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Hi Roundakela, Thanks for reply. It was your post on the 23rd of January that initially set me off down the right track. I was able to set up the incoming mail using your instructions. However, when setting up the outgoing mail server (both in the default Android mail client and the 3rd party mail client K9 Mail), when entering port 25 into the settings, it would go and try to communicate with the SMTP server, fail and immediately set the default port back to 587! So even entering it manually, I couldn't seem to force the mail client to accept the port 25 instruction. My method of working around this was to use the Google Gmail SMTP server to route my outgoing mail through (as this uses a secure SSL port 465). Although not ideal, it is fairly fairly effective. My main problem with this method is that all the mail I send over Android (and thus via Gmail servers), will be stored in my sent messages in my Gmail account and not my webmail account. Secondly, some Outlook accounts will have my emails displayed as "From: My correct email Sent by: My Gmail account) which is a bit of a pain too. My guess is that Vodafone, my service provider, block outgoing mail on port 25 as this is link to bulk emailing/spam. I haven't tried to do it whilst connected to WiFi, but that wouldn't be a viable solution either, as I want to be able to send email whilst on the go and on mobile internet. Sorry to have ranted on a bit. I hope this clears up my situation a bit. However, if you have any suggestions on how I can overcome this, I'd love to hear them! Cheers!

I've since realised that this is a viable option. Well done Google on this one!

Hi, Just to resurrect this. Stumbled upon it this afternoon when trying to configure Easymail access on my Android devices. All seems well and good, although I'm still struggling to SEND mail from the devices. I'm guessing the mail reason for this is that I can't get the outgoing smtp port to stay set to 25. Every time I tell it to use port 25, it goes and checks the settings with the server and reverts to port 587! Any suggestions on how to force port 25 here? Or any other ideas I can't get the mail to send?

Hi, Apologies for the delay in a reply, I've been on holiday the past couple of weeks. I use the following HTML to successfully stream to a web browser on a client PC via http: For Internet Explorer classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/axvlc.cab" id="vlc" name="vlc" class="vlcPlayer" events="True" width="500" height="375"> For Chrome and Firefox type='application/x-vlc-plugin' pluginspage='http://www.videolan.org' version='VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2' width='800' height='600' id='vlc' loop='yes' autoplay='yes' target='http://:'> You can then incorporate some HTML that detects the user's browser and then executes the relevant embed code. I'd give this a go. If your stream is all set up correctly then this should stream to the browser using this code. Are you able to access the stream on the client's PC through VLC? If you can't access the stream at the client at all, ensure the client has the latest version of VLC installed and that local addresses are being bypassed by the your proxy, if you are using one.

Yeah something like this would be ideal! Have you any recommendations? I'll have you know that we currently have a blue tit and her 5 eggs in there! Not every day you get to sit at work and watch tits come and go!!!

I'm streaming via http at the moment on port 8080 - this is also the port our proxy uses, so I don't know what impact that will have. I don't know if it is possible to change the http port to something else e.g. one port either side of 8080, or I could always change to rtp and use port 1935 like you did. The bitrate isn't a huge problem as the stream is low quality anyway (just a black and white feed from inside a birdbox, nothing too exciting!). Any further advice welcome.

Thanks for the reply! Windows products don't usually tend to cross my mind as a 'go to' solution. But this sounds like it might be useful - especially since the Xibo signage stuff handles wmv natively. For the moment I finally have VLC up and running and doing its thing. I'm broadcasting the stream across our LAN via VLC and have embedded html code (as above) to get it working within my signage client. What I would now like to do is take it one step further - I'd like to be able to use the same HTML embed code and make a page for our school website. This would allow visitors to the website to access the feed over the internet. I know this is possible in VLC, essentially just taking the network stream and making it more widely available - for want of a better phrase. I just don't know how to get it there? Is there a simple way to do this? I'm guessing the fact that the school network is behind a proxy is going to make things a bit more complicated? Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks for that. I shall give it a go this morning. At the moment, I'm using Directshow streaming of the desktop to get around it. As the picture quality of the video feed isn't great anyway, I'm not losing out too much by just streaming the live camera feed as a desktop stream. Any ideas how to set the size of the broswer plugin? Edit: Ignore that last part. height="500" width="500" placed before the paramname tags will work here. Thanks again!

