Problem with External player

[prelude2004c]

Hello,

i have been running into a problem with the new 4.3 and 4.4 versions. When I create a player and say External player with playlist or external player it always launches the JW Player. It works great for Music but all video does not call the playlist file and it never picks up my VLC.

Is there a setting that I am missing because I have been through everything and I can't seem to find out why in audio it uses VLC playlist correctly but in video it always uses JW player doesn't matter what setting under the players that I use.

Thank you

[prelude2004c]

can anyone help?

[GJ51]

I looked at this a few nights ago and at this time I was not able to find a workaround. I thought perhaps moving the file extension from the video mask to the music mask might do the trick, but so far I haven't gotten it to work. I'll try again when I get some more time to play with it.

Is there a particular reason you're trying to get this to work this way?

[prelude2004c]

Hello,

thank you for the reply. Yes, well I want to use video with VLC ( external ). The new VLC does continuous buffering and I don't want to have to use transcoding all the time. So what I am looking to do is simple.

If i select Web Player it will use JWPlayer and the Flash to play the music.

If I select external player with playlist it should launch my default player ( In my case VLC ). Music does this just fine but video does not. I want to stream using VLC without transcoding.

Hope this is clear and that I am explaining it correctly.

Thank you

[GJ51]

I do essentially the same thing by formatting my video either as mp4 or flv which will play in JW without transcoding at the native resolution of the video. I know this doesn't work for all formats, but it does allow me to bypass transcoding for video playback. Video intended for playback by guest accounts should be flv as they cannot select an external player. This isn't too bad as you probably want to use a lower resolution format for streaming over internet to be functional. Internally I use mp4 to stream Blue Ray quality over my gigabit lan at full resolution. HTH.

[stozher]

ooops... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefo ... nectivity/

[prelude2004c]

I don't understand. The old version of Subsonic did externally play video in VLC.. the new versions do not allow for this and I do not know why .

[GJ51]

When you call for the playback of video it appears that SS is using another copy of JW Player as an external player to pass the video to the JW configured for video playback. I'm not sure why it's done that way either, but I assume it may have been the easiest way for Sindre to get video enabled for now. I've tried a few workarounds, but haven't found anything yet for calling the default desktop player such as VLC or WMP.

[prelude2004c]

Hum.. its strange how it was on the old versions but new versions don't have it.

[GJ51]

External behavior is still the same for audio. I think Sindre is parsing the external player to a second defined JW Player when video is played. As may be evident, I'm no programmer, but I think this is what is happening.

Also cool, you can play music and watch video at the same time. Don't know why anyone would, but you can.

[prelude2004c]

Any update?

[privatesam]

Hey I hit this problem today and its a major one for me! External Player was really usefult o cut down the transcoding load on the cpu when there were more than one user on my server but this really halts things up.

Suspect its a simple workaround and might be as simple as adding a switch to the video.jsp file but we need someone who knows how to do this. Maybe Sindre will pick this up?