Inconsistent Results with Flash Using Different Monitors

Hi Folks,
I hope this is the correct forum for this question. If not, let me know where to post it.
We do a lot of flash on DotNetNuke web sites. Strange combination? Maybe. At any rate we have had reasonable success but recently ran into a strange issue. Maybe it isn’t so strange for graphics gurus who really know a lot about things like aspect ratios, display resolution and various types of monitors but it was for us. We finally fixed our problem but not to my satisfaction because I don’t fully understand why what we did worked. Maybe someone on this forum more expert than me can provide some knowledge. I would really appreciate it. I always like to increase my knowledge base.
We had three Flash movie modules on a web page displayed via three DNN media modules. We do that all the time. However this time the center one was skewed or pushed over several inches to the right on a customer laptop and on one of our machines running Vista. It appeared to be specific to IE 8 but we didn’t do a lot of testing on other browsers. Every other machine we had looked OK. I had other folks look at the site but no one had the skewing issue.
From the testing we did do the issues appear to break down into two problems. The skewing on our Vista machine was corrected by reinstalling IE 8. This I guess was do to some installation problem when IE 8 was first installed.
Our customer however still had this problem with Win XP even after reinstalling IE 8 and he claimed the same problem existed on a new Win 7 machine with IE 8. We managed to get a laptop running Win XP and IE 8 with a monitor that we thought was like the one the customer was using. Sure enough we got the skewing problem. Reinstalling IE 8 made no difference as it did with our Vista machine. We then played with the actual size (height and width) of the Flash movie modules and the DNN media modules by trial and error until the skewing disappeared on the laptop. Everything now displays OK on all monitors that we have tested including all the customer’s machines. This appears to have something to do with the aspect ratio and the Flash player. I don’t believe in magic. There has to be a mathematical technical explanation for this but I don’t have the expertise to know exactly what it is.
Any help would be much appreciated. If there are any books, documents, or other material that will eliminate my ignorance please indicate what they are.
Thanks,
G. M.

Can't patch XE, unfortunately it comes with pre-2007 DST rules.
There is a metalink note describing how to fix the DST changes, and while it's not really a "supported" method, neither is XE- if you can get updated timezone files from a later patch set for the same release, 10gR2, on the right operating system, shutdown/startup the database the updated DST rules will be in place. The timezone files are in $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo.
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IMHO storing literal timezone info isn't an ideal practice, let the client settings do the time interpretation, time is always changing. Its the interpretation of the time that gets changed. From time to time. :(

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http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="344"
height="400"></embed>
</object>
</noscript>
</p>
<h3>Complete Digital Signage Solution</h3>
<p align="left"><strong>Citecast is a turnkey,
worry free digital signage solution</strong> that includes
content, appropriate hardware, software, installation, training and
support. </p>
<p align="left">Need it quickly? Citecast can be
deployed rapidly so that you are up and communicating fast.
We make it easy to try Citecast with a low cost of entry and
reasonable monthly usage fees. There is no need to purchase
expensive equipment or grow and train your staff. </p>
<p align="left">A Citecast Solution is high end
digital signage without a huge capital investment.
Citecast’s affordable options offer alternatives to
costly capital expenditure by allowing you to use existing
operating or marketing budgets. </p>
<div class="spacershad"></div>
<h3 align="center" class="twoColElsRtHdr">Compelling
digital signage at the point of decision! </h3>
<p class="text1">
What is it worth to you and your organization to have a
sales representative who is always in the right
place to interact with the right people when they are at the
point of decision? What is it worth
to have representation that is informative, always accurate,
and up-to-date delivering an efficient,
positive, message to a captive market in at their point of
decision. </p>
<p class="text1"><a
href="/Pages/Products_and_Services/Examples.shtml">View Citecast
examples </a>
</div>
<br class="clearfloat" />
</div>
<div class="clearfloat"></div>
<div id="footer">
<p></p>
</div>

