Unable to playback video messages

Openfire Plugins Red5
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Apologies for the numerous posts - can you tell that I’ve started in earnest on Red5 with Spark this week?

Spark 2.5.8 on Windows XP, Openfire 3.5.2 (Red Hat), Red5 plugin v0.0.27

I have the audio / video rosters in Spark working and people can see each others webcams etc. Where I’m having problems is the playback of video messages. I can record ok (seemingly) and .FLV files are written to /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams. However the recipient doesn’t get a notification and when they go to playback any messages, there is nothing showing as waiting. The following is wriiten to Openfire’s Info log -

2008.09.17 11:28:16 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 11:28:16 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 11:29:40 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 11:30:04 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 11:30:04 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_11_28_42_GMT+0100_2008_300886 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 11:30:04 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:06:14 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:06:14 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_11_28_42_GMT+0100_2008_300886 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:06:14 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:16:21 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:16:21 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:17:19 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:17:19 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:31:35 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:33:08 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:33:08 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_13_30_31_GMT+0100_2008_187651 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:33:08 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_11_28_42_GMT+0100_2008_300886 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:33:08 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:43:13 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:43:13 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_13_30_31_GMT+0100_2008_187651 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:43:13 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_11_28_42_GMT+0100_2008_300886 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:43:13 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:53:09 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/
2008.09.17 13:53:09 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_13_30_31_GMT+0100_2008_187651 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:53:09 ignoring kate_murphy$nick_chaplin$Wed_Sep_17_11_28_42_GMT+0100_2008_300886 for nick_chaplin
2008.09.17 13:53:09 unexpected sample
2008.09.17 13:54:52 libraryDirectory = /opt/openfire/plugins/red5/streams/

In this case I (nick_chaplin) was recording a message for kate_murphy. I have also used the test application and again it allows me to record but when i try and test playback, nothing happens - Firefox just sits there connecting to localhost (?) with a blank screen…

Any pointers as to where I can start to look to solve?

Cheers, Nick

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OK it appears that the messages are able to be played back - just that the thumbnails in the playback applet are not visible. If I roll the cursor over them they appear and are able to be played back ok. I read about this in another thread but thought it had been fixed?

Also there are still no notifications received by the recipient - they have to go and manually check for video messages. I have tried turning broadcasting on in Openfire (it’s normally disabled) but this doesn’t seem to have made a difference. Anything obvious I need to check?

Finally - there doesn’t seem to be an option to delete the video messages - is this correct? I would expect long messages over periods of time would fill up the server somewhat! Is it just a manual deletion by the administrator affair, or again am I missing something?!

Cheers, Nick

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Thats why the red5 plugin is still in beta. There are still many things to fix.

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Hey Dele, that’s cool, I understand.

Can you just confirm that the two issues (video message notifications, message thumbnails) are both “to be fixed”? It will save me going over stuff which is simply not going to work at the moment… And the method of deleting video messages from the server - at present a manual job?

Nick

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yes, video message notifications, message thumbnails) are all on the TODO list as well as a server-side java application to tidy up the messages on the server using their timestamps.