[AG-USERS] Shared Movie Player

[Derek Piper]

	Thanks Cindy, that was the information I needed - having the movie in 
the data area. Having used the shared presentation I assumed (I know, 
first mistake) that the file data upload to the venue server was handle 
automatically by the shared application. :)

	Derek

Cindy Sievers wrote:
> Hi Derek,
> 
> Do you have the movie in the data section of the venue client?  I have 
> found that if I have the movie in the data section (and in theory it 
> must be a format the windows media player can read), then I open the 
> shared movie viewer, select load remote movie, then select the movie 
> from a drop down list that is displayed.  The remote sites that you want 
> to share the movie with can then connect, wait until their status is 
> ready, then you click the play button.  The movie viewer gets really 
> confused if both sites are clicking the play or stop buttons....
> I can test this with you if you want...
> Cindy
> 
> At 08:18 AM 11/18/2004, you wrote:
> 
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         Has anyone gotten the Shared Movie Player to work? I thought 
>> it was installed correctly but 'remote' clients don't see the movie 
>> files. I'm using two Windows XP machines, they each have windows media 
>> player on them and set to play AVIs or MPEGs. Both clients can join 
>> the session, and the name of the movie is shown as 'current movie:' at 
>> the top, and the clients know of each other in the 'participants' 
>> window. Loaded a movie on the 'local' client, Trying to 'load remote 
>> movie' on the 'remote' client yields an empty list. I cannot click 
>> play on the remote client even when the local client is playing the 
>> movie, so there seems to be no way to get the remote clients to see 
>> the movie.
>>
>>         Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>         Derek
>>
>> -- 
>> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
>> IRI 323, School of Informatics
>> Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
>>
> 
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> Cindy Sievers           Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111
IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana