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Friday, 04/13/2007 -- by clyde. Subject: Infochannel as a webpage

Hi, as you can see i have been out of the Scala fold for a long long time.. but i keep coming back! :)

As I have been out of touch, i would like to know briefly...

- is there a webplugin (Activ X) of the Infochannel 5 player so that it can be embedded in a webpage and work as if this was a regular player ? (This would be for a Corporate TV channel on each emloyees desktop accessible via standard IE browser)

- would this be iplay? or is there a new plugin?

many Thanks,
clyde
Dubai, UAE.

Saturday, 04/14/2007 -- by Marvin Droogsma (www.pthgroep.nl). Subject: Scala.ocx

Oh I just wish there was one... But I don't see one coming in the next five years. The player is far to complex to fit in a webcomponent.
For the purpose you describe there is other software available (less visually good) which I could advise you on (marvin at pthgroep dot nl). Apart from that, a Scala player would be far to expensive to put on tens or hundreds of individual pc's...

iPlay has been discontinued and did not fit your requirements anyway.

If you really need a webplayer that gets its input from Designer/CM, I could write one for you, but it will not have all the wipes, etc. Just the (static) content without the wipes etc. It would suck up the Scalascripts and translate them to what can be played by a webcomponent (ocx). But that would be a very costly exercise... But I like the idea, I might go on with it anyhow (although I'd get John Schilling and his crew of lawyers all over me...) ;o)

Marvin Droogsma
The Netherlands

Sunday, 04/15/2007 -- by clyde. Subject: web tv

Ahhh the legendary John Schilling! (said with the utmost respect, as he is probably one of the few originals left from the days of the amiga! im a die hard fan)

Still, I seem to have settled on a workaround , if indeed this project does come through. and no, i dont have to install a ton of players on each PC.

... ahh what the heck, in the interests of knowledge.. here goes..
simply have one player pc running, take the video out of that into a second pc that has a high quality video grabber card, run windows media encoder on this PC, digitize and then stream it over your intranet.
Every PC then just needs a webpage with windows media player component embedded at full screen resolution ;)

(ideas from the good old amiga days ... still way ahead of its time ;-)

Sunday, 04/15/2007 -- by Marvin Droogsma (www.pthgroep.nl). Subject: Your idea

Brilliant idea. I should have come up with that one. Works fine with small amount of players, otherwise it would suck up bandwidth!

And I do agree with you on the good old Amiga-days, as a very early Amiga user I can also see why up until today in ways it is still ahead of other platforms. To bad Commodore messed it up...

In a way, using Scala is my way to pay respect to Amiga and its pioneers, of whom some still are at Scala. It started multimedia authoring way before the word even existed. And it breaths Amiga all over the interface... I'm proud to have witnessed that era!

Marvin

Monday, 04/16/2007 -- by . Subject:

Amen! to that Marvin.
Nice to meet you here :)

Regards from the dunes..
Clyde
-Dubai

Tuesday, 04/17/2007 -- by John Schilling. Subject: Actually...

Content Manager 5 is specifically _designed_ to permit the eventual support of "non-Scala" Playback devices. There are all sorts of TCP/IP addressable "Video Playback Specific" boxes out there. We are not ignoring them!

Many are 1/3-1/2 the price of a basic PC Engine. There are plenty of customers who only need stupid video Playback--but would like scheduling, Playback reporting, etc. The "5" generation product was designed with this in mind. Go ahead, make your Player--its not competition as such--it _complements_ our product. [...and by supporting more targets, both high and low, the overall solution becomes more valuable!]

BTW: If you want to "Broadcast" a Scala Player in a "Streaming" way--here are some examples I have run at various times:

#1: UltraVNC on the Scala Player with the VNC-repeater in "Broadcast Mode" running on a separate server machine. UltraVNC "Viewers" in "listen mode" connecting to the Repeater.

#2 Scala Player to TV-Out. TV-Out to a secondary machine with a Hauppauge TV-Capture card and Windows Media Services running. Listening machines--including other Scala Players--playing the streams. [this was one way to get a "Scala Script in a Clip" effect in IC3!

#3 Use FRAPS to record a Video of Playback. Then transcode the FRAPS video to WMV--feed that to a WMS. [highest quality result--obviously no real time but still useful]


--JSS

Wednesday, 04/18/2007 -- by Neumann. Subject: Streaming

You can also do it with the VLC server/client application which does a marvellous job and is free!
I grab the signal from the player with a television grabber on another computer, and stream it from there.

You can actually embed it in a webpage as well, which I do, but can't show you because it's behind a login mechanism on a webpage not public to everyone :-)

But the stream is public and can be viewed with medaplayer. Just punch in the URL in the mediaplayer: http://sufbellman.dk:1234 (be aware it's in danish!)


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