Icould not make changes to the video's metadata directly to the flash drive (may be my Samba settings) so I had to copy the movie down to my laptop from the flash drive, edit the metadata, and then copy it back to the flash drive.
You can use VLC Media Player to edit the metadata (under Tools/Media Information) after you load video. Then just enter the info under "Comments" and press Save. The info under Comments should now be displayed when you are selecting the movie in the Roku Media Player.
I used a little metadata editor (kid3-qt) for the rest of the videos since I am able to save cover art with this editor. I was not able to get RMP to display the cover art though without adding seperate jpg image to the folder.
Even with the Netgear, I had to place jpeg images into the same folder (and named exactly as the movie) for them to show up as the thumbnail on left of movie text. Kind of like dealing with subtitle (srt) files. I have the SRT files in this same folder (they just aren't visible in RMP folder view) but will work when played. You can also ffmpeg the subtitles into the movie quickly w/o reencoding but I just keep them in the folder. RMP will display whatever text I place in the metadata, but won't display the image I have in cover art - needs that seperate jpeg.
The image all the way to the left is the only thing I haven't figured out. Displayed clearly when using a seperate server (Plex or Kodi) but just kind of distorts the one used for the thumbnail. (I am not sure if it ever displayed the jpeg image on the drive clearly to tell you the truth.) The Kodi workaround seems to now have been fully disabled in Roku OS11. (for now).
It is a little balancing of settings between the DLNA and the RMP. I have a setting on the router's DLNA "Keep Metadata on Storage", that when Enabled, then just provides me a clean RMP display. Removes all RMP folder icons and system images (like the folder icons and the default green play button image) but retains metadata comments/info (episode description). This is the normal manner I usually keep it. However, I also have to make sure that the movies are properly encoded or they will fail to show up as available when I have this Enabled. Sometimes, I just disable this setting in order to get a particularly troublesome movie to appear and then play under RMP.
I had actually settled on just using the flash drives/portable hard drives on the routers with the movies/shows that everyone in the house regularly watch because I had too many machines/servers running 24/7 between work and leisure. Since the routers are always on anyways, easiest to just keep everything there and then still available to everyone depending on which network they connected to. Allowed me to power down unneeded computers and servers that were simply running waiting for someone to watch the occasional movie.
The Roku Media Player works great for accessing your stored media, whether directly from flash drive at the Roku device or router USB port, but if you want more of a home media server experience,(full metadata access and viewing), most likely will have to use a router that includes some sort of integrated dlna server software if you do not want to use a seperate server. I like using custom firmware like ddwrt and openwrt because you can repurpose older routers to give them additional functions like this. Of course, you are limited to the supported codecs of the router's dlna server and the connected clients, but I haven't run into anything that ffmpeg or handbrake couldn't remedy.
The one thing I did notice though is that the image displayed in the box when using the router did distort the image in the info screen when I used larger jpeg ratios. When attached directly to Ultra, images displayed properly and clear.
I processed fluorescence confocal videos with Fiji and saved them as AVI. If I import them into powerpoint the quality of the vidoes is comparable to that I see in Fiji. But, if I want to play the video with the windows media player (to show them in fullscreen on my tablet) the quality is extremely reduced. Like the player compresses the videos while playing.
Could you please recommend a Movie player which can be used to show such videos without losing video quality?
VLC is always my go to. If for whatever reason you want to continue using media player in the future, you should do some research into the k-lite codec pack, which may allow you to run your AVI file in media player losslessly.
There is an option to automatically download info about the movie from online. Is there a way to manually add info? Some of the downloaded info is incorrect, and some movies are not even recognized. So if I want to manually type in synopsis and add cover images etc, how do I do it?
Download the software and then run it. Select the folder(s) on your drive for which you want to create xml files. The software finds the files and then gives you selections of xml files for you to choose. Select the one you want and the xml file is created and saved right along with the movie. Hopefully this will make more sense as you use the software. There is some user documentation at the site to help out.
I also note that after adding new movies, the next time I turn on the WDTV it is much slower for a while (reported in other threads also) - I am beginning to think it may be related to this where the system is too busy creating and saving the backdrops for awhile???
I have not been able to get the Flash Player 11.1.102.55 working under Windows7/64 on my desktop on any website including Adobe's. I get a blank window, and when I R-click get the greyed msg "movie not loaded" and the ver number of Flash. I have uninstalled it using 'uninstall_flash_player_64bit.exe' and cleaned the registry and installed it, over and over, cleared all browser history, cookies and cache. Reinstalled browsers. The only way I can sometimes get it to work is to change the URL to httpS instead of http. This works on youtube and on adobe site, but not very many other sites as they wont reply to https. Tried a older ver 10 of Flash, no difference. I do not have this problem on my Windows7/64 laptop running through same network connection here at home. Any ideas would be much appreciated! I have been fighting this problem for many weeks....
I have been having this exact same issue, so I was hoping this thread had a solution. Anyway here are some specific on what my exact problem and configuration settings are. Pretty much a brand new PC running Win 7, IE9, and Flash 11.1.102.55. I get a blank window and right click to get "movie not loaded". This occurs for everything on the web; youtube, CNN, SI, etc..... So I now have it working on my admin account with no issues at all. Loads right up and starts playