I tried the SimpleVideoPlayer with one test video, Amazon Cloud seems to be a lot faster then Dreamhost cloud.
I have been for about a month now trying to figure out why I have been getting a 30 second to 60 second
download time on my Delta Blues Guitar Instructional videos. Today I tried the SimpleVideoPlayer
and the download was fast especially from the Amazon Cloud.
I am using Eclipse with the Brightscript addition to create the Roku Guitar Channel,
So I am guessing I should create a whole new project in Eclipse,
Could the problem be my XML files, also should I be looking for
error messages in Eclipse ? I have set up a connection between my Roku box and my computer which I have been using every time
I export the channel to my TV, so this same to remain the same.
So its starting the project again in Eclipse,
does the code below which is used for
the SimpleVideoPlayer look correct?
Thanks
Kevin
' ********************************************************************
' ** Sample PlayVideo App
' ** Copyright (c) 2009 Roku Inc. All Rights Reserved.
' ********************************************************************
Sub Main()
'initialize theme attributes like titles, logos and overhang color
initTheme()
'display a fake screen while the real one initializes. this screen
'has to live for the duration of the whole app to prevent flashing
'back to the roku home screen.
screenFacade = CreateObject("roPosterScreen")
screenFacade.show()
itemMpeg4 = { ContentType:"episode"
SDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/DanGilbert.jpg"
HDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/DanGilbert.jpg"
IsHD:False
HDBranded:False
ShortDescriptionLine1:"Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?"
ShortDescriptionLine2:""
Description:"Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness."
Rating:"NR"
StarRating:"80"
Length:1280
Categories:["Technology","Talk"]
Title:"Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?"
}
itemVenter = { ContentType:"episode"
SDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/CraigVenter-2008.jpg"
HDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/CraigVenter-2008.jpg"
IsHD:False
HDBranded:False
ShortDescriptionLine1:"Can we create new life out of our digital universe?"
ShortDescriptionLine2:""
Description:"He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into fourth-generation fuels -- biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life. A fascinating Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson follows."
Rating:"NR"
StarRating:"80"
Length:1972
Categories:["Technology","Talk"]
Title:"Craig Venter asks, Can we create new life out of our digital universe?"
}
item = { ContentType:"episode"
SDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/BigBuckBunny.jpg"
HDPosterUrl:"file://pkg:/images/BigBuckBunny.jpg"
IsHD:true
HDBranded:true
ShortDescriptionLine1:"Big Buck Bunny"
ShortDescriptionLine2:""
Description:"Big Buck Bunny is being served using a Wowza server running on Amazon EC2 cloud services. The video is transported via HLS HTTP Live Streaming. A team of small artists from the Blender community produced this open source content..."
Rating:"NR"
StarRating:"80"
Length:600
Categories:["Technology","Cartoon"]
Title:"Big Buck Bunny"
}
showSpringboardScreen(itemVenter) 'uncomment this line and comment out the next to see the old mpeg4 example
'showSpringboardScreen(itemMpeg4) 'uncomment this line and comment out the next to see the old mpeg4 example
'showSpringboardScreen(item)
'exit the app gently so that the screen doesn't flash to black
screenFacade.showMessage("")
sleep(25)
End Sub
'*************************************************************
'** Set the configurable theme attributes for the application
'**
'** Configure the custom overhang and Logo attributes
'*************************************************************
Sub initTheme()
app = CreateObject("roAppManager")
theme = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoOffsetSD_X = "72"
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoOffsetSD_Y = "15"