</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

Can't see your CSS code this way. Much better to publish to a
testing
folder on your remote server.
But as a guess, I think this might work. Add this to your
outer div's CSS.
#mainContent {
height: 1%; /** IE6 peekaboo fix **/
overflow: auto; /** Mozilla clear floats **/
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com
"Dad Blame" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:[email protected]...
> I have <div id="sidebar1"> that floats right,
inside of <div
id="mainContent">
> which houses all the content. IE won't allow the text to
extend (wrap) the
> entire width of <div id="mainContent"> once it is
past or below <div
> id="sidebar1"> that floats right. Firefox allows it
and displays
correctly. I
> am using SPRY widgets in <div id="sidebar1">
> Below is the code...
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
> <title>Citecast Digital Signage</title>
> <link href="/CSS/twoColElsRtHdr.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> 
> <script src="Scripts/AC_RunActiveContent.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script src="SpryAssets/SpryMenuBar.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript"
src="p7pm/p7popmenu.js"></script>
> <script src="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
>
> <style type="text/css" media="screen">
> 
> </style>
> <link href="SpryAssets/SpryAccordion.css"
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> </head>
>
> <body class="twoColElsRtHdr"
onload="P7_initPM(1,7,1,-20,10)">
>
> <div class="twoColElsRtHdr" id="container">
>
>
> <div id="header">
>
> </div>
>
> 
>
>
>
> <div id="container_margintop">
>
> <div id="menu">
> 
> </div>
>
>
>
> <div id="sidebar1">
> <div id="Accordion1" class="Accordion"
tabindex="0">
> <div class="AccordionPanel">
> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Research shows
digital signage is more
> memorable, less annoying than other media</div>
> <div class="AccordionPanelContent">
> <p>
Caveats to keep in mind ...</p>
> <p>Like any research sponsored by a party with a
vested interest in
the
> outcome, these results need to be taken with a grain of
salt. </p>
> <p> <a
href="/Pages/articles-columns-news/researchShows...caveats
to
> keep in mind.shtml">more ...</a> </p>
> </div>
> </div>
> <div class="AccordionPanel">
> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Research shows
digital signage is more
> memorable ...
What does it all mean?</div>
> <div class="AccordionPanelContent">
> <p>Some of the above results simply indicate how
much time the
> respondents spend interacting with each type of media.
</p>
> <p><a
href="/Pages/articles-columns-news/researchShows...what does
it
> all mean.shtml">More ...</a> </p>
> </div>
> </div>
> </div>
> <br />
> <br />
>
>
> <div align="center"><img
src="/Images/clarkpowell-integrator-logo.png"
> alt="clark powell" width="214" height="69"
/></div>
>
> <div align="center"><img src="/Images/cp 25yr
seal.png" /></div>
> <br />
> <div align="center"><img
src="/Images/princeton_logo_horiz.jpg"
> alt="princeton" /></div><br />
> <br />
>
>
> </div>
>
> <div id="mainContent">
> <h1 align="center"> </h1>
> <h2 align="center">Turn Key Digital
Signage</h2>
> <p align="center">
> <script type="text/javascript">
> AC_FL_RunContent(
>
'codebase','
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.
cab#
>
version=9,0,28,0','width','344','height','400','title','Citecast
digital
> signage
>
example','src','/flash/home-tv-reflection','quality','high','pluginspage','h
ttp:
>
//www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFla
sh',
> 'movie','/flash/home-tv-reflection' ); //end AC code
> </script>
> <noscript>
> <object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
>
codebase="
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
b#ve
> rsion=9,0,28,0" width="344" height="400" title="Citecast
digital signage
> example">
> <param name="movie"
value="/flash/home-tv-reflection.swf" />
> <param name="quality" value="high" />
> <embed src="/flash/home-tv-reflection.swf"
quality="high"
>
pluginspage="
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Ve
rsio
> n=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
width="344"
> height="400"></embed>
> </object>
> </noscript>
> </p>
>
> <h3>Complete Digital Signage Solution</h3>
> <p align="left">
Citecast is a turnkey, worry free digital
signage
> solution that includes content, appropriate
hardware, software,
> installation, training and support. </p>
> <p align="left">Need it quickly? Citecast can be
deployed rapidly
so
> that you are up and communicating fast.
> We make it easy to try Citecast with a low cost of entry
and
> reasonable monthly usage fees. There is no need to
purchase expensive
equipment
> or grow and train your staff. </p>
> <p align="left">A Citecast Solution is high end
digital signage
without
> a huge capital investment.
> Citecast?s affordable options offer alternatives to
costly
capital
> expenditure by allowing you to use existing operating or
marketing
budgets. </p>
> <div class="spacershad"></div>
> <h3 align="center"
class="twoColElsRtHdr">Compelling digital
signage at
> the point of decision! </h3>
> <p class="text1">
> What is it worth to you and your organization to have a
sales
> representative who is always in the right
> place to interact with the right people when they are at
the
point of
> decision? What is it worth
> to have representation that is informative, always
accurate, and
> up-to-date delivering an efficient,
> positive, message to a captive market in at their point
of
decision.
> </p>
> <p class="text1"><a
>
href="/Pages/Products_and_Services/Examples.shtml">View Citecast
examples
</a>
>
> </div>
> <br
> class="clearfloat" />
> </div>
>
> <div class="clearfloat"></div>
>
> <div id="footer">
> <p></p>
> </div>
> 
>
> </div>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> 
> </script>
> </body>
> </html>
>
>

