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Posted by Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

best video player for html

Greetings,

I need some advice, I'm doing a live streaming video feed using windows media player 9.0 on html5, using this code:

<object classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701"
                height="285" id="mediaPlayer" standby="Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components..."
                type="application/x-oleobject" width="360" style="margin-bottom:30px;">
                <param name="fileName" value="mms://my_IP_Address:my_port" />
                <param name="animationatStart" value="true" />
                <param name="transparentatStart" value="true" />
                <param name="autoStart" value="true" />
                <param name="showControls" value="true" />
                <param name="loop" value="true" />
                <embed autosize="-1" autostart="true" bgcolor="darkblue" designtimesp="5311" displaysize="4"
                    height="285" id="mediaPlayer" loop="true" name="mediaPlayer" pluginspage="http://microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/en/download/"
                    showcontrols="true" showdisplay="0" showstatusbar="-1" showtracker="-1" src="mms://my_IP_Address:my_port"
                    type="application/x-mplayer2" videoborder3d="-1" width="360"></embed>

It is working perfectly for about a few hours then suddenly it keeps crushing on me, I have this experience before doing local and now it's keep doing it even on world wide web. Any suggestion what media player should I use that can call an internet IP address with port "e.g. 192.168.01.010:1010"

Thanks and God Bless

1 Answer

A.J. Kandy
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A.J. Kandy
Courses Plus Student 12,422 Points
A.J. Kandy
A.J. Kandy
Courses Plus Student 12,422 Points

I think you need to get more information before you can determine the cause of the crash.

I'm no expert, but my immediate guesses are these - and there could be one or multiple causes.

  • Computer runs out of memory due to a memory leak somewhere in the software
  • Running a video stream for many hours could potentially eat up disk cache, meaning the system runs out of virtual memory.
  • You need more RAM + a separate HD to use as the scratch disk / cache for the streaming server.
  • Your IP connection resets periodically, because you don't have a static IP address from your ISP.
  • The connection falls over due to too many people trying to connect. This is an infrastructure issue - you will need to go from a single machine to some sort of cluster / server / network setup with load balancing. Have a look at Amazon Web Services.

For the moment, If you can run the software with some sort of debug mode or system log active, that might help identify the state of the system at the time of the crash. Then you can maybe start to rule out a few things.

Dennis Castillo
Dennis Castillo
16,018 Points

.hmmmm.... right now I do have a dedicated server and about that video streaming it is a security surveillance live streaming, I can't determined what is the problem due to web browser also is crashing on me and yeah you're correct I have to identify or use a third party software to determine the problem. Thanks for your Advice mate :)