Video Jukebox

I wanted to display some sort of flash video jukebox on my
video webpage that would basically display a list of videos the
user can choose from. The video list would be pulled from an XML
file for easy updates. Any recommendations?
Thanks,
Dave

Hi Dave
Visit my blog, I have one tutorial which explains exactly how
to build it :)
http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/
Cheers
Tiago

Similar Messages

  • Video Jukebox "ipod to tv" ??

    Wonder if anyone has been able too, or knows the process too,use the video jukebox and or album cover art from ipod to tv? I have the dock and av cables.
    Thanks,
    Greg

    No, sadly not an option. Sorry.

  • Need flash video jukebox

    I would really like some help finding a flash video jukebox. Would like a player with either a list on the side or images and descriptions on the side so that viewers can pick which video they want to watch. I have about 5-10 movies on my site, in Flash, that I want viewers to be able to see in whatever order they choose, they may decide to only view one or two then move on. I originally loaded all of the flash videos and their respective players on to one page, but the downlaod time was horrible. And I would like something slicker that a page full of players.
    Any help would be appreciated. If I get what I want I would be happy to post it somewhere for others to download.
    Steve

    No. This page has some that might work. http://3d2f.com/tags/jukebox/flash/. Jalbum supposedly has a template like a flash slide grid that will handle videos.
    The only other suggestion I can think of is to create an iPhoto album with your videos and use that to create a MobileMe gallery containing your videos. That would very easy to do and could be embedded into an iWeb page like in this demo page: MobileMe Galleries. The example is set to go directly to the mosaic mode. If you click on the Grid button at the bottom you'll see what it would look like. Just think of each photo as a video.
    If you have other MMe galleries that you don't want connected to the video one just use the Advanced Settings pane to isolate the gallery from the others.
    OT

  • Video Jukebox / Player - Proxus?

    Hello all!
    I was surprised to not have been able to find much on this.
    I'm a newbie with flash and am working on a page (Dreamweaver) that
    I want to include a flash video jukebox. Basically a list of videos
    the user can choose from.
    I found
    http://www.proxus.com/components/
    that seems to have what I'm looking for but wasn't sure if anyone
    had any experience with it. Any other players you would recommend?
    I probably want something that's been built to work with
    flash as I would want it to look fairly professional and my
    deadline wouldn't allow me to waste time trying to figure out how
    to do it myself. Any thoughts?

    Hi Dave
    Visit my blog, I have one tutorial which explains exactly how
    to build it :)
    http://blog.six4rty.ch/tutorials/
    Cheers
    Tiago

  • Video and Audio Mixed Playlist Idea...

    Ok guys...would anyone else like the following functionality in iTunes?:
    I'd love to set itunes up for a party, and make a playlist that includes BOTH video and audio files (you can already do this....so, cool so far)....
    Then, I'd hook my output up to my plasma TV. When itunes is playing an audio track, it would have the visualizer up, when it comes to a video track the video would automatically replace the visualizer...then switch back when it encouters another audio track.
    Imagine once you had 100 music videos, or even 50 mixed into your playlists...It would be your own personal video jukebox.
    Am I crazy or would anyone else want to be able to "present" their playlists like this?
    as a sidenote: i'm quite impressed how well these videos scale when you play them on a television. on my $5k plasma, they look as good as broadcast television, but not as good as HD or DVD, obviously. So, anyone complaining about quality is probably trying to watch them full screen on a 1024X768 or larger monitor....thats to be expected.

    i was just looking here to see if there was a way to do this for my party tonight.
    guess not. a shame
    so instead of putting videos in the shuffle, i'll put them in a separate playlist and switch over at some point

  • How can i reduce CPU usage while playing video?

    Hi,
    I have recently finished and then published a  project to my desktop which is a video jukebox application. The  application plays music videos in a large popup window upon a button  click. The problem i have is that when the video is not playing the CPU  usage on my windows machine runs at about 15% on average, however once  the video is playing in the popup the CPU usage jumps to almost 90-100%.
    I  have seen some of the developements introduced in Flash 10.2 in regard  to Stage Video and was wondering if this could maybe fix my problem. At  present my application is running on AIR 1.5 with Flash Player 9. If I  simply install the latest versions of AIR and Flash Player and try  running my published project again will this be enough to improve the  video performance? Or do I need to change the settings of my project  within Flex Builder so that it uses the latest version Flash?
    Any advise would be great.
    Thanks
    Adam

    StageVideo is still not available for AIR and until then it appears nothing can be done about this problem.

