Video

JJ I do have the MSE plugin I currently import PowerPoint presentations. I installed PowerPoint and someone walked me through a process to configure it but flash was configured when the machine arrived. I will give you guys a call.

To me this issue represents the problem that while the web interface can control both the carousel and cablecast, the two should be married better. I should be able to see a timeline of an entire day which would include my ability to click on a directly edit carousel information. There should be one place to upload or insert media and I should be able to schedule it from anywhere regardless of what type of media it is. The back end should then just intelligently decide where and how and what it needs to do to get that media to output to my channels. Tightrope does not handle going from a video I have in the carousel lineup to an mpeg scheduled to play from the video server gracefully. That's because it seems that cablecast and carousel are not working together. They need to be. If I want a video to play in the carousel lineup, then carousel needs to be smart enough to know not to play it if there is not enough time to complete the video before a regularly scheduled show begins. If I have a video uploaded into Carousel and then I want to schedule it and have it appear in the schedule, then I should be able to make sue of the same media file to do so. Not recreate it in Cablecast.

Am I off base here?

Michael Dube
FRED-TV
360 Elsbree Street
Fall River, MA 02720
508-675-8128

What file formats are natively supported for playing video within Carousel (e.g. AVI, MPEG, MPEG2, QuickTime, Flash, etc...)?

That's funny, because we can't even get the MPEG2 files created by the Tightrope encoder to play in Windows Media Player. That seemed odd to me to begin with, but even more so given what you said about Carousel supporting any standard WMP codec. Any clues what we're doing wrong?