Just a quick update and a plea for some further assistance, if I may...! I can't for the life of me get VLC to play (never mind stream!) from my composite capture device. I have the capture mode set to 'direct show' and the video device name allows me to slect the relevant device - in my case it's Conexant Polaris Video Capture. But when I hit play I get the duration bar ticking away as if it is playing something, but on the screen nothing happens - its just sits there with the big orange traffic cone on the black background! I know the usb card works as I can obtain live footage from the software that bundled with it. Any ideas, or am i missing anything glaringly obvious?

Thanks everyone. I've tried to persist with VLC, as we use it throughout he organisation and I'm reasonably comfortable with it. I've managed to get the following code to work: classid="clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921" codebase="http://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/win32/axvlc.cab" id="vlc" name="vlc" class="vlcPlayer" events="True"> This works when streaming video to xibo from VLC. All I have to try now is to get VLC to stream from my selected capture dervice. Failing that I may look into Unreal Media

Hello all, Bit of a specific enquiry here, but bear with me, someone might have a suggestion. In work we have a bird box in one of the trees outside. A few years back someone installed a video camera in it and ran a yellow composite cable from the box, across the path and into the nearest room with a projector. The cable goes directly into the projector and the 'action' can be viewed live on the big screen in there. However, this isn't enough, apparently! What is now required is to stream the feed throughout the building and make it accessible in our digital signage. To do this I knew I have to get it onto a computer of sorts, to start with. I got a hold of one of these usb composite devices thingys and can get the video feed up live on the laptop I installed the usb hardware on. My next task is to find a way to broadcast it on the network. I use xibo for my digital signage. A feature of this allows for the embeddeding of html and, as such, Web streams. I know there is a way to do this using vlc, however, I'm having trouble getting it to pick up the composite device, and the embed code is difficult to get right. I know its a bit of a long shot, but can anyone suggest a decent way to get my composite feed from the laptop to the Internet?

What does the 1800s do to solve it? Is that just to ensure it doesn't refresh very often and thus keep the stream active? Unfortunately I have other layouts that are scheduled for break and lunch times and when the default display (i.e. the one im having issues with) tries to load back up, I get this problem. It really is a PITA because it looks really good when it works properly. I just wish I could tie down what is causing the issue, seen as it doesn't seem to be consistent! While this thread is active...does anyone know how to mute the volume on the embedded player? I know you could just tell me to mute the display, but during the break times mentioned above, the content being played has to have volume. So it would be good to have my news display silent and then when it auto-loads my break content, the volume is on and the content will be effective.

Do you have a work-a-round? Or do you just have to reload it manually the way I do? PITA is right!

