[updated] Anyone wants a Video on Demand? - new ver released

[JokerCampioni]

I'm very interested em VOD.

I couldn't find your tutorial. The link is broken. Could you send the right link please ?

I'm trying to streaming video over Internet, I have a large bandwidth, but the images freezes. It works fine in the local network.. but it doesn't work over Internet.

Thank you

[Guest]

Hello...
Well in Internet the main problem become if the client is behind a NAT or firewall; in a LAN it works very well because the clients can see the server without interfaces like NAT or firewall

[Guest]

I also wants a VOD tutorial.

[JokerCampioni]

So, the problem is the firewall.
Any ideas to solve it ??

[jamezilla]

Does anyone have a mirror of this solution/howto kicking around? It's exactly what I'd like to do with VLC.

[peterg]

Hi efurban,

I need your help!
Please contact me
peter@playhouseplaza.com

[efurban]

Hi all,
I have now finished a new version of this mod.
It's much faster and also has a little nice ajax update feature.

Please check it out here http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

What do you patch in VLC ?

Could you make a nice wiki page about that ?
This is amazing

[efurban]

the patch is a simple reg fix. It's VLC zipped version + a URI handler; and the installer simply copy it to c:\program files\VideoLAN\VLC then apply the URI handler. THis way it doesn't mess up with the system in any way.

the content of the URI handler reg file:

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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vlcstream] @="URL:VLC Protocol" "URL Protocol"="" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vlcstream\DefaultIcon] @="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe,0" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vlcstream\shell] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vlcstream\shell\open] [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\vlcstream\shell\open\command] @="C:\\Program Files\\VideoLAN\\VLC\\vlc.exe -vvv http://\"%1\""

The page here http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand
is a wiki. Am I getting you wrong?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I had never seen that before and I am around for some times.

I was thinking about a wiki.videolan.org/Complete_VOD_Solution or something. I may do that. (surely)

[efurban]

Thank you.
Another VideoDB user actually wrote something similar last semester but it works on windows server only.
I'll post his mod to my wiki as well soon. Don't know if you 'll be interested as his mod has nothing to do with VideoLAN.

I do have a question though. As this works great, I couldn't seek the video as I am playing. (well, not for avi files, I could if I convert all my files to mpg or ogm) is there any easy fix to this?

Do you use VideoDB?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Well, about the seeking problem, what is the streaming protocol used ? RTP ?
Then, there are a lot of bugs in it. But AVI is a very bad streaming muxer.

About the wiki, add yours when you have time and just make a link for his.

[efurban]

It uses http. I used to convert all my files to ogm so that it would see and also I can include subtitles.. very sweet indeed. However there was an A/V sync issue back then.

What format would you recommend to use?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

ASF/mms
MP4/http
MPEG-2/TS/udp

[daim]

Hi all,
I have now finished a new version of this mod.
It's much faster and also has a little nice ajax update feature.

Please check it out here http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand

hello,
was trying to download the file, but only get a broken one. my tar says, this is not a tar file. what to do?

[Brunovernay]

As I understand, with VideoDB, you have to manually add every single movie ?
Is it possible see all the files, even if only the file name appear, and only enter more information later ?

I will try to find time to read your code.

Thanks
Bruno

[efurban]

daim,

You are right. The file somehow got corrupted if downloading from that page via Confluence wiki. I have changed the format to bzip and that seemed fixed the issue. You should be able to untar it by using.
"tar -jxvf videodb_vod.tar.bz"

Thank you

[efurban]

Brunovernay,
Not sure what you meant... but if you just configure the root of all your videos in the vod configuration then vod mod will find the files for all the movies in VideoDB.

[daim]

Hi all,
I have now finished a new version of this mod.
It's much faster and also has a little nice ajax update feature.

Please check it out here http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand

hello,
was trying to download the file, but only get a broken one. my tar says, this is not a tar file. what to do?

I have found a workaround: when just using wget to the link, you get a file videodb_vod.tar.gz?version=1 , which can be opened with tar. Firefox download does not work for me.

[daim]

ASF/mms
MP4/http
MPEG-2/TS/udp

as well, I support especially an option to include vls transcode feature to ASF/mms in the vod. This will allow to play the files directly on set top boxes, which often have only WinCE with WMP installed.

[efurban]

transcode feature sounds really good but it's gonna take some time to implement. Maybe it'll be my next project.

[HelixX23]

Hi...

I found your site http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand while i was watching for some vod server implementation for my 30 Watt Network Server on ITX Base

Ysterday your site was online but not now anymore...

Are there any mirrors on your source files?


greets HelixX²³

[hybrid_00]

now that's too bad, that's exactly the solution I was searching, but your page is down

are they any mirrors out there, or someone that have the full package (modded videodb + vlc mod) and that is willing to share?

thank you,

--brID

[VeixES]

Hello,
Got the VideoDB running under windows and under WAMP server http://www.wampserver.com/en/ Should be no problem with XAMPP either.
But only problem is with getting the VOD mod working cuz you have install.sh but under windows its quite "difficult" to use shell script.
Maybe its possible to make a .bat file ? And how should path to videos look like in videodb_vod.inc.php when using windows (also could 2 or more rows of path could be used).

VideoDB withoud VOD is quite useless, cuz adding movies and tv eps manually is quite painful.

Also, when playing movies i noticed concern on NAT, but should that be no problem when using VPN network like hamachi ?

Best regards

[efurban]

My site is back online now. Sorry guys for not noticing the posts here. I have been busy with work and few other personal projects.
A user who tried this VOD mod modified the code and now made it to work on windows server as well. I'll test it in a few days and will post the Windows package on my site when its ready. : )