Extracting XML from webservice result with Namespaces using E4X

Hi,
I need to extract some data from proprietary Web Service (to be fed to HierarchicalData for dataProvider of ADG).
So I made service.returnType=’e4x’;
In that case it returns data as XML.
I need to get useful data from it after Snapshot:
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<SOAP-ENV:Header xmlns:msdwHdr="http://xml.msdw.com/ns/appmw/soap/1.0/header">
<msdw:RequestID xmlns:msdw="http://xml.msdw.com/ns/appmw/soap/1.0/header">restsoap#1390182244050#197728273958044232</msdw:RequestID>
<msdwHdr:FinalMessage>true</msdwHdr:FinalMessage>
</SOAP-ENV:Header>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<ADSSnapshotResponse xmlns="http://xml.ms.com/ns/appmw/dataserver/1.0">
<Snapshot seqNo="0">
<BASE_ELEMENT_NAME BASE_ELEMENT_NAME="4.11.2.0">
Using E4X, like:
var root:XML = event.result as XML; //good!
var xmlRoot1:XMLList = root['SOAP-ENV:Body'].ADSSnapshotResponse.Snapshot.BASE_ELEMENT_NAME;
it does return XMLList (tried different variants), but debugger shows nothing at all inside that XMLList.
var root1:XMLList = root.children(); // that returns valid XMLList with 2 XML elements inside
But all other data I could not get if I use any E4X:
Can I skip Envelope, going to Body as one of its children? suppose I can...
a) root.SOAP-ENV:Body would give compilation errors because of ‘-‘, ‘:’
b) root.Body gives blank XMLList
c) root.Body[0] returns NULL
Any idea how to extract the load from ADS Response (envelope)?
What can I do regarding XML Namespaces in E4X ?
If I set service.returnType="xml" it returns data as XMLNode's.
But I prefer to use E4X if possible.
Please help!
TIA,
Oleg.
P.S.: using Flex 4.5.1 with Flex3 ADG.

not an implementable option for us and cost prohibitive.

Inconsistent results with Windows App Certification Kit

Hi, I asked about this issue before on a different forum but didn't get a response. Support pointed me towards this forum so I'm asking here as maybe the other forum wasn't the appropriate one. My company is attempting to renew our ms partnership, and we are
trying to certify our desktop
app for windows 8. I have attached a screen shot below showing the registry entries that our app makes. When we try to test for certification (windows 8) we get the different (but similar) results on different systems using the exact same installation package.
Here is an example of the results we get:
Results:
An optional value 'VersionMajor' is missing or invalid      for program Chiro8000.
An optional value 'VersionMinor' is missing or invalid      for program Chiro8000.
An optional value 'MajorVersion' is missing or invalid      for program Chiro8000.
An optional value 'MinorVersion' is missing or invalid      for program Chiro8000.
A non-optional value 'DisplayName' is missing or      invalid for program Chiro8000.
A non-optional value 'Publisher' is missing or invalid      for program Chiro8000.
A non-optional value 'ProductVersion' is missing or      invalid for program Chiro8000.
An optional value 'InstallLocation' is missing or      invalid for program Chiro8000.
Can anyone point us in the right direction?