  • Choppy video playback

    I am creating a video jukebox application that must play a
    music video (.flv) and allow the user to browse through a large
    music collection while the video plays. The video plays in a video
    display component and because I need to display a lot of picture
    data (for the album art of each video) at once I am using a tile
    list with an item render to display the artwork. This tile list
    works fine and displays 16 album pictures at one time (4 across and
    4 down). However I have a very serious problem when I want to
    scroll up/down through content of the tile list if there is a video
    playing as it will cause my video to skip/stutter/become choppy
    (the audio for the playing video also skips)?
    My album art is loaded from a local sqlite database which
    simply contains strings pointing to where each album picture is
    located on my local C drive. All my pictures are jpeg's and are all
    less than 50kb in size.
    I have tried reducing the number of pics displayed in the
    tile list at any one time to as little as 6 (3 across and 2 down)
    and have found that this greatly reduces the frequency of the skips
    in the video but I do still get the odd one especially if I am
    scrolling quickly up/down through the tile list.
    I have also tried to use a different approach to displaying
    the album art as apposed to the logical tile list component. I have
    made a standard panel into which I placed 6 blank image components
    which act as containers, into which I simply load the first 6
    results of an sql query and when the user clicks the down button it
    loads in the next 6 - a bit crude but I thought it might work......
    unfortunately it didn't and I got the same problem as I did when
    scrolling through the tile list!
    I have also tried reducing the quality/size of all of my
    images but have found that this too makes very little difference
    (if any) to my problem.
    Also, thinking this issue may have been down to a lack of
    memory I upgraded the RAM in my PC to 6GB and still found no change
    in performance.
    My PC is a Dell Optiplex GX745 with a 3.2GHz Intel Celeron
    CPU and I'm running Windows XP SP2.
    Can anyone please help me I'm really lost as to where to go
    from here?
    Thanks
    Adam (Flexchief)

    Hello Flexchief,
    is it possible for me to look at your code? you can email me
    at yankeedoodles at hotmail.com
    Cos the first thing that I would think about is trying to
    replace the flash scroll component with a home made scrollbar. This
    has helped me alot.
    Next, the flv playback might be looping for some reason. I
    did a video juke box such as yours sometime back and I found out
    that I was actually relaunching the video multiple times on click.
    This caused the video to be laggy. It was harder for me to
    determine as mine was audioless so i couldnt really tell that a
    video was looping behind my already playing video.
    Maybe you might want to consider some of the most primitive
    things that are often overlooked..it happens to me alot.
    Please do keep us all updated
    Murtaza

