

A couple of weeks ago I release a Flex 2 Video Streaming Player or what
I thought was a video streaming
player.

Jake Hilton and Dan Rossi "From Down Under" Questioned me as to whether
this player was
Progressive Video or True Net Streaming. 

I'd like to thanks Jake and Dan for pointing out the Errs of my ways. :
).

I thought I was right and had found the right combination for
VideoDisplay Components and the Video Class.

Seems I was wrong, the first real time I check to see if the meta files
were being created. In addition, I could not
get the videos metaData from the VideoDisplay components very well
either.

I went back and gutted the app and rewrote it to a true net streaming
video player and can now get all the
videos metaData (if it is there) that I need.

You can see both (progressive and streaming) video players at the
following url:

http://red5.fatdot.com

The video player you will see is available in 3 different formats. They
are as follows:

1. Reads an XML file and plays videos.
2. The progressive download and play you can see at the above url.
(potential security problems with this option)
3. The true net streaming option which can see at the above url as well.

The last two options have a MySQL database where the video descriptions,
flv reference and image locations are stored.

I am going to make the XML version and the progressive download options
available now if anyone wants
both the Java and Flex sources for either player.

I will make the streaming server video player available a little after I
have finish with some final items I want to
add to it.

Here a breakdown on the XML and Progressive download Players.

XML:

Pros:

1.	XML loads quickly 

2.	Plays nicely and your video references, descriptions and image
references reside in the XML file. 

3.	Works with nc.connect( "rtmp://red5.fatdot.com/oflaDemo"); right
out of the box. : )

Cons:

1.	Can't play videos from the streams folder. You will have to
create a folder beneath the demos folder to place your videos. 

2.	One nice thing about this option is you can created as many
folder to drill down under the demos folder to try to protect your 
videos. I created a playlist named _24_playlist4.xml and place it in the
demos/streams/offbeat folder to try to make it a little more 
secure.

Progressive Download:

Pros:

1.	It works and can read from the streams folder if the security is
removed from the streams folder in red5's web.xml folder.
to read from the streams folder I had to reference the videos like "
myVideolrs = " http://red5.fatdot.com/streams/"+thevideo
<http://red5.fatdot.com/streams/> ;
when clicking on a video to play. 

2.	Many nice components in VideoDisplay that will pretty the video
player. One neat feature is the stateHandler function for VideoEvents.

Cons: 

1.	It does not stream from the streams folder. It will not create
the videos meta file. So, don't count on this. 

2.	One of the biggest drawbacks is the timer and metaData reading.
even though I could read the video's metaData 
info, I had a hard time of getting the timer to read the videos duration
info. Maybe someone can have better luck with 
than me. : )

Platform is as follows:

Windows 2000
Java 1.6_02
RED5  - Trunk 2162
Tomcat 6.0.14
Mod_jk connector
MySQL 5.0.14
Apache 2.2.4
PHP 5+

Any feedback on the Streaming Video Player would be appreciated. Be glad
to answer any questions.

Regard,

Lenny

On 10/23/07, Lenny Sorey <lrsorey at gmail.com> wrote:

Nope,

It's Streaming.

This is a combination of Netstream and VideoDisplay events.

Lenny

On 10/23/07, Jake Hilton <red5 at jakehilton.com > wrote: 

Looks like it's all progressive video right?

Looks like a great player though.

Jake

On 10/23/07, Lenny Sorey <lrsorey at gmail.com> wrote:
> I completed for now a new Flex 2 & Flex 3 Video Player. 
>
> Please give it a try and let me know what you think. 
>
> Just realized that I didn't set a default item for the playlist.
>
> Just click on any grid item to view the Title, Producer and
Description as 
> well as the image for
> each respective video. 
>
> To enlarge the video screen please click on the icon next to the clock
in
> the the upper right hand corner.
>
> So far this player is loading the video playlist from a MySql table. 
> 
> I am still working on this project. I am still learning about
PlayheadTime
> as you can see when you click on Spider Man
> as I am not sure the video length is no encoded into the videos
metadata. 
>
> Here's the the url:
>
> http://red5.fatdot.com/FatDotMediaPlayer.html
<http://red5.fatdot.com/FatDotMediaPlayer.html> 
>
> The RED5 platform:
>
> Windows 2000 
> Java 1.6_02
> Tomcat 6.0.14 Mod_jk
> Apache 2.2.4
> MySQL 5.0.14
> RED5 Trunk 2412
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Lenny
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