Video Duration Is Incorrect In Demo Smooth Player about rx-player HOT 3 CLOSED

Fixed!

This was a dumb mistake in the date conversion logic of the demo page.

Everything was alright on the player-side but on the demo-side, the code converting seconds to a classic HH:MM:SS format was faulty.

This happened for every streams longer than an hour long. As most of our testing streams (for which we use the demo page for) have a much lower duration, we never saw it.

Thank you!

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Hi!

We don't know of any issue with duration calculations for smooth manifests.

I would guess that either the manifest is malformed or the manifest is conform but has specificities not understood by the RxPlayer. Can you give us an example of manifest with that issue (I don't have to have access to the corresponding segments)?

As to make it work locally on your PC and send commands to it, this could take some work.
For the moment, the RxPlayer is just a TypeScript library (with a little demo page) made to be integrated in other web-applications.
Moreover, as it relies on a JavaScript engine with the right APIs, you will most likely need it to run in a browser.

Still, to make it work locally, you could either:

1. run a local server which serves this page and access it through a web browser. This is actually what we do to quickly tests new features.
2. try to use electron which basically package the App with a chrome as a desktop application.
   You will however need to write some JavaScript to make it work. As we did not test that solution, I have no idea if more work is needed in the RxPlayer code to allow this.

To interface C# with it, it would also not be straightforward at all. I guess that you could either:

1. in the case of the previous solution 1, use Chromium Embedded Framework which should have C# bindings to launch a web browser. I don't know that much what could be your options to control the webpage from there in C# however.
2. For both solutions, interface the two applications (the C# one and the browser one) through HTTP requests/websockets. This again could take a lot of work.

However, the best bet in your specific case would probably to use another desktop-oriented Smooth streaming player which exposes a C# API.

from rx-player.

Hey. Thanks for the reply! Here a sample manifest for you :
http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx:xxxx/vod/_definst_/mp4:xxx/clip.mp4/Manifest
This clip actually 02:56:06 long. But player told me it's 02:02:06. I hope my manifest isn't malformed cuz it will be difficult to fix i guess :)

Thank you soo much all these options and explanations. I will try to make it work cuz i really liked rx player it's seeking quickly and performed well. It's the best i found.

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