VOD and JW Player

John

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Ok. Now I'm here!!!

So Nathan, its definitely possible to build an xml playlist by modifying the code in my other post. I'll take a look at JW players documentation and get back to you. I'm getting married in 10 days, so I wouldn't hold your breath on this one, but after the 25th feel free to poke me along.

I'll just tell you kinda what i'm working on as well. I am currently using JW player, and i feel it works great. I really like the idea of putting 'adds' or psas into our online content. I however don't like paying licensing fees... so I am actually switching my system over to flowplayer. I found that flowplayer was a lot easier to do the stuff I wanted with simple javascripting then JW player. Maybe they just have better documentation.. who knows.

Here is an example of what I'm developing for my station:

http://www.ctn5.org/raytest/flowplaye...

This has the forced preroll add. I could also do a midroll or postroll add very easily.

The current file currently cant jump (haven't injected the meta data) but I've tested it and it does work on other files.

The pop up that shows was put there to let me test google analytics integration. So whats really nice is I have very accurate meta data of how often these videos are being watched, how much of the programs they are watching, and what points in meetings people are jumping to most often.

Keep in mind though that I'm not using TRMS VOD server. This is all a homebrewed solution.

Probably not for the faint of heart to develop, but I really like the control and flexability I have.

This is definitely where PEG is headed I think. In the past six weeks we have delivered 3700 VOD shows. Thats an average of 88 show views a day. Definitely not youtube, but still pretty impressive given its very local, usually not that exciting content.

-ray

We are averaging 5100 Views per month and Most are watching government stuff.. I took the vod server down last week for maintenance and we got a call from a guy in California cuz our stream was down we thought that was cool.

Good luck on the marriage .

Hey Nathan...

Can you give me a link to your wsdl file. Or just point me to your Cablecast server. I don't have the VOD server, so obviously its a little hard for me to test :)

Oh and some project IDs that you would like to base your playlists off of would be great too.

-ray

Alright....

Here is the deal. The JW player that will play WMV files such as the ones on your TRMS products runs on Silverlight. Silverlight as we know is a microsoft product.. which means its prone to failure.

Silverlight needs the Windows Media Server (your TRMS VOD server) to have http control protocols enabled, this has to be on a port other than 80 I think. It would also require changing the URL that the webservice serves out to reflect that control port.

An easier option I think would to just make the VOD file directory accessible over http.

You would also need to change the vod url from beginning with "mms:" to beginning with "http:"

Hopefully John will chime in with nice screen shots on how to do those two things, as I don't have a VOD server to play with.

Once those two things are accomplished. The player on this page should work:

http://www.ctn5.org/raytest/mmsvod/in...

Once its working, let me know and I'll clean up the code and tell you how to configure it.

-ray

Just wanted to let everyone know that we got this working.

You can see a demo at:

www.ctn5.org/raytest/mmsvod/

Thanks ray I will look at this asap.

As for getting the files available http I created a new website in IIS and pointed it to the vod content dir and forwarded a port the vod server.

Hey Nathan,

Just seeing how its going for you. I thought this was a pretty cool little project. You've kinda kick started me on making a more usable interface to 'series' of shows.

Been planning on doing it for a while, but now I have some direction.

-ray

Ray

I am getting ready to role this out this week. I had to have a emergency gallbladder surgery last week and was down for a while and did not get to work on this. I do thank you for your help with and would like to work together on more things like this.

Ray I have the vod service up http://www.watchictv.net/?q=node/1060

Hey Nathan,

That looks pretty neat. So the code I put together is generating the lists that appear beneath the video player?

Here are my thoughts, just as a friendly critique.

1. When you select a meeting from the drop down, maybe there should be a notice above/below the add telling the viewer they will soon be able to select a meeting to view.

2. When the text changes size due to the rollover effect on the episode selection, it causes all the other items to jump around and jitter making it harder to read. The highlighting and color change is good, maybe just keeping the text the same size might make it look a bit cleaner.

3. When you click on a show, can you make the video start playing right away? Just makes it a bit more intuitive if you click on a show, and its starts playing right away, instead of just loading the player and then having to start the video playing manually.

We are in the process of redesigning our site now, its really neat to see what other stations are doing.

Thanks

-ray