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Working videoplayer sample?

I basically packaged up the Yahoo! sample video player widget and put it on my vizio TV. It doesn't work. I get a pop-up dialog with no helpful (to me) information for debugging the issue. I press the play two videos button, wait a long time, then see the pop up:

title: Video Playback Error

body: We encountered an error attempting to playback the requested video. Please try again and if the problem persists try again at a later date.

button: Retry Again
button: Cancel

The same code works in the simulator.

Don't ask for the source code, you have it or wrote it. It is just com.yahoo.widgets.tv.videosample.widget (well with a few trivial changes to strings, and a change to the widget identifier of course. Actually l4.tv.videosample.201009.2302.widget is in the developer gallery if you want to see..)

As for the TV, not sure what info you can use but...

Vizio model M220NV
Widget Gallery > tv widget software tells me
Yahoo! Widget Engine 5.4.5
Widget Apllication Framework 1.2.18.E
Launcher Bootstrap 1.2.12
Widget Container 1.4.1.E
Profiles 1.3.3
TV Settings 1.2.10
Widget Gallery 1.3.22

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  • QUOTE (jsl4tv @ Sep 23 2010, 02:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    ...Actually l4.tv.videosample.201009.2302.widget is in the developer gallery...

    The real spelling is closer to tv.l4.videosample.201009.2302.widget
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  • What version of Ubuntu are you using? And, what is the video format information? You can view a few recent blog posts about video support at:

    Transcoding Video for Yahoo! Connected TV Devices Using ffmpeg: http://www.yctvblog.com/blog/2010/06/02/tr...s-using-ffmpeg/

    Video Encoding Specifications for TV Widgets: http://www.yctvblog.com/blog/2010/05/28/vi...for-tv-widgets/

    Thanks!
    -Austin
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  • QUOTE (Austin Teames @ Sep 24 2010, 12:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    What version of Ubuntu are you using? And, what is the video format information? You can view a few recent blog posts about video support at:

    Transcoding Video for Yahoo! Connected TV Devices Using ffmpeg: http://www.yctvblog.com/blog/2010/06/02/tr...s-using-ffmpeg/

    Video Encoding Specifications for TV Widgets: http://www.yctvblog.com/blog/2010/05/28/vi...for-tv-widgets/

    Thanks!
    -Austin


    I would assume you did not change the video but just wanted to make sure :)
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  • I didn't even change the URL's for the videos, the app is trying to get them from Yahoo! servers.
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  • Actually I made the first button try a video on one of our servers, and the second button tries two from Yahoo!. Neither works, thoughthe first button, and video from our servers, fails faster.
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  • Thnk you for the URLs to blog posts I'll read them. But at this point I think the problem is elsewhere. (Sure wish I could edit posts instead of multi-posting)
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  • re. version of ubuntu. I am using 8.04 for the simulator. For the TV I don't know anything about Ubuntu version.
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  • I updated the version of the Yahoo! video sample app in the galery to

    tv.l4.videosample.201009.2501.widget

    The first two buttons' functionality is exactly the same as in the Yahoo! sample app. I added two additional buttons, one to (try) playing a video from a L4 server, and the other to (try) playing an audio clip from an iTunes server.

    All four buttons work in the simulator (Ubuntu 8.04) and none work on my Vizio TV. None of the first 3 work on another Samsung TV I have for testing purposes.

    Please help! This is essentially just Yahoo! code packaged and loaded onto a TV. What am I doing wrong?
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  • After poking around on the forums some, and reading the same message 3 or 4 times I finally understood the thread to mean "even on non-samsung models, apply this patch".

    http://developer.yahoo.net/forum/index.php...ost&p=17610

    I applied the patch to my app (again, this is just the Yahoo! mediasample app with minimal changes to a few text strings). My app's init.js now reads in part...

    CODE
    /**
     * @author jstone
     */

    include("Framework/kontx/1.3/src/all.js");
    include("patch-pre_fw1.3.27-mediaplayer.js");

    include("Javascript/core/event_handlers.js");


    Although the videos and audio continue to play in the simulator, they either generate the same error message I referenced in my original post, or in the case of audio cause the Vizio to freeze / hang. The power button works, all the other buttons seem like no-ops to me.
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  • The problem appears to be that the sample videos that Yahoo! provides are not compatible with the Vizio TV. A co-worker transcoded one of the Yahoo! supplied samples to another format, and it plays on the Vizio now.
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  • It could very well be that the video we have hosted is not encoded for VIZIO devices. We are looking into this and will let you know.

    Thanks!
    -Austin
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  • QUOTE (jsl4tv @ Sep 23 2010, 02:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Vizio model M220NV
    Widget Gallery > tv widget software tells me
    Yahoo! Widget Engine 5.4.5
    Widget Apllication Framework 1.2.18.E
    Launcher Bootstrap 1.2.12
    Widget Container 1.4.1.E
    Profiles 1.3.3
    TV Settings 1.2.10
    Widget Gallery 1.3.22

    That is a typo, it should read
    Widget Apllication Framework 1.3.18.E
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  • Found this also (HDTV settings > help > system info)

    System Info, Version: VIZIO_C1.2.11_RC6
    as the firmware revision on the vizio.
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  • After a conference call with Yahoo! (Thanks Austin, and other's I won't name.) It is starting to look like a hardware issue -- it might be my vizio is broken somehow.
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  • Ping? Any news on further testing of Vizio devices at Yahoo!?
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  • It is likely an issue with your device. We have tested several VIZIO TVs here and have not seen any issues.
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