  • Issues with sessionId and persistent cookie in WL6.1

              I am using WL6.1 and I discovered the following from a brief experiment using a
              JSP which sets persistent cookies. The results are the same when I use IE browser
              or the HDML emulator.
              The name of the weblogic session cookie (weblogic.xml) is "_ses".
              Steps below. The server logs are included:
              1. Delete the persistent cookies relevant to the server.
              2. Access the jsp. SessionId is generated, say 12345.
              3. Close browser. My_Cookie1=blah is saved on client.
              4. Access server again. The cookie My_Cookie1=blah sent
              5. The server sets the SessionId to Cookie1=blah. The sessionId is set from the
              persistent cookie. Also, the String after the first underscore is the sessionId.
              When I change the name of the weblogic session cookie (weblogic.xml) to something
              without an underscore, such as "JSESSIONID" or "someCookieName", and repeat the
              steps, the sessionId is not attempted to be read from the persistent cookie.
              Why is this so?
              Thanks,
              Niranjan
              LOG AFTER HITTING FIRST TIME (STEP 2)
              ================================
              test.jsp: Hit
              session id (O8tS4HMN3KSYK!1003180768699)
              ctr: null
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS BEGIN -------------
              DEVSNIFF-header(1): Accept=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
              application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, app
              lication/msword, */*
              DEVSNIFF-header(2): Accept-Language=en-us
              DEVSNIFF-header(3): Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
              DEVSNIFF-header(4): User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT
              5.0)
              DEVSNIFF-header(5): Host=nk
              DEVSNIFF-header(6): Connection=Keep-Alive
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS END -------------
              LOG AFTER HITTING SECOND TIME (STEP 5)
              ===================================
              test.jsp: Hit
              session id (Cookie1=59631091!1003180798903)
              ctr: null
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS BEGIN -------------
              DEVSNIFF-header(1): Accept=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
              application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, app
              lication/msword, */*
              DEVSNIFF-header(2): Accept-Language=en-us
              DEVSNIFF-header(3): Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
              DEVSNIFF-header(4): User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT
              5.0)
              DEVSNIFF-header(5): Host=nk
              DEVSNIFF-header(6): Connection=Keep-Alive
              DEVSNIFF-header(7): Cookie=My_Cookie1=59631091
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS END -------------
              CHANGED _ses TO JSESSIONID (RESULT: CORRECT SESSION ID GENERATED)
              ==========================
              test.jsp: Hit
              session id (O8tZKVgE4LuPo!1003182377496)
              ctr: null
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS BEGIN -------------
              DEVSNIFF-header(1): Accept=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
              application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, app
              lication/msword, */*
              DEVSNIFF-header(2): Accept-Language=en-us
              DEVSNIFF-header(3): Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
              DEVSNIFF-header(4): User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT
              5.0)
              DEVSNIFF-header(5): Host=nk
              DEVSNIFF-header(6): Connection=Keep-Alive
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS END -------------
              test.jsp: Hit
              session id (O8tZRy1Wq3o9T!1003182407901)
              ctr: null
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS BEGIN -------------
              DEVSNIFF-header(1): Accept=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg,
              application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, app
              lication/msword, */*
              DEVSNIFF-header(2): Accept-Language=en-us
              DEVSNIFF-header(3): Accept-Encoding=gzip, deflate
              DEVSNIFF-header(4): User-Agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT
              5.0)
              DEVSNIFF-header(5): Host=nk
              DEVSNIFF-header(6): Connection=Keep-Alive
              DEVSNIFF-header(7): Cookie=My_Cookie1=88575204
              --------- HTTP REQUEST HEADERS END -------------
              [test.jsp]
              

    Issue 1 is a know "feature" with Macs using an optical output.
    Issue 2 is still unresolved. Why can't Front Row act as a video jukebox just as well as it can for audio.
    Issue 3 is still unresolved. If I select a libray that has both audio and video files, Front Row will only play the audio and not the video. Seems like it should be smart enough to "switch" to play that video.
    Issue 4 seems to be resolved. I run visualizer all the time now and my TV does not switch out of 1080i any more.
    Issue 5 seems to be resolved. I think the trick is that the TV show name has to be filled in for the system to recognize it as a TV show. Guess Apple didn't orginally figure people would add TV shows not purchsed through the iTunes store.
    Issue 6 was realted to using files that are copy protected. But why iTunes XML file can't just keep the name that I want in it's directory rather than the name that is embedded in the file is still a mystery to me.

  • XML driven FLV player with playlist, can someone please help me?

    OK so ive been working for a client recently building him a new site for his racing team and he wants a video jukebox on the "videos section" of the site.
    Now i am the one with the job of updating this jukebox with new videos which he makes (this happens often) so i want updating to be as easy as possible.
    Im new to the use of XML with flash and followed a tutorial to create a dynamic Image Gallery which is really easy to update, all i have to do is drop the files into the right directories in my FTP client and edit the XML file, perfect.
    I want the jukebox to do the same thing.
    I want to have a jukebox with a "video screen" with basic controlls (play/pause, volume, rewind, seek) on the left and a small vertically scrolling menu on the right that contains thumbnails and descriptions of the videos that when clicked changes the content of the video component to play the chosen video.
    I found a tutorial on the adobe site that shows how to achive this through the use of the "video component" and the "list component" in flash 8 HOWEVER, this isnt very pretty and almost impossible to customise due to the list component and i would like to be able to mimic the style of the image gallery i already produced to keep things all nice and uniform.
    i want to use XML to point flash to the source of the FLV files, the source of the thumbnail jpgs and give the text for the description so that its easy to update and use flash's drawing interface to make it pretty.
    Basically i want to reproduce something like this.
    Ive been searching for weeks now and i cant find anything to help me with this, if anyone knows of any tutorials, books, videos or has any idea how to help me it would be MUCH appreciated.
    Thankyou.

    Try this link:
    http://www.taiwantrade.com.tw/MAIN/en_front/searchserv.do?method=listProductComp anyDetail&company_id=163054&locale=2
    There is an email address and telephone numbers.
    Also look on the box and instructions.
    Ciao.

