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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0007299 | MMW v4 | Player | public | 2011-02-03 14:38 | 2011-05-27 00:31 |
| Reporter | rusty | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | urgent | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 4.0 | ||||
| Target Version | 4.1 | Fixed in Version | 4.0 | ||
| Summary | 0007299: Windows XP/Vista cannot stream common video formats | ||||
| Description | Windows XP/Vista machines are unable to stream video (avi, mp4) over DLNA/Samba (Win7 use Windows Media Foundation which is able to stream by reading the header from the end of the file). As of today, 44% of users are still running XP, 17% on Vista, and 24% on Win7, so 0000017:0000070% of our users will not be able to easily use MM to watch video stored to a Media server/Media desktop--they'll have to download the entire content of the file before it starts rendering. If we're not able to implement a quick/low risk solution, an alternate approach is to facilitate use of an alternate video rendering engine (e.g. plugin to enable the use of VLC). | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 1376 | ||||
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One problem related to this issue is that even if MM needs to download whole AVI beforehand it is impossible to stop the downloading by hitting Player Stop button. Player Stop button simply does nothing and user cannot play another file and also cannot terminate MediaMonkey. |
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As discussed over IM, this doesn't have a simple solution. Michal will look into it to find out more details and try to come with a good solution. |
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Fixed in build 1376. I've implemented our own DS source filter, that can read files over http and allows seek. It should support all common formats. |
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Verified 1380 on AVI (xvid, Divx), MP4, MKV |