How did you publish this package? Here are some similar questions, maybe caused by installer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21182856/windows-app-certification-kit-test-result-app-didnt-create-the-require-regist
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21368
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29782
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/e61c393d-e5af-4fee-ad8b-29c36e889043/windows-app-certification-kit-tests-fail-for-desktop-app-installed-from-msi?forum=windowscompatibility
Best Regards,
Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help

Inconsistent results with "Apply" commit

Ever since using PPR event to filter MessageChoice results, I've been experiencing lag when trying to commit data. But the lag is only every other time I commit data!
Here are execution times and when the confirmation page appears (in order):
1. 10 sec
2. 1.5 min
3. 12 sec
4. 1.75 min
5. 8 sec
6. 1.6 min
7. 7 sec
8. 1.65 min
9. 6 sec
Why is it that every other execution is an acceptable execution time and the others are not. No code was change between each execution time. Anyone else experience this?
Thanks,
-Scott

Can't patch XE, unfortunately it comes with pre-2007 DST rules.
There is a metalink note describing how to fix the DST changes, and while it's not really a "supported" method, neither is XE- if you can get updated timezone files from a later patch set for the same release, 10gR2, on the right operating system, shutdown/startup the database the updated DST rules will be in place. The timezone files are in $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo.
Another unfortunately, any values already stored in the database using timestamp with local timezone datatypes for the affected period of the DST changes won't be correct, i.e. there is no 2010-03-14 02:01 (?) but with older timezone rules in place that would be a valid timestamp. The data has to be saved before updating the timezone file, and re-translated to timestamp w/local tz datatypes after the update.
IMHO storing literal timezone info isn't an ideal practice, let the client settings do the time interpretation, time is always changing. Its the interpretation of the time that gets changed. From time to time. :(

Inconsistent results with SDO_RELATE and boundary conditions

Hello,
I am using SDO_RELATE to find all points in one table with any interaction with a polygon selected from a second table. Pretty basic stuff. I noticed one point which exactly matches a vertex on the query polygon was not getting selected as expected. Experimenting a bit I found if I embedded the polygon geometry in the query (rather than selecting it from its table) the query selected the point in question! Experimenting further I found if I changed the query relation from ANYINTERACT to TOUCH the point in question was not selected. So my 2 questions are:
1) What would cause this to fail when the query polygon is being selected from the table?
2) How can ANYINTERACT be true but TOUCH be false?
Here is the first query that fails:
SELECT a.point_id
FROM point_table a, poly_table b
WHERE a.point_id = <point which matches poly vertex>
AND b.poly_id = <poly_id>
AND SDO_RELATE (a.geom, b.geom, 'mask=ANYINTERACT querytype=WINDOW') = 'TRUE';
Here is the query that works:
SELECT a.point_id
FROM point_table a, poly_table b
WHERE a.point_id = <point which matches poly vertex>
AND SDO_RELATE (a.geom,
MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, 8265, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.414884, 28.0094323,
-82.387158, 28.0116258, -82.378891, 28.0131216,
-82.377988, 28.0133894, -82.37555, 28.0143994,
-82.329352, 28.0661089, -82.313207, 28.1006725,
-82.362246, 28.1261981, -82.445319, 28.1139363,
-82.428389, 28.0245891, -82.422103, 28.0117697,
-82.421382, 28.0109085, -82.419096, 28.0099741,
-82.414884, 28.0094323)),
'mask=ANYINTERACT querytype=WINDOW') = 'TRUE';
Here is the second query that fails (ANYINTERACT -> TOUCH):
SELECT a.point_id
FROM point_table a, poly_table b
WHERE a.point_id = <point which matches poly vertex>
AND SDO_RELATE (a.geom,
MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(1003, 8265, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 2003, 1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.414884, 28.0094323,
-82.387158, 28.0116258, -82.378891, 28.0131216,
-82.377988, 28.0133894, -82.37555, 28.0143994,
-82.329352, 28.0661089, -82.313207, 28.1006725,
-82.362246, 28.1261981, -82.445319, 28.1139363,
-82.428389, 28.0245891, -82.422103, 28.0117697,
-82.421382, 28.0109085, -82.419096, 28.0099741,
-82.414884, 28.0094323)),
'mask=TOUCH querytype=WINDOW') = 'TRUE';
The point geometry being selected from the point_table looks like this:
MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, 8265, NULL,
MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1, 1),
MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.445319, 28.1139363))
The metadata for these 2 tables looks like this:
POINT_TABLE
GEOM
SDO_DIM_ARRAY(SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('X', -180, 180, .05),
SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('Y', -90, 90, .05))
8265
POLY_TABLE
GEOM
SDO_DIM_ARRAY(SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('X', -180, 180, .05),
SDO_DIM_ELEMENT('Y', -90, 90, .05))
8265
Both tables have R-tree indexes built.
System is Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 with sdo_version = 9.2.0.5.0
Is it a problem that my points are stored as SDO_ORDINATES? Is the tolerance a factor? Is geodetic data a factor?
Let me know if any other information would be useful and thank you for your help!
James

