Can you play videos with Alfresco?

[zebra]

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.

[stevegreenbaum]

I'll keep my eyes open as well for any relevant info.  In the short-run, for my particular purposes, when streaming from a local repository performance is fine.  Just a suggestion, but if you submit a Jira enhancement request for lighttpd support and post the link here, perhaps enough people will vote for that enhancement and it will get on the roadmap.

[sebastian1]

Steve,

thanks for this great project!

It runs on my system.
But i was wondering, why you disabled the control options for swf files?

Furthermore i get an error with mein internet explorer (Error on the SIte):

…
this.widgets.swfPlayerMessage' is Null o no Objekt
Line: 1
character: 4424
Code: 0
URI: http://localhost:8080/share/components/preview/web-preview-min.js
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Do you notice this error as well?

[stevegreenbaum]

I disabled them because the controls weren't working properly.  FlowPlayer forum feedback indicated that swfs would not work correctly through the player, but I thought I'd still like to have the option of showing them.

I only noticed the one message that I mentioned on the google code site that shows up when playing through Firefox.  Perhaps this is the same issue, but as reported by IE.

[sebastian1]

Steve,
thats correct, the error is only shown with IE.

But I notices, that with IE, the player is in der middle of the Site (center)
And with Chrome, FF it is on the left side…

[stevegreenbaum]

When I run with IE (8) or Firefox the player is always on the left side of the preview screen.  What version of IE are you running?

[sebastian1]

When I run with IE (8) or Firefox the player is always on the left side of the preview screen.  What version of IE are you running?

I'm using IE8 8.0.7600

[toni_delafuente]

Hi guys, congrats for your great work.

I'm trying to install version 1.1 with Alfresco Community 3.4.a and I get this warning when any video is played, I can't see any video in preview page, but a blank area appears where the video must be, if I click on this area a new window is opened with the video player:

12:07:51,492 http-8080-1 WARN  [webscripts.connector.RemoteClient] Exception during close() of HTTP API connection
ClientAbortException:  java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:358)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:309)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.close(OutputBuffer.java:273)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.close(CoyoteOutputStream.java:104)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.RemoteClient.service(RemoteClient.java:887)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.RemoteClient.call(RemoteClient.java:440)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.HttpConnector.call(HttpConnector.java:128)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.AuthenticatingConnector.call(AuthenticatingConnector.java:289)
        at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.servlet.mvc.EndPointProxyController.handleRequestInternal(EndPointProxyController.java:274)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController.handleRequest(AbstractController.java:153)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647)
        at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:552)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:646)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:436)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:374)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:302)
        at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195)
        at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159)
        at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141)
        at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90)
        at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
        at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
        at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(InternalOutputBuffer.java:741)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:434)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:349)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer$OutputStreamOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:765)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.IdentityOutputFilter.doWrite(IdentityOutputFilter.java:118)
        at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:574)
        at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:560)
        at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:353)
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[stevegreenbaum]

Thanks for the heads-up, I'll take a look.

[stevegreenbaum]

A version that is compatible with v3.4a is now available.

[juan]

Thanks four your work, it has been very usefull for me.

However I missed a feature: playing mp3 files. I found out a small plugin for flow-player and with a few modifications it works.

Here you can find the files:

http://juanrey.net/alfresco-flowplayer.tar.gz

( I also have used default theme colors for the player )