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syntheticMedia
Channel Surfer
14 years ago

simplevideoplayer example does not play video

Hello,

Basically as the title suggests, I have not had luck getting the simplevideoplayer to play video. I have tried unaltered from examples/zip, and also tried uncommenting several of the options in appMain.brs (even tried my own video, nothing seems to work). SDK is up to date 2.9. For example, the Carl Venter video debug suggests the srt is opened, then says play failed, but nothing more. The Dan Gilbert and buck bunny video indicates several <uninitialized> errors.

FWIW the same thing happens with videoplayer example as well.

Any suggestions? Thanks!
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  • RokuJoel's avatar
    RokuJoel
    Binge Watcher
    14 years ago
    Try setting qualities to ["SD"] instead of ["HD"] if you are in SDTV mode.

    - Joel
  • syntheticMedia's avatar
    syntheticMedia
    Channel Surfer
    14 years ago
    Thanks Joel that did the trick!

    EDIT- worked for the Venter video but not for the Gilbert video (made sure to uncomment tshowSpringboardScreen(itemMpeg4)) and set to SD.

    Apologies if i am missing something in the documentation

    thanks!
  • syntheticMedia's avatar
    syntheticMedia
    Channel Surfer
    14 years ago
    Thanks Joel you have been a big help, this worked and has made me understand a few other things in the process, thanks for your time!