[tonywardle]

Would anyone know why I can't play a video on a Magicnet LFD? Do I have to install some other software first?

[EricL]

Have you installed the necessary codec on the client screen-some video files need to be decompressed by the player agent before they can be displayed//  what format is the video you are trying to play?

[tonywardle]

We are trying to play a DVD but putting the files onto the screen doesn't seem to work, should we put a DVD player app onto the screen then somehow trigger it to play from the software?

Thanks

[EricL]

You could put an MPEG-2 decoder on the client to show video but you must 'rip' (convert) the original DVD to a single MPEG-2 file in order to send it to the screens ansd make it play.

[Bill Coral]

The MagicInfo screens (used to be called MagicNet) are based on Windows XP embedded OS. It is up to you to load the appropriate codecs. I prefer to use K-Lite or DivX. Sometimes you need to load the codec or plugins by launching the Microsoft Media player and then all is OK.

Regards


Bill Coral

[malbenson]

yes, you need to put the codec onto the display screen.

[tonywardle]

Thanks everyone-we managed to upload an .avi and that seems to be playing ok-we haven't done anything else?  One of out tech guys says it plays because media player has the correct codec built in-anyway he is going to transfer the video into mpeg 1 which he reckons will play ok and is smaller than the .avi  It's quite a long video at 23 minutes but he says there may be a slight quality loss-any suggestions? Thanks in advance.