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- How can I play Live TV on my web site?
- Can I play multiple video streams...Windows Media Player only lets me play 1 at a time... ?
- Where can I find information on troubleshooting Windows Media Player errors... ?
- How can I play video in FireFox/Mozilla/Linux or MAC browsers with QuickTime?
- Will my videos play back on my iPod?
- Where can I get upgrades for DirectX, or Windows Media Player?
- I get the error: The procedure entry point WM...could not be located in the dynamic link library WMVCore.DLL
- Can I Embed a Player in my Web page that Automatically plays my Cam Stream?
- Can I Play WMV/AVI video files in my web page?
- When I try to access my Control Panel, I get an ActiveX error on the page.
- Can I watch videos on my Mobile Phone,
PocketPC, or Palm Treo mobile device?
- Can I make a Movie from my TimeLapse or Snapshot images?
- Issues running uViewIt on Windows Vista.
- Can I start/stop uViewIt on a schedule?
How can I play Live TV on my web site?
First, you would need to install a TV card in your computer. There are many TV cards both PCI and USB2 that would work great for live TV. Here are some brands: Hauppauge WinTV Go, WinTV-PVR 150, ATI TV Wonder 200, PinnacleSystems PCTV, etc. Once the TV card is installed and your Cable tv or antenna is connected, download and install uViewIt Software from here.
At this point your are ready to watch your own Live TV from anywhere, change channels, and embed your TV in your own web site. Be sure to log on to your Control Panel and configure your TV viewing settings. Remember that your computer with your TV card must be "always on" and have an Internet connection. To play your TV in your web page, see the FAQs below for instructions.
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Can I play multiple video streams...Windows Media Player only lets me play 1 at a time... ?
Yes, you can play multiple video/audio streams at the same time. Here's how:
Many versions of Windows still contain the Classic Windows Media Player 6.4. To
open this player, click Start -> Run, then type "mplayer2.exe" (without quotes),
and hit Enter. If you see Windows Media Player start, then you have the 6.4
version. If not, you can download it
here.
Then, on the WMP 6.4 menu select View -> Options. Then select the Player tab and
choose "Open a new player for each media file played" then click OK.
Now to Play Multiple Streams:
Click on the video stream link you want to watch (your newer WMP player should
start playing it). While the video is playing in this player, right click on it
and select Properties. Now highlight the URL next to Location: , then Copy it
(Ctrl-C), open WMP 6.4, if it's not already open, hit Ctrl-O and Paste (Ctrl-V)
the URL into the Open dialog box and click OK.
Your video stream should now start playing. When you first play the video in WMP
6.4 it may need to download and install a codec. You can now close the other WMP.
Repeat these steps for each video stream you want to watch.
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Where can I find information on troubleshooting Windows Media Player errors...
If you get error: 0xC00D1197 (Cannot Play this file), the most popular
solution is to reinstall your version of Windows Media Player. For example, if
you have WMP 10 then reinstall that version.
Also, look
here for information on troubleshooting WMP issues.
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How can I play video in FireFox/Mozilla/Linux or MAC browsers with QuickTime?
You want to be able to play WMV/WMA files...
For FireFox try these
plug-ins
For Mac try
this or this
To play Windows Media (wmv/wma) files in Linux, try the MPlayer and mplayerplug-in. Just download and compile MPlayer first, then install mplayerplug-in.
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Will my videos play back on my iPod?
Yes, you can download the
3ivx codecs that uViewIt uses to record in iPod
format from: www.3ivx.com
I think there is a small cost for these codecs, but it is worth it if you
want to play on QuickTime/iPod, Oh, and I also noticed the 3ivx videos play
perfect on YouTube where the other codecs I tried had problems.
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Where can I get upgrades for DirectX, or Windows Media Player?
Microsoft Windows Media Player 9
Microsoft DirectX
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I get the error: The procedure entry point WM...could not be located in the dynamic link library WMVCore.DLL
To fix this error you will need to install Windows Media Player 9 or better and reboot the system.
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Can I Embed a Player in my Web page that Automatically plays my Cam Stream?
Yes, just paste the following code into your web page and replace the end of
the src= link with your own id:
Note: your entire src= and id can be found from within your Control Panel, make
sure your device is online and right click the "view" link, then
Copy Shortcut, now just Paste that into your web page.
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
SRC="http://ms1.uviewit.com:88/msft.asp?id=<<your id here (no
brackets)>>"
WIDTH="124"
HEIGHT="94"
AUTOSTART="1"
SHOWCONTROLS="0"
VOLUME=-450
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp">
</EMBED>
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Can I Play WMV/AVI video files in my web page?
Yes, just paste the following code into your web page and replace the end of
the src= link with the path and name of your video. You will need to adjust the
Width and Height parameters to match your video:
<OBJECT ID="MediaPlayer" WIDTH="192" HEIGHT="190"
CLASSID="CLSID:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95"
STANDBY="Loading Windows Media Player components..."
TYPE="application/x-oleobject">
<PARAM NAME="FileName" VALUE="videofilename.wmv">
<PARAM name="ShowControls" VALUE="false">
<param name="ShowStatusBar" value="false">
<PARAM name="ShowDisplay" VALUE="false">
<PARAM name="autostart" VALUE="true">
<EMBED TYPE="application/x-mplayer2"
SRC="videofilename.wmv"
NAME="MediaPlayer"
WIDTH="192"
HEIGHT="190"
ShowControls="0"
ShowStatusBar="0"
ShowDisplay="0"
autostart="1"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT>
Also, you can convert from the very large AVI format to ASF format.
ASF (Microsoft Windows Advanced Streaming Format. Use Windows Media
On-Demand Producer to obtain the ASF format. Get it from
here.
If you want to play multiple video files, just create an ASX file in
Windows Media Player, and set the name of that asx file in place of the
.wmv files above.
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When I try to access my Control Panel, I get an ActiveX error on the page.
To fix this error try the following:
Locate the ''Internet Options'' section in IE and verify that ''Active
Scripting'' was enabled.
Also, if you are using IE7, in the Settings area of the ''Security'' tab find:
''Activex Controls and Plugins'' then locate the selection titled ''Display
video and animation on a web page that does not use external media player'' and
make sure it is set to ''Enable.''
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Can I watch videos on my Mobile Phone, PocketPC, or Palm Treo mobile device?
Yes, you can watch your Cam or TV from any mobile device that supports playing WMV files or Windows Mobile OS. For playing videos from your Palm Treo 700 or older try the Kinoma Player:
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Can I make a Movie from my TimeLapse or Snapshot images?
Sure, using products like Microsoft's Photo Story 3:
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Issues running uViewIt on Windows Vista.
See this HotFix:
KB929182
Make sure you have the latest patches installed. You may also want to disable
UAC (User Access Control).
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Can I start/stop uViewIt on a schedule?
Yes, here's what you need to do to put uViewIt on a schedule:
Make sure you configure uViewIt to Run As a Service (File -> Configure Service), then reboot the computer.
Then create 2 files on your c: drive, one called startUviewit.bat the other called stopUviewit.bat.
In the startUviewit.bat file put this line in:
net start uviewitservice
then save the file. In the stopUviewit.bat file put:
net stop uviewitservice
save it.
Now go into Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Scheduled Tasks and Add a Scheduled Task to
Stop uviewit and another to Start uviewit.
For the Stop schedule, when it asks what program to Run just select Command Prompt, go thru the wizard and at the
end select Advanced, and change the program to run to "c:\stopUviewit.bat"
do the same for the start program.
Then just adjust your times as needed, and make sure the user has sufficient permissions.