Video undefined can't be found

[transmatrix]

Whenever I try to do a direct play, I'm not getting a big "X." I'm getting a message that says "Video undefined can't be found." Streaming appears to work, but the quality isn't great. I'd prefer to use the direct play...

[gnassas]

Hi, it'll work if you wait until the program details come up in the dialog box before clicking "Direct Play." That used to be instantaneous but somewhere along the line I messed it up and the loading has become slow. I can make a fix but I won't have time until next week.

[transmatrix]

Okay, great, thanks. So, now I'm getting a play button with a slash through it. I'm assuming that means that direct play isn't supported for the video format? What video formats support direct play, and is there any way to expand on that support?

[transmatrix]

I finally found a video that works with direct play (it's an mp4, so I'm guessing that the video formats that are supported are the ones that would natively play on an iPad.) However, the quality is MUCH better than streaming, so I'm hoping that there's some way to increase support for file formats.

[gnassas]

Direct play sends the raw video file to your browser so it depends on what the browser supports. I don't think they support very many. It used to be (?) that VLC had a browser plugin that would make everything it supports available but I'm not sure if it's around.

The streaming quality can be changed, look in routes/streams.js line 128 for television and 221 for videos. You can up the numbers to whatever you like but your myth computer may not be able to keep up so you end up having to pre-create full streams before watching.

At one time there was a plan for myth to negotiate with the browser for the highest quality both could support but that effort seems to have fizzled.