WMV/Avi PC Time "Sync/Skip Script"

Songlive · 08-31-2008, 03:04 AM

I'm planning to make a website where I broadcast own made productions 24/7 a day.
I will upload the broadcast in 1 big wmv/avi file of 24 hours length to my webserver and the webserver will stream it to the visitors/viewers.
I want to sync the broadcast with the viewer it's computer time.
For example:
If someone out of europe visits the website and his local time is 15:36, I want to have the broadcast synched with his local time, which means the timeline of the wmv/avi movie skips to 15 hours and 36 minutes playing time.
If someout out of the USA visits the website on the same time (and his local is 10:36) , I want the broadcast to be synched with his local time, so the timeline of the wmv/avi movie skips to 10 hour and 36 minutes playing time, ofcourse without interfering the stream of the european visitor.

Is this possible ? I was thinking of a javascript.

I hope you understand what I mean.

Thanks !

**jamiemac2005** · 08-31-2008, 05:21 AM

Hmm, using javascript this would probably not be doable or would take way too much code... It depends how the broadcast is formatted(filetype etc) and how you're showing it(just using the browser's internal player?)?

Anyway, if i were doing this i'd either use PHP and have different parts of the broadcast split by the hour (or something close) and load the specific hour accordingly Or i'd use flash as a player and have it load the video dynamically... Of course this would depend on your experience &/ what compilers etc you have access to (in flash's case).

Cheers,
Jamey

Songlive · 09-01-2008, 02:43 PM

Thanks for your reply !

I was thinking of broadcasting it in .WMV and embed it with windows media player...

I have 0 experience with this, and I don't know to which compilers I have access to

**jamiemac2005** · 09-01-2008, 03:32 PM

Okay, that sounds plausable, but getting it to a certain time would be hard... I haven't seen this done before either, It's probably plausable in Javascript (recently i've seen "build player" scripts in which the html for an embed object is created dynamically)...

Theres something kind of like a dynamic embed down the page here:
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/jstutor7.htm

it's the basic idea of changing an embed object... are you experienced with Javascript?

(dont worry about the compilers thing, it was basically if you had flash or a PHP server)

Cheers,
Jamey

08-31-2008, 03:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
Songlive Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 12 OS: Notebook: XP SP3 OfficePC: Vista SP1	WMV/Avi PC Time "Sync/Skip Script" I'm planning to make a website where I broadcast own made productions 24/7 a day. I will upload the broadcast in 1 big wmv/avi file of 24 hours length to my webserver and the webserver will stream it to the visitors/viewers. I want to sync the broadcast with the viewer it's computer time. For example: If someone out of europe visits the website and his local time is 15:36, I want to have the broadcast synched with his local time, which means the timeline of the wmv/avi movie skips to 15 hours and 36 minutes playing time. If someout out of the USA visits the website on the same time (and his local is 10:36) , I want the broadcast to be synched with his local time, so the timeline of the wmv/avi movie skips to 10 hour and 36 minutes playing time, ofcourse without interfering the stream of the european visitor. Is this possible ? I was thinking of a javascript. I hope you understand what I mean. Thanks !

08-31-2008, 05:21 AM	#2 (permalink)
jamiemac2005 Design Team Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Northampton, UK Posts: 1,090 OS: Win Vista Home Premium & Ubuntu Hardy(8.04)	Re: WMV/Avi PC Time "Sync/Skip Script" Hmm, using javascript this would probably not be doable or would take way too much code... It depends how the broadcast is formatted(filetype etc) and how you're showing it(just using the browser's internal player?)? Anyway, if i were doing this i'd either use PHP and have different parts of the broadcast split by the hour (or something close) and load the specific hour accordingly Or i'd use flash as a player and have it load the video dynamically... Of course this would depend on your experience &/ what compilers etc you have access to (in flash's case). Cheers, Jamey __________________ Help fight cancer. < I just started =]

09-01-2008, 02:43 PM	#3 (permalink)
Songlive Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 12 OS: Notebook: XP SP3 OfficePC: Vista SP1	Re: WMV/Avi PC Time "Sync/Skip Script" Thanks for your reply ! I was thinking of broadcasting it in .WMV and embed it with windows media player... I have 0 experience with this, and I don't know to which compilers I have access to

09-01-2008, 03:32 PM	#4 (permalink)
jamiemac2005 Design Team Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Northampton, UK Posts: 1,090 OS: Win Vista Home Premium & Ubuntu Hardy(8.04)	Re: WMV/Avi PC Time "Sync/Skip Script" Okay, that sounds plausable, but getting it to a certain time would be hard... I haven't seen this done before either, It's probably plausable in Javascript (recently i've seen "build player" scripts in which the html for an embed object is created dynamically)... Theres something kind of like a dynamic embed down the page here: http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3ll/jstutor7.htm it's the basic idea of changing an embed object... are you experienced with Javascript? (dont worry about the compilers thing, it was basically if you had flash or a PHP server) Cheers, Jamey __________________ Help fight cancer. < I just started =]