With IE no longer being present at the client pcs of DataMiner users, does DataMiner still support UDP streaming video thumbnails?
Hi Jeroen,
DataMiner does not provide a video player, you can only embed existing video players in our video thumbnails. So, I don’t think it’s a matter of support, I guess it’s a matter of finding a compatible video player?
Which video player did you embed before with IE?
Bert
Even with IE installed and able to open the following link http://127.0.0.1/VideoThumbnails/Video.htm?type=VLC&source=udp239.1.1.15001
In Visual overview it’s showing the message “VLC multimedia plugin is not installed”
We have the option UseIE on the Link shape
I’ve searched for workarounds by trying to use ffmpeg to convert the UDP stream to something else, but I have not found yet how to do that.
With IE we had to enable ActiveX controls in the IE settings, and we had to use the 64-bit of VLC.
Following is also some information we received.
We often see users stepping away from udp streams, and switching to using a HLS stream instead, which works also on Apple devices. The VideoThumbnails webpage has a build-in web video player. Then it’s not needed to use the VLC plugin, and then you don’t have to install VLC on every client machine anymore. But this only works for streams over http(s), like HLS. It won’t work with UDP. So this might require reconfiguring the video devices, sometimes even needs a firmware upgrade to be able to use this functionality. Might be best to check what the options are and what’s supported.
Fyi, DataMiner does have a video player integrated in the VideoThumbnails. It supports http streams like HLS. See https://docs.dataminer.services/user-guide/Basic_Functionality/Visio/linking_shapes/Linking_a_shape_to_a_video_thumbnail.html#configuring-a-thumbnail-for-http-live-streaming
It was VLC