I am continuing to struggle with this one. I gave up on the SDO_RELATE function under the assumption the tolerance does not come into play for this function (is this true?).
Now I am trying to use the SDO_GEOM.RELATE function with a tolerance to make this work and it is not working as I would expect.
The following 2 queries show the distance between this point and this polygon is 0 yet they are disjoint. How can this be??
Thanks, James
SQL> SELECT SDO_GEOM.SDO_DISTANCE(
2 MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, 8265, NULL,
3 MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1, 1),
4 MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.445319, 28.1139363)),
5 MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, 8265, NULL,
6 MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 1),
7 MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.414884, 28.0094323, -82.387158, 28.0116258,
8 -82.378891, 28.0131216, -82.377988, 28.0133894, -82.37555, 28.0143994,
9 -82.329352, 28.0661089, -82.313207, 28.1006725, -82.362246, 28.1261981,
10 -82.4453185022412,28.1139363297581, -82.428389, 28.0245891, -82.422103, 28.0117697,
11 -82.421382, 28.0109085, -82.419096, 28.0099741, -82.414884, 28.0094323)),
12 10)
13 FROM DUAL;
SDO_GEOM.SDO_DISTANCE(MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001,8265,NULL,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRA
.00000000000000000000
SQL>
SQL> SELECT SDO_GEOM.RELATE(
2 MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001, 8265, NULL,
3 MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1, 1),
4 MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.445319, 28.1139363)),
5 'determine',
6 MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2003, 8265, NULL,
7 MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1, 1003, 1),
8 MDSYS.SDO_ORDINATE_ARRAY(-82.414884, 28.0094323, -82.387158, 28.0116258,
9 -82.378891, 28.0131216,-82.377988, 28.0133894, -82.37555, 28.0143994,
10 -82.329352, 28.0661089, -82.313207, 28.1006725,
11 -82.362246, 28.1261981, -82.4453185022412, 28.1139363297581,
12 -82.428389, 28.0245891, -82.422103, 28.0117697,
13 -82.421382, 28.0109085, -82.419096, 28.0099741, -82.414884, 28.0094323)),
14 10)
15 FROM DUAL;
SDO_GEOM.RELATE(MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY(2001,8265,NULL,MDSYS.SDO_ELEM_INFO_ARRAY(1,1,
DISJOINT

Inconsistent Results with Email Export?

I've set up my presets so that when I export to Mail via the Mail icon my images should be reduced in size/res and watermarks should be added. This is working fine on direct exports but not when export to mail? My images aren't being resized or watermarked?
Here's the way I have it setup: Aperture/Presets/Image Export/Email Medium-JPEG/Show Watermark is checked, as is Scale Watermark. I've also created a custom preset which is basically identical but still no dice. As I said Export works fine when exporting to a folder. Is there another way to set this up? Am I missing something? Anyone else having this issue?

Can't patch XE, unfortunately it comes with pre-2007 DST rules.
There is a metalink note describing how to fix the DST changes, and while it's not really a "supported" method, neither is XE- if you can get updated timezone files from a later patch set for the same release, 10gR2, on the right operating system, shutdown/startup the database the updated DST rules will be in place. The timezone files are in $ORACLE_HOME/oracore/zoneinfo.
Another unfortunately, any values already stored in the database using timestamp with local timezone datatypes for the affected period of the DST changes won't be correct, i.e. there is no 2010-03-14 02:01 (?) but with older timezone rules in place that would be a valid timestamp. The data has to be saved before updating the timezone file, and re-translated to timestamp w/local tz datatypes after the update.
IMHO storing literal timezone info isn't an ideal practice, let the client settings do the time interpretation, time is always changing. Its the interpretation of the time that gets changed. From time to time. :(

Inconsistent results using the "places" view on the iPad with geotagged photos

I am getting inconsistent results with geotagged photos on the iPad (both 1 and 2) OS 5.01. It seems that sometime photos will show up in the correct location on the places view others will not ( they will not show up at all). In fact I can have a geotagged photo in one folder, synch with iTunes and it will not show up in the places view and then move that same picture to a different folder (which becomes an album on the iPad) re-synch and it will now show up at the correct location in the places view. All photos show up in the album view. Everything is the latest version iTunes, iPad etc. I can also have many photos geotagged exactly to the same location (exact same coordinates) some will show up, others will not.
I have used different methods to geotag my photos. At first I was using Photoshop Elements 8 until they stopped supporting geotagging photos. Now I am using a third party application GeoSetter (excellent free application). The GPS data is clearly in the Exif data but the results are not consistent.
Any ideas?