theme.OverhangSliceSD = "pkg:/images/Overhang_BackgroundSlice_SD43.png"
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoSD = "pkg:/images/Logo_Overhang_SD43.png"
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoOffsetHD_X = "123"
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoOffsetHD_Y = "20"
theme.OverhangSliceHD = "pkg:/images/Overhang_BackgroundSlice_HD.png"
theme.OverhangPrimaryLogoHD = "pkg:/images/Logo_Overhang_HD.png"
app.SetTheme(theme)
End Sub
'*************************************************************
'** showSpringboardScreen()
'*************************************************************
Function showSpringboardScreen(item as object) As Boolean
port = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
screen = CreateObject("roSpringboardScreen")
print "showSpringboardScreen"
screen.SetMessagePort(port)
screen.AllowUpdates(false)
if item <> invalid and type(item) = "roAssociativeArray"
screen.SetContent(item)
endif
screen.SetDescriptionStyle("generic") 'audio, movie, video, generic
' generic+episode=4x3,
screen.ClearButtons()
screen.AddButton(1,"Play")
screen.AddButton(2,"Go Back")
screen.SetStaticRatingEnabled(false)
screen.AllowUpdates(true)
screen.Show()
downKey=3
selectKey=6
while true
msg = wait(0, screen.GetMessagePort())
if type(msg) = "roSpringboardScreenEvent"
if msg.isScreenClosed()
print "Screen closed"
exit while
else if msg.isButtonPressed()
print "Button pressed: "; msg.GetIndex(); " " msg.GetData()
if msg.GetIndex() = 1
displayVideo()
else if msg.GetIndex() = 2
return true
endif
else
print "Unknown event: "; msg.GetType(); " msg: "; msg.GetMessage()
endif
else
print "wrong type.... type=";msg.GetType(); " msg: "; msg.GetMessage()
endif
end while
return true
End Function
'*************************************************************
'** displayVideo()
'*************************************************************
Function displayVideo()
print "Displaying video: "
p = CreateObject("roMessagePort")
video = CreateObject("roVideoScreen")
video.setMessagePort(p)
'bitrates = [0] ' 0 = no dots, adaptive bitrate
'bitrates = [348] ' <500 Kbps = 1 dot
'bitrates = [664] ' <800 Kbps = 2 dots
'bitrates = [996] ' <1.1Mbps = 3 dots
'bitrates = [2048] ' >=1.1Mbps = 4 dots
bitrates = [0]
'Swap the commented values below to play different video clips...
urls = ["http://d7u0o2d8h47jb.cloudfront.net/test/CCRyderB.m4v"]
qualities = ["SD"]
StreamFormat = "mp4"
title = "Craig Venter Synthetic Life"
srt = "http://dotsub.com/media/f65605d0-c4f6-4f13-a685-c6b96fba03d0/c/eng/srt"
'urls = ["http://guitar.objects.cdn.dream.io/VIDEOS/CCRyderB.m4v"]
'qualities = ["HD"]
'StreamFormat = "mp4"
'title = "Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?"
' Apple's HLS test stream
'urls = ["http://guitar.objects.cdn.dream.io/VIDEOS/CCRyderB.m4v"]
'qualities = ["SD"]
'streamformat = "hls"
'title = "Apple BipBop Test Stream"
' Big Buck Bunny test stream from Wowza
'urls = ["http://guitar.objects.cdn.dream.io/VIDEOS/CCRyderB.m4v"]
'qualities = ["SD"]
'streamformat = "hls"
'title = "Big Buck Bunny"
videoclip = CreateObject("roAssociativeArray")
videoclip.StreamBitrates = bitrates
videoclip.StreamUrls = urls
videoclip.StreamQualities = qualities
videoclip.StreamFormat = streamformat
videoclip.Title = title
print "srt = ";srt
if srt <> invalid and srt <> "" then
videoclip.SubtitleUrl = srt
end if
video.SetContent(videoclip)
video.show()
lastSavedPos = 0
statusInterval = 10 'position must change by more than this number of seconds before saving
while true
msg = wait(0, video.GetMessagePort())
if type(msg) = "roVideoScreenEvent"
if msg.isScreenClosed() then 'ScreenClosed event
print "Closing video screen"
exit while
else if msg.isPlaybackPosition() then
nowpos = msg.GetIndex()
if nowpos > 10000
end if
if nowpos > 0
if abs(nowpos - lastSavedPos) > statusInterval
lastSavedPos = nowpos
end if
end if
else if msg.isRequestFailed()
print "play failed: "; msg.GetMessage()
else
print "Unknown event: "; msg.GetType(); " msg: "; msg.GetMessage()
endif
end if
end while
End Function
