MediaBin MPEG-2 Video Input

surrey2005

I am having problems with inserting an MPEG-2 Video into MediaBin. The video plays on my desktop but will not play in MediaBin. Any ideas or does a filter exist that will give me information on why MediaBin is having problems?

Walter

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Migrateduser

Could it be a matter of codecs installed on your desktop but not on the server?

Migrateduser

I'm guessing you are trying to view a "preview" of the video, generated by Mediabin server. If MediaBin was able to successfully generate the preview, you will see a metadata item called "Video Preview Size" associated to the mpeg asset in MediaBin. If this metadata is not present, MediaBin was not able to generate the preview. That would be the first problem to investigate. As Falco mentioned, you need to have the proper codec installed on MediaBin server to be able to generate previews for mpeg.

If you do see the "Video Preview Size" metadata, you may be encountering an incompatibility problem between the version of the software used to generate the preview and the version used to play the preview. MediaBin uses Microsoft software to generate mpeg previews. Unfortunately, Microsoft video software is not always backward compatible. A preview may not play if it was generated with a version older than that used by MediaPlayer. Reinserting the video into MediaBin usually fixes this problem.

lyman

To be clear, did the file insert into MediaBin and display still previews of frames, but just not support streaming previews, or did it insert into MediaBin marked as a "non-image"?

There are several steps that could be the disconnect. One is, that as was noted what matters to the server is whether a codec is installed on the MediaBin server, not whether a codec is installed on the user desktop.

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd

surrey2005

I have solved the problem by getting all videos in .WMV for Windows Media Player