Hi all, Thought this might be a good place to ask a Xibo related question instead of starting a new thread. I've recently started using Xibo to display to large screen in our main school corridor. So far, every one seems rather impressed with the results. Our default design consists of a welcome to the school message, a quote/interesting fact of the day section and a ticker displaying scrolling school news along the bottom. In the middle of the layout I have embedded BBC News 24 streaming from the BBC website using the following code: [color=#0000ff] [color=#0000ff] "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]html[/color][color=#ff0000]xmlns[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]head[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]meta[/color][color=#ff0000]http-equiv[/color][color=#0000ff]="Content-Type" [/color][color=#ff0000]content[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/html;charset=utf-8" />[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]title[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color]BBC Live Streams[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]title[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/swfobject.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/embed.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#008000][/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]link[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/css" [/color][color=#ff0000]rel[/color][color=#0000ff]="stylesheet" [/color][color=#ff0000]href[/color][color=#0000ff]="SyntaxHighlighter.css" />[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]link[/color][color=#ff0000]href[/color][color=#0000ff]="style.css" [/color][color=#ff0000]rel[/color][color=#0000ff]="stylesheet" [/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/css" [/color][color=#ff0000]media[/color][color=#0000ff]="all" />[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/cs/jst/mod/1/jst_core.v1.2.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/shCore.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/shBrushJScript.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/prototype.js">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript" [/color][color=#ff0000]src[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/scriptaculous.js?load=effects">[/color][color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]head[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]body[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]div[/color][color=#ff0000]id[/color][color=#0000ff]="emp1" [/color][color=#ff0000]class[/color][color=#0000ff]="player" [/color][color=#ff0000]style[/color][color=#0000ff]="float:left">[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]p[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color]In order to see this content you need to have both [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#ff0000]href[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/browse/java_1.shtml" [/color][color=#ff0000]title[/color][color=#0000ff]="BBC Webwise article about enabling javascript">[/color]Javascript[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] enabled and [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#ff0000]href[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/askbruce/articles/download/howdoidownloadflashplayer_1.shtml" [/color][color=#ff0000]title[/color][color=#0000ff]="BBC Webwise article about downloading">[/color]Flash[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] installed. Visit [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#ff0000]href[/color][color=#0000ff]="http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/">[/color]BBC[color=#ff0000] [/color]Webwise[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]a[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] for full instructions[color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]p[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]div[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff]<[/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#ff0000]type[/color][color=#0000ff]="text/javascript">[/color] dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll([color=#800000]'onceCode'[/color]); [color=#0000ff]var[/color] width= [color=#ff0000]640[/color]; [color=#0000ff]var[/color] height= [color=#ff0000]395[/color]; [color=#0000ff]var[/color] playlist; [color=#0000ff]var[/color] config; [color=#0000ff]var[/color] revision; [color=#0000ff]function[/color] reload(url) { [color=#0000ff]var[/color] emp = [color=#0000ff]new[/color] embeddedMedia.Player(); emp.setWidth(width); emp.setHeight(height); emp.setDomId([color=#800000]"emp1"[/color]); emp.set([color=#800000]"config_settings_autoPlay"[/color],[color=#800000]"true"[/color]); playlist = [color=#800000]"http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/"[/color]+url+[color=#800000]".xml"[/color]; emp.setPlaylist(playlist); config = [color=#800000]"http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/simulcast/config_"[/color]+url+[color=#800000]".xml"[/color]; emp.setConfig(config); emp.write(); updateEmbed(); } [color=#0000ff]function[/color] updateEmbed() { $([color=#800000]'codeWrap'[/color]).update([color=#800000]''[/color]); $([color=#800000]'embedCode'[/color]).update([color=#800000]"var emp = new embeddedMedia.Player();"[/color]+[color=#800000]"\n"[/color]+ [color=#800000]"emp.setWidth('"[/color]+width+[color=#800000]"');"[/color]+[color=#800000]"\n"[/color]+ [color=#800000]"emp.setHeight('"[/color]+height+[color=#800000]"');"[/color]+[color=#800000]"\n"[/color]+ [color=#800000]"emp.setPlaylist('"[/color]+playlist+[color=#800000]"');"[/color]+[color=#800000]"\n"[/color]+ [color=#800000]"emp.setConfig('"[/color]+config+[color=#800000]"');"[/color]+[color=#800000]"\n"[/color]+ [color=#800000]"emp.write();"[/color]); dp.SyntaxHighlighter.HighlightAll([color=#800000]'code'[/color]); } reload([color=#800000]"bbc_one_london"[/color]); [color=#008000][/color] [color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]script[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]body[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] [color=#0000ff][/color][color=#800000]html[/color][color=#0000ff]>[/color] I have to stress that this works pretty much perfectly for me, most of the time. This is where I come to my question: Every now and then, for example when the display refreshes, the embedded stream will try to buffer. If it takes a long time to buffer, when the video finally starts to play, it will pause again after about 30 secs and then I will get the BBC's "this content does not seem to be working" page. If this happens I then have to restart the Xibo client on the client machine in the hope that when it loads up again, it will connect properly. I can usually tell as soon as the client loads up whether or not it will continue to play without issue. If the video stream loads more or less straight away, it will continue to play without issue. If the stream takes a while to buffer before the video starts to play, it will cut out about 30 seconds into the feed and the client will have to be manually restarted. I hope this makes sense. Has anyone else had similar experiences? The main inconvenience is if there is noone there to manually restart the client then the screen will just sit with "this content isn't working properly", as the embedded html code has no way of knowing this has happened and won't auto refresh itself.