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Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:42:14 GMT

Hello everyone,I discover now Alfresco and I wonder if it is possible to play streaming videos from the interface of Alfresco share.Thank you in advance for your answers.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zaizi — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:09:12 GMT

Yes.

You'll need to do some custom configuration. Change the default preview page to load a video player such as http://flowplayer.org/. They can then progressively download flv files from Alfresco. You can also configure ffmpeg (http://ffmpeg.org/) to convert video files to flv using http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Content_Transformations.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:36:27 GMT

Thanks a lot for your answer, I'll see that.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:14:28 GMT

I tried to change the webpreviewer per the flowplayer but it don’t work. How do you do for custom this page. If it works, can I preview all documents .doc, .pdf, and .flv ?

Otherwise, it may be easier to put videos in the blog or wiki and customize TinyMCE.

Can you help me?

Best regards.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zaizi — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:38:15 GMT

Modify web-preview.get.html.ftl to check the mime-type of the content to render the Alfresco Web Preview component or Flowplayer.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:20:23 GMT

I did a little customization of web-preview.get.html.ftl file. I do not know if it is good practice, but it works.


<#if (node?exists)>
<script type="text/javascript">//<![CDATA[
new Alfresco.WebPreview("${args.htmlid}").setOptions(
{
   nodeRef: "${node.nodeRef}",
   name: "${node.name?js_string}",
   icon: "${node.icon}",
   mimeType: "${node.mimeType}",
   previews: [<#list node.previews as p>"${p}"<#if (p_has_next)>, </#if></#list>]
}).setMessages(
   ${messages}
      );
//]]></script>
</#if>
<div class="web-preview">
   <div class="hd">
      <div class="title">
         <h4>
            <img id="${args.htmlid}-title-img" src="${url.context}/components/images/generic-file-32.png" alt="File" />
            <span id="${args.htmlid}-title-span"></span>            
         </h4>
      </div>
   </div>
   <div class="bd">
   <p>${page.url.context}/proxy/alfresco-feed/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/${node.nodeRef?substring(24)}/${node.name?html}?a=true</p>
      
      <#if node.mimeType == "video/x-flv">
      

      <!– this A tag is where your Flowplayer will be placed. it can be anywhere –>
      <a  
          href="${page.url.context}/proxy/alfresco-feed/api/node/content/workspace/SpacesStore/${node.nodeRef?substring(24)}/${node.name?html}?a=true"  
          style="display:block;width:520px;height:330px"  
          id="player"> 
      </a> 
   
      <!– this will install flowplayer inside previous A- tag. –>
      <script>
         flowplayer("player", "${page.url.context}/components/preview/flowplayer-3.1.1.swf");
      </script>
      
     <#else>
     <div id="${args.htmlid}-shadow-swf-div" class="preview-swf">
         <div id="${args.htmlid}-swfPlayerMessage-div"></div>
      </div>
     </#if>
   </div>
</div>
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Best regards.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:56:26 GMT

Now, I try to configure ffmpeg to convert flv to wmv file.
I put the Ffmpeg folder in the Alfresco root , I added the bin folder in the path.
I created a file my-transformers-context.xml with the following script:


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC '-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN' 'http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd'>

<bean id="transformer.ffmpeg.WMVtoFLV" class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.RuntimeExecutableContentTransformer" parent="baseContentTransformer">
   <!– <property name="checkCommand">
      <bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec">
         <property name="commandMap">
            <map>
               <entry key=".*">
                  <value>ffmpeg -h</value>
               </entry>
                </map>
         </property>
            <property name="errorCodes">
            <value>2</value>
         </property>
      </bean>
   </property> –>
   <property name="transformCommand">
      <bean class="org.alfresco.util.exec.RuntimeExec">
         <property name="commandMap">
            <map>
               <entry key="Linux">
                  <value>ffmpeg -i '${source}' -vcodec flv -ar 44100 -ab 32 -b 800k '${target}'</value>
               </entry>
               <entry key="Windows.*">
                  <value>ffmpeg -i '${source}' -vcodec flv -ar 44100 -ab 32 -b 800k '${target}'</value>
               </entry>
            </map>
         </property>
         <property name="errorCodes">
            <value>2</value>
         </property>
      </bean>
   </property>
   <property name="explicitTransformations">
      <list>
         <bean class="org.alfresco.repo.content.transform.ExplictTransformationDetails" >
            <property name="sourceMimetype"><value>video/x-ms-wmv</value></property>
            <property name="targetMimetype"><value>video/x-flv</value></property>
         </bean>
      </list>
   </property>
</bean>
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But I have the following error in starting Alfresco.