  • How to display a music album in a iWeb created website on MobileMe

    Hi There
    I have several songs and some Music videos that make up a Music Album (mine that I have made myself do I have the copyright to them) that I want to publish on my iWeb created website (hosted on MobileMe)
    How can I get the whole Album to import. I have try dragging the things from the media side bar, I have also just tried dragging the whole album direct from the iTune Library, but no matter what I try it displays all the songs and the video as separate files and wont import them as a whole album.
    Can someone tell me how to get them as a whole album
    Thanks
    Jason
    Message was edited by: Jason G Telford -- message was accidentally posted before it was completed

    Do you want to have the visitors play each of the songs and videos? You can use a flash based jukebox for the audio files and a video jukebox for the videos. You would only have to upload the files to your server once and then link to them there. With these methods the files don't load until you select the play button thus allowing the page to load much quicker.
    Roddy's iWeb for Musicians site has a number of such examples on these pages: Music Players and Video LightBox Audio Jukebox.
    Happy New Year

  • Album artwork dislay on tv from ipod ?

    Wonder if anyone has been able too, or knows the process too,use the video jukebox and or album cover art from ipod to tv? I have the dock and av cables.
    Thanks,
    Greg

    Never been possible as far as I know.
    Only photos and videos from the iPod can be displayed on a TV.

  • Album artwork display on tv from ipod

    Wonder if anyone has been able too, or knows the process too,use the video jukebox and or album cover art from ipod to tv? I have the dock and av cables.
    Thanks,
    Greg

    No, sadly not an option. Sorry.

  • Creating a DVD that you can select specific tracks to play.. (read on)

    I am wanting to create a DVD that has say for example 10 individual buttons for the 10 different videos (tracks), but want to be able to select just the videos I want to watch out of the 10, for example videos 1, 5 and 8.
    Is there a way that this can be done in DVD SP? I know i've seen it done of other training/lesson DVDs where you can go back to videos you want to specifically look at rather than having to skip to the ones you are after.
    So simply, is there some kind of script or something to help me achieve this?
    Many thanks,
    Ryan

    As Drew said - follow that link and you'll get a few files to download that will help. You are describing a video jukebox and this is not at all easy, by any stretch of the imagination. It involves scripting at a pretty high level, using bit based maths.
    Having said that, the tutorial from the link should get you heading in the right direction. Come back and let us know if you need more help with it.

  • Best way to handle music?

    I am a high school yearbook adviser creating a high school yearbook dvd supplement. The dvd includes many things, video, photos, etc. This question relates to audio.
    I have a "page" for a band. They have several tracks I'd like to include and I'm trying to determine the least expensive way (in terms of disc space) to handle this. I take it there is no way to play 3 minutes of audio without it ultimately being converted to three minutes of video, and therefore expanding a 6 MB song into a multiMB video.
    Am I mistaken? or is there an efficient way to handle this?

    heh... easy mistake to make. In DVDSP speak, a track is a structure that holds video, audio, subs and all that stuff.
    So - you want the user to be presented with a menu where they can select multiple audio clips and have them play one after the other in sequence? What you are describing here is a 'jukebox' and you'll need to use scripting to accomplish this in DVDSP.
    It is something I did some time ago now as a video jukebox, and the scripts are available free. What you'd need to do is to add images to a track and line them up with your audio samples. Treat them as a piece of video, if you like.
    Alternatively, you could still do this with menus, so that the user goes from menu to menu instead of from video clip to video clip. However, don't forget that a DVD is only a valid DVD if it has at least one track on it (the DVD kind...) - you can miss out menus from a DVD, but you have to have a track somewhere in your structure. This could be a simple image as a start up item, of course.
    As an example, have a look at the video jukebox here:
    http://www.dvdstudiopro.co.uk/play-lists-and-jukeboxes/
    You can download the projects and have a look at what has been done there.
    As for your menu - the duration can be left out of things - make it a simple still image and not have any audio paying in the 'chooser' screen. From then on, if you embed audio in the menu then yes, you want to set the duration to be the same as the audio clip. If you use a track then this is far less of an issue, and will ultimately make your disc a more simple structure.

