I can put the stream into VLC on the android box and it works fine, I can put the URL into the default android browser and it works fine, I can put it into the media player on the android device and it works fine. I cannot however put the URL into xibo CMS and have it play on the android box.
I’ve tried the RTSP method, hls and via local video
That address should also work when entered in the HLS module on newer versions of Android, but won’t work with Android 4 and potentially not with Android 5.
The Player itself has no involvement in the playback of videos - streamed or not. It is purely your device’s firmware and the native Android media playback engine that handle this.
We are using DSDevices with xibo installed on them and are currently running on Android 4.4.4 and xibo 1.8.0 could this be reason why it is not playing?
LocalVideo won’t play in the preview at all, as the resources required to play it are by definition assumed only to be available locally to the Player.
As a side note, you must not have “web” in the URL you use to access the CMS. You have it installed incorrectly and will have issues as a result. Please check the installation guide which explains how to correctly install the CMS, or use Docker if you’d prefer not to have to worry about that.
Ok. I have assigned layout created containing the HLS stream, and launching on a windows client. it seems to appear blank after waiting a long time. what should be done?
LocalVideo only works for HLS on Android. If you’re using Windows, you should use the dedicated HLS widget. You must be running Windows 8.1 or later for HLS support to work.
Ok , got it. Will get the client to work on win 8.1 and above (currently its win 7). Also, I wanted to learn how to enable the HLS widget ?
I see the issue resolution has changes listed here https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo/issues/980, but there is no help / tutorial related to how to enable that widget. As in, what modifications are required. Could you please help regarding that?
Hi Alex, I tried with the client on wind 10 this time. Created campaign, granted permissions, created layout (made it part of campaign), gave that permissions as well, added the display to CMS, did schedule now on the campaign (ideally, that should schedule the content across all layouts within the campaign , right). Still, there is no live streaming on the client. When I play , or fetch the m3u8 its available on browser. But not showing on xibo windows client. Can you please suggest
am i not scheduling it properly? there is no hls.min.js getting pushed at the client end. and layout doesnt get downloaded either. Should I be applying the layout on display page individually also?
Ok, I edited the file only, didn’t recompile. How to re-compile only one widget? Or do you mean recreating, as in deleting the module and re-adding it from modules page?
Also, I hope display order and priority left blank is not causing trouble.
I mean that you need to either delete the HLS widget from your layout and recreate it, or edit it in some way (eg change the URL and then change it back again).
Yes, it works now so, this change that I had to make (calling the extra js resources during getResources() ) , is the kind of issue in every widget that sometimes dont work? like the clock widget. It seems to not work at times, and I can see that the required JS files are not pushed into the client when scheduled.
