Combining Audio and Video...

Destruk,,,thanks so much...I was going buggy searching!!

Well I found the code in the other post, but no real instructions on "where" to put it. I assume that was based off the VideoPlayer example anyway.

I have started with the AudioApp example...I now have 6 categories set up, but I want two of them to be video. I also need to add sub-categories under those audio/video categories, but once again everything I've found starts with the VideoPlayer example, not the Audio example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm proficient in HTML, PHP, CSS, but this language I don't have a clue yet.

go back to the videoplayer example. Modify your XML to include a field that says audio or video, like:

<contentformat>audio</contentformat>
and also, if it is audio, then add something like

<audiostreamurl>http://myserver.com/myfile.mp3</audiostreamurl>

and of course set the streamformat to mp3 or mp4 depending on the content type.

add a parser for that field to the parse_show_feed function.

item.contentformat = validstr(curShow.contentformat.GetText())
item.audiostreamurl = validstr(curShow.audiostreamurl.GetText())

In your Springboard screen code, check if the contentformat=audio or video, if not video, call your audioplayer function:

if msg.GetIndex() = 2
    if showlist[showindex].contentformat <> "audio" then
	showList[showIndex].PlayStart = 0
	showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
	refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
    else
	playaudio(showlist[showindex))
	refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
    end if
endif

That should provide you with a rough outline of how to do it.

- Joel

Thanks Joel!

So basically everything I've done in the AudioPlayer must be redone in the VideoPlayer example then?

And I'm not seeing a "Springboard.brs" in the videoPlayer folder like in the audio folder....which file am I looking at?

Thanks!

Found it (I think) in the appDetailScreen.brs file.

Thanks again!

Not sure if what you did in audioplayer would directly translate or not would have to see your code.

My opinion is that people who really want to learn Brightscript should start off writing a channel from scratch instead of hacking an example to work, but I also understand that many people just want to publish content as quickly as possible.

a simple audio playback function might look like this (one stream only, not a playlist):

function playaudio(contentlist, index) as integer
	audio=createobject("roaudioplayer") 
	audio.addcontent({url:contentlist[index].streamurl,streamformat:contentlist[index].streamformat})
	port=createobject("romessageport")
	audio.setport(port)
	audio.play()
	while true
		msg=wait(0,port)
		if lcase(type(msg))="roaudioplayerevent" then 
			if msg.isRequestSucceeded() then 
				return -1
			else if msg.isrequestfailed() then 
				return -2
			end if
		end if
	end while
end function

"RokuJoel" wrote:
go back to the videoplayer example. Modify your XML to include a field that says audio or video, like:

<contentformat>audio</contentformat>
and also, if it is audio, then add something like

<audiostreamurl>http://myserver.com/myfile.mp3</audiostreamurl>

and of course set the streamformat to mp3 or mp4 depending on the content type.

add a parser for that field to the parse_show_feed function.

item.contentformat = validstr(curShow.contentformat.GetText())
item.audiostreamurl = validstr(curShow.audiostreamurl.GetText())

In your Springboard screen code, check if the contentformat=audio or video, if not video, call your audioplayer function:

if msg.GetIndex() = 2
    if showlist[showindex].contentformat <> "audio" then
	showList[showIndex].PlayStart = 0
	showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
	refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
    else
	playaudio(showlist[showindex))
	refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
    end if
endif

That should provide you with a rough outline of how to do it.

- Joel

Okay, I added the new section to the parse_show_feed section:

'fetch all values from the xml for the current show
item.hdImg = validstr(curShow@hdImg)
item.sdImg = validstr(curShow@sdImg)
item.ContentId = validstr(curShow.contentId.GetText())
item.Title = validstr(curShow.title.GetText())
item.Description = validstr(curShow.description.GetText())
item.ContentType = validstr(curShow.contentType.GetText())
item.ContentQuality = validstr(curShow.contentQuality.GetText())
item.Synopsis = validstr(curShow.synopsis.GetText())
item.Genre = validstr(curShow.genres.GetText())
item.Runtime = validstr(curShow.runtime.GetText())
item.HDBifUrl = validstr(curShow.hdBifUrl.GetText())
item.SDBifUrl = validstr(curShow.sdBifUrl.GetText())
item.contentformat = validstr(curShow.contentformat.GetText())
item.audiostreamurl = validstr(curShow.audiostreamurl.GetText())
item.StreamFormat = validstr(curShow.streamFormat.GetText())
if item.StreamFormat = "" then 'set default streamFormat to mp4 if doesn't exist in xml
item.StreamFormat = "mp4"
endif

and then I added the other code:

.PlayStart = PlayStart.ToInt()
endif
endif
if msg.GetIndex() = 3
endif
print "Button pressed: "; msg.GetIndex(); " " msg.GetData()
end if

Now I'm locking up at the opening screen.

Did I add the code in the right places?

Do I have to bring any code from the AudioPlayer app to play audios, or does it have that function hiding somewhere?

I'm learning as I go...thanks for the help....again! 😄

What does it say on your console? has it crashed to a brightscript prompt? If not, if you hit ctrl-c what was the last line that executed? That should hopefully give you a clue about what the problem is.

- Joel

*** ERROR compiling /pkg:/source/appDetailScreen.brs:
Syntax Error. (compile error &h02) in ...g:/source/appDetailScreen.brs(72)
Note: GC - Found 50 orphaned objects (objects in a circular ref loop).
*** ERROR compiling /pkg:/source/appDetailScreen.brs:
Syntax Error. (compile error &h02) in ...g:/source/appDetailScreen.brs(72)

I'm assuming (72) refers to the line number? if so, here it is:

if msg.GetIndex() = 2
if showlist[showindex].contentformat <> "audio" then
showList[showIndex].PlayStart = 0
showVideoScreen(showList[showIndex])
refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
else
playaudio(showlist[showindex))
refreshShowDetail(screen,showList,showIndex)
end if
endif