I believe I have solved this problem myself and thought others might benefit from what I found. It turns out to be what I believe as a glitch in iTunes. iTunes creates a cache of all the photos that you synch with your iPad, iPhone etc. Apparently it does not update that cache when you change the photo. At least not the Geotagging data. The file modify date was changing but that wasn't enough to cause iTunes to update the cache of the photos. I deleted the cache of all the photos and re-synched and presto now all my photos where showing up at the correct location in the iPad "places" view.
I might add that I called Apple tech support and was routed to a higher tier support person and was very disappointed with his response. He basically told me that the "place" view in the iPad and iPhone was designed to be only used with an Apple computer and Apple software and was surprised the places view was working at all with pictures synched with a Windows based machine. He also said he was unable to help me since he couldn't provide support for non-Apple products. Although I understand this to a point I think he was too quick to make this decision. The solution after all was a simple one and one I think he should have known. I would think this cache problem would happen whether I was using Apple products as well. I view this as a bug in iTunes. Apple needs to compare the modified date of the file and update the cache if it has changed.

Start/Remove-CMContentDistribution Inconsistent Results

I have been seeing inconsistent results with the powershell cmdlets of remove/start-cmcontentdistribution.
We are running ConfigMgr 2012 R2 CU3 at the site systems and remote consoles.
My remote console is on Windows 7 Pro SP1 with .net 4.5.2 with R2 Cu3, Powershell 4
I have been using the following syntax:
Get-Content "E:\pkgs\ABC00123.txt" | ForEach-Object {Start-CMContentDistribution -PackageId ABC00123 -DistributionPointName $_}
In the text file, is just a list of distribution points associated with the package ABC00123
Results I get:
Sometimes I get the following messages/errors:
WARNING: The result set exceeded the maximum size. Only first 1000 items used. You can use Set-CMQueryResultMaximum
Looking at some of the logs, it looks like the cmdlet is enumerating through all distributions no matter what the status for EACH DP/package that I specify, this can take hours for 100 entries.
Sometimes it deletes the DP from the package, lately it does not.
The other message I get:
No collection specified
No action actually occurs and the package still assign to the distribution point.
Supposedly, these were fixed in previous updates like CU2, and looks like there was some issues with CU1 with the "no collections specified" error.
I have tried emptying the %TEMP% folder to see if that was causing it
Sometimes, but not consistent, removing, rebooting, reinstalling the console sometimes help
Anyone have any other insight?
MCP, MCTS, MCSA,MCSE

This definitely does not look like correct behavior. Are you using the latest CU (CU4)? If so please file a feedback on Connect at
https://connect.microsoft.com/ConfigurationManagervnext/feedback and we'll look into this for our next release of the cmdlets.
If you file feedback on Connect, it would be very helpful if you provided cmdlet output with -Verbose.
Check out my Configuration Manager blog at http://aka.ms/ameltzer