16:52:07,411 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath:alfresco/application-context.xml]
Offending resource: ServletContext resource [/WEB-INF/web-application-context.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath*:alfresco/extension/*-context.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [alfresco/application-context.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 4 in XML document from file [C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension\my-transformers-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "bean", must match DOCTYPE root "beans".
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.parsing.BeanDefinitionParsingException: Configuration problem: Failed to import bean definitions from URL location [classpath*:alfresco/extension/*-context.xml]
Offending resource: class path resource [alfresco/application-context.xml]; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 4 in XML document from file [C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension\my-transformers-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "bean", must match DOCTYPE root "beans".
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 4 in XML document from file [C:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\extension\my-transformers-context.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "bean", must match DOCTYPE root "beans".
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element "bean", must match DOCTYPE root "beans".
   at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.rootElementSpecified(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleStartElement(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultDocumentLoader.loadDocument(DefaultDocumentLoader.java:73)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:361)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:313)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:290)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:131)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:147)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:171)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:145)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:130)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:90)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:468)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:363)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:313)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:290)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:131)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:147)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.importBeanDefinitionResource(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:171)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseDefaultElement(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:145)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.parseBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:130)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.registerBeanDefinitions(DefaultBeanDefinitionDocumentReader.java:90)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.registerBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:468)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:363)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:313)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:290)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:131)
   at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.loadBeanDefinitions(AbstractBeanDefinitionReader.java:147)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:124)
   at org.springframework.web.context.support.XmlWebApplicationContext.loadBeanDefinitions(XmlWebApplicationContext.java:92)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.refreshBeanFactory(AbstractRefreshableApplicationContext.java:101)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.obtainFreshBeanFactory(AbstractApplicationContext.java:394)
   at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:324)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:246)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:189)
   at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
   at org.alfresco.web.app.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:69)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:627)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
   at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
   at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
   at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
   at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
   at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
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Thank you in advance

Best regards

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

mikeh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:27:51 GMT

The error contains the solution: you're missing a wrapper element, "<beans>"

Mike

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

a_thakur — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:59:54 GMT

A 'sneaky' way to solve this in v3.2 would be inserting a webview dashlet and uploading your video elsewhere :wink:

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

zebra — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:25:57 GMT

I just saw in the path "share\WEB-INF\classes\alfresco\site-webscripts\org\alfresco\components" a content-viewer folder with inside different templates (video, audio, test …). How can I activate these templates?

Best regards

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

sselvan — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:53:53 GMT

Hi Zebra,

Were you able to complete this task, after the above?
If so, please post your solution/implementation here - so that it will be very helpful…

Appreciate your help!

thank you

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

stevegreenbaum — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:51:22 GMT

I created a Google Code project that enables FlowPlayer video previews in Share -http://code.google.com/p/alfrescoshareflowplayer/ Thank you zebra for posting your solution.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

efestione — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:17:07 GMT

hi Steve,
thank you for this project.
Just a little correction is needed in web-preview.get.head.ftl

replace


<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/components/preview/flowplayer-3.2.2.js"></@script>
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with


<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/components/preview/flowplayer-3.2.2.min.js"></@script>
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Thankyou for sharing
Ale

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

mikeh — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:09:23 GMT

Just a little correction is needed in web-preview.get.head.ftl
replace


<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/components/preview/flowplayer-3.2.2.js"></@script>
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with


<@script type="text/javascript" src="${page.url.context}/components/preview/flowplayer-3.2.2.min.js"></@script>
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Well technically, the first is correct *if* there's a flowplayer-3.2.2.js AND a flowplayer-3.2.2-min.js.

If there's no debug version, then simply use a <script> tag instead of the <@script> macro.

Thanks,
Mike

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

stevegreenbaum — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:43:39 GMT

There is no debug version provided when you download FlowPlayer, so I will make that modification.

Note that the FlowPlayer Javascript file when downloaded from their site is named flowplayer-3.2.2.min.js – they use .min instead of –min in the file name. I couldn't get the player to work using the .min, but when I removed the .min everything was good and I left it at that. I’ll add a note to the installation instructions to rename the file to –min.

Thanks.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

efestione — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:52:20 GMT

Is it possible to play .wmv files?

thanks
Ale

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

stevegreenbaum — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:17:10 GMT

No wmv support is provided. See http://flowplayer.org for supported video types.

Not ideal, but video files can be converted from wmv to flv using FFmpeg.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

flopez — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:37:13 GMT

Hi, i've been trying out the video streaming solutions posted and I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible to use another http server's pseudostreaming capabilities (ie: lighttpd) for streamig the files already stored on the alfresco server?

2. Is an upcoming version of Alfresco planning to incorporate video streaming support?

Any advice or opinion on these matters would be greatly appreciated

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

stevegreenbaum — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:49:57 GMT

Hi, i've been trying out the video streaming solutions posted and I have 2 questions:

1. Is it possible to use another http server's pseudostreaming capabilities (ie: lighttpd) for streamig the files already stored on the alfresco server?

2. Is an upcoming version of Alfresco planning to incorporate video streaming support?

Any advice or opinion on these matters would be greatly appreciated

Regarding 1, I haven't tried incorporating lightpd, but would also be interested in hearing if someone else has tried this. As I understand it, lightpd would be a replacement for Tomcat in this scenario. I just don't know if this is supported by Alfresco.

2. Haven't heard anything else regarding native video preview support in Alfresco, except to say that it is on the roadmap.

Re: Can you play videos with Alfresco?

flopez — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:24:15 GMT

Thanks for the quick reply Steve! i've been actually tryin' to use lighttpd for pseudo-streaming but indeed it seems it would have to be Alresco's main server too, out of the box flowplayer-lighttpd working examples and some attempts on redirecting files have't work within alfresco, I wanted to hear an opinion about it because exactly I'm not sure if even with the correct configuration Alfresco would support it… still I'm interested in finding a way to do it since it isn't considered to be included as part o the upcoming versions in the short term, if any news on this matter, i'll be posting here. thanks