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

[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. : )

[nahallacman]

cant wait for the windows server version
i suppose i could run it on a virtual machine
but i just would rather keep it simple since i have XAMPP on my box here
and just dont have the money to get a server box haha

[nahallacman]

Oh and for anyone who is haveing issues with this I have found another solution. It is not quite the same but it works incredibly well. Get VNC then simply every time you want video streamed to you, log onto the computer from VNC and set VLC to stream the media you prefer. Simple and effective.

[VeixES]

I dont actually know what you mean about vnc+vlc. Could you explain ?

efurban any news on windows version ? my WAMP server, media and VPN are sitting idle.

[efurban]

allo guys.
The good news is that I have just finished testing the code for windows server and everything seems to be working fine.
The bad news is: none.
I'm writing an simple installation UI . should be done shortly.
: )

[efurban]

The package for windows server has just been posted on my site. thank you for ur patients. : )
http://wiki.ouwu.com:8080/display/pb/Video+on+Demand

the package has not been extensively tested so please post issues problems here if any.
Thank you very much .

[elbeardo69]

Hi,

I'm struggling. I have used the install script on a working videodb setup, but on viewing movies info, no buttons 'play media' etc are visible. The installer seems to have worked its magic (i.e. i see that all the files in the manual update list - modern.css for example - have been updated). I've also modified my apache and videodb_vod.inc.php config files as instructed (although surely this has nothing to do with being able to SEE the buttons..).

Can anybody help please? I'm using Apache 2.2.6, php 5.2.5, vod 0.2.1, videodb 2.4.0b ..the newest of everything.

Thanks.

[Colin-uk]

I'm having a bit of trouble getting this working too.

I've set it up with WAMP on XP.

but its not picking up any of my video files.

ive added the alias in the apache config and edited the vod config file, but it doesnt show anything when i browse to the videodb dir in my web browser.
(clicking any of the top options doesnt do anything either)

I cant think what ive missed. anyone got an idea?

Thanks
Colin

[efurban]

oops guys. This version of the mod is written based on VideoDB 2.2.2.
I'll have to try the latest videodb myself. will update this weekend.

[elbeardo69]

I appreciate your responding to me, especially when faced with stupidity! Thanks.

[bgreengmw]

Tried to follow the link to your site/code but no success. Is there another link/way to access. Very Interested in playing with this.