How to play http live streaming with VLC using FMS 4.0

Hello,
i'm using FMS 4 and i need to play my http live streaming event with VLC
I have had the following result with firefox using the url : http://myip:8134/live/events/livepkgr.old/events/_definst_/liveevent.f4m
<manifest>
<id>
                    livepkgr.old/events/_definst_/liveevent
          </id><mimeType>
          </mimeType><streamType>
                    live
          </streamType><duration>
                    0
          </duration><media streamId="livestream1" bitrate="100" url="../../../../streams/livepkgr.old/streams/_definst_/livestream1/livestream1" bootstrapInfoId="bootstrap7580"><metadata>
                              AgAKb25NZXRhRGF0YQgAAAAAAAhkdXJhdGlvbgAAAAAAAAAAAAAFd2lkdGgAQHQAAAAAAAAABmhlaWdodABAbgAAA AAAAAAMdmlkZW9jb2RlY2lkAgAESDI2NAAKYXZjcHJvZmlsZQBAU0AAAAAAAAAIYXZjbGV2ZWwAQD8AAAAAAAAADnZ pZGVvZnJhbWVyYXRlAP/4AAAAAAAAAAl0cmFja2luZm8KAAAAAgMABmxlbmd0aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJdGltZXNjYWxlA ECPQAAAAAAAAAhsYW5ndWFnZQIAA2VuZwAACQMABmxlbmd0aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJdGltZXNjYWxlAECPQAAAAAAAAAh sYW5ndWFnZQIAA2VuZwAACQANc21wdGVUaW1lSW5mbwMAC3NtcHRlT2Zmc2V0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJAAdjdXN0ZGVmC gAAAAAAAAk=
                    </metadata></media><media streamId="livestream2" bitrate="200"><metadata>
                    </metadata></media><media streamId="livestream3" bitrate="350"><metadata>
                    </metadata></media><bootstrapInfo profile="named" url="../../../../streams/livepkgr.old/streams/_definst_/livestream/livestream.bootstrap" id="bootstrap3136">
          </bootstrapInfo><media streamId="livestream" url="../../../../streams/livepkgr.old/streams/_definst_/livestream/livestream" bootstrapInfoId="bootstrap3136"><metadata>
                              AgAKb25NZXRhRGF0YQgAAAAAAAhkdXJhdGlvbgAAAAAAAAAAAAAFd2lkdGgAQHQAAAAAAAAABmhlaWdodABAbgAAA AAAAAAMdmlkZW9jb2RlY2lkAgAESDI2NAAKYXZjcHJvZmlsZQBAU0AAAAAAAAAIYXZjbGV2ZWwAQD8AAAAAAAAADnZ pZGVvZnJhbWVyYXRlAP/4AAAAAAAAAAl0cmFja2luZm8KAAAAAgMABmxlbmd0aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJdGltZXNjYWxlA ECPQAAAAAAAAAhsYW5ndWFnZQIAA2VuZwAACQMABmxlbmd0aAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJdGltZXNjYWxlAECPQAAAAAAAAAh sYW5ndWFnZQIAA2VuZwAACQANc21wdGVUaW1lSW5mbwMAC3NtcHRlT2Zmc2V0AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAJAAdjdXN0ZGVmC gAAAAAAAAk=
                    </metadata></media><bootstrapInfo profile="named" url="../../../../streams/livepkgr.old/streams/_definst_/livestream1/livestream1.bootstrap " id="bootstrap7580">
          </bootstrapInfo>
</manifest>
How can i play that event with VLC?
Regards,

Problem solved - thanks to JayCharles. I forgot to set the live attribute. Here's the working code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml">
    <mx:HBox>
         <mx:VideoDisplay
             live="true"
             autoBandWidthDetection="false"
             source="rtmp://localhost/live/livestream"/>
     </mx:HBox>
</mx:Application>

HT3130 trying to export a 4 minute video to desktop. Only 1:08 seconds exports. I've tried other clips and they all cut at 1:08. Used different exports like Quicktime with the same results.

trying to export a 4 minute video to desktop. Only 1:08 seconds exports. I've tried other clips and they all cut at 1:08. Used different exports like Quicktime with the same results.

Good to hear that you've had some success with the import.
I tried 3 times to do it before I finally changed it to H.264, and it worked on the first try. The quality of the compression was terrible with those settings compared to my standard settings, but I'm just glad it worked.
Rather than Share>Export using QuickTime and then choosing your own settings for H.264, you may get a better result if you simply use the Share>Export Movie option. Alternatively, use the Share>Media Browser option (as I mentioned in my earlier post). You will be presented with a range of sizes to choose from. Depending on your target, it's usually best to select the highest size available, such as Large, HD 720p or HD 1080p. However, for producing a DVD it's best to not go beyond the HD 720p size, as the DVD will be downscaled during encoding to Standard Definition in the appropriate size for either PAL or NTSC.
In my experience, both these options (Export Movie or Media Browser) produce a video file of excellent quality. The files will be in H.264 format and will have the file extension .mov or .m4v depending on the size of the export. I'm assuming that your camera records HD video in AVCHD format.
These files work well with iDVD (or other DVD authoring programs). The export process for the presets is optimised by Apple to produce high quality video files at a reasonable file size. So, selecting a preset may give you a much better result. Choosing your own H.264 settings when using the "Export using QuickTime" method could be why "the compression was terrible". You may have selected a data (bit) rate that was too low. There is always a trade-off between quality and file size when compressing video.
So, to summarise, try one of the Apple presets using either Share>Export Movie or Share>Media Browser.
John

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