  • IMove loads completely before playing on Homepage

    I have a perplexing problem.
    I just created a 20 minute iMovie that I put on my .Mac Homepage.
    To do that, I saved it as a Quicktime file with the settings of 12
    frames per second and the size of 240x180 and put it in the Movies
    folder of my iDisk account.
    So I've done all the stuff on my Homepage to publish it, but when I
    try to view the movie when I use the URL for it, it takes forever to
    load. I timed it this afternoon at 3 and a half minutes before it
    would start playing. So I thought it might be taking so long because
    the file was so large at 50 MB. But I have another movie on my
    Homepage that's 30 MB, and it loads and starts playing instantly.
    I noticed that the one that plays right away continues to load as
    it's playing, but this new one seems to want to completely load
    before it starts playing. I've tried looking for settings to see if
    I had set something different, but I don't see any settings for the
    Homepage, and nothing either in iMovie.
    Does anybody have an idea what might be happening?
    iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   1 gb ram

    Well, Karl, thanks for your tips about what you did with the original ..I'll try that too.
    Meanwhile - while Discussions was down earlier today - I took the original (..the blockiness came from the original compression with QT 6.5.2, I think..) and played it in QT7 and then just clicked 'Share', and QT offered to set it up as 'Automatic' - which meant shrinking it down to 240x180 (from 320x240) which would produce a file size of 10.4MB instead of 41.1MB.
    So I let it do that, and let it directly upload it to my Homepage ..whereas previously I'd 'Exported', put the exported file in my Desktop iDisk, then sync'ed the iDisk to dotMac and manually created a movie page..
    Anyway: it 'Shared' it straight to my dotMac Homepage, where I selected a 'Frameless Black (Large)' blank page, thinking that by putting it in a 'Large' page that would expand the size from teeny 240x180 to something larger ..which it did.
    But the expansion to a larger size makes it rather less sharp and lowers the apparent resolution. That's because it was encoded with the old QT 6.5.2 codec, not the more advanced, scalable H.264 codec of QuickTime 7. And when seen with QT 6.5.2, some of the black borders on the page, intended to automatically pad out the 4x3 aspect ratio to a possible 16x9 shape, don't meet the edge of the movie itself, so there are white bands at the left and right of the movie. When seen with QT7, the page's black edges do correctly fill to the 4:3 ratio so that there's black all around the edges of the movie.
    [..Because it was originally "manufactured" with QT 6.5.2, this movie's visible when using either QT 7 OR earlier versions of QuickTime on your Mac..]
    I then uploaded - I mean 'Shared' - it also to a 'Frameless (Black)' page which wasn't called 'Large', so it's in the actual 240x180 size and shape which QT 7 prepared, and both QT 6.5.2 and QT 7.0.3 correctly play it back as 4:3 - with black going right to the very edges of the movie, and the 'native' resolution's nice and sharp.
    Both of these load and start playing almost instantly, on my fast broadband connection.
    So what I draw from this is that:
    (a) Smallest useful filesize makes the movie load and play far faster;
    (b) Use 'Share' to send a movie to a Homepage, accepting Apple's default values, to package it so that it loads and plays at its optimum speed, without needing to specify 'Fast Start' or 'Hinted' or whatever;
    (c) Choose the appropriately specified page for the relevant aspect ratio of the movie ('normal' for 4:3, 'large' for 16:9 or HD);
    (d) 'Creating' the movie in QT 6.5.2 gives slightly lower resolution and blockier artifacts than using QT7's H.264 codec, but allows everyone to view it ..and nothing of that is altered by using QT7 to 'Share' or upload it.
    The 'large' version is here, and looks a bit unsharp, as it's been 'magnified', and will have white edges if you're viewing it with a QuickTime version earlier than 7.
    The 'normal', un-enlarged version is here, and looks OK in both QT 6 and QT 7, but is rather small, and therefore loses some impact.
    But both of them load and play pretty much instantly on a fast connection!
    [..Finally: the source of all this was a cable TV programme about films: 'America's Greatest Love Stories' ..which I recorded on a TiVo in MPEG format; then played it out of the TiVo and into an Archos Video Jukebox (..predecessor of a Video iPod, but which includes its own excellent hardwired codec..) in DivX format; FireWired it across from the Archos' hard disc into my old PowerBook running 10.3.9 (..as there's no DivX codec for 10.4 yet..) and into QuickTime 6.5.2; then uploaded that using QT 7 on another PowerBook. And yet it's survived, and most of it looks, and sounds, great ..though rather small, and with less impact now. But I find it incredible that it survived all that so well!..]
    P.S: I could watch it forever, couldn't you?..

Maybe you are looking for