The videolibrary demo is a good one to read and dissect. It does some
nifty stuff to make the thumbnails dynamically by seeking into the video
stream and pausing playback. You can make a "fileName.meta" file beside
the "fileName.flv" file on the server, that contains key:value pairs,
one on each line, which give extra information about the video,
including title, description and thumbnail time. (Can't remember the key
name off the top of my head for thumbnail time, but look in the video
thumbnail code.) That lets you specify the time in seconds into the
video to display as a thumbnail. Eventually that application should let
users who upload videos enter their own title, description and set the
thumbnail time, and the give the administrator an interface to delete
and edit videos that have been uploaded, but of course that would take
more programming and design to flesh out all the user account
authentication and gui stuff.
http://www.donhopkins.com:8080/trunk/demos/videolibrary/videolibrary.lzx?lzt=swf
Please send me any questions you have, and copy them to openlaszlo-dev
since other people will probably like to hear the questions and answers
too!
-Don
Norman Klein wrote:
On 1/19/07, *Don Hopkins* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hello, Norman! I'm glad you're following the progress, and I'd like to
help you get it to work with Red 5.
Thanks, I have started reading through the source code, especially how
everything connects up through the "videolibrary" demo. I might have
some questions later, but right now I am still too ignorant to ask any
intelligible questions. So possibly in another week or so, I might
have some questions.
Thanks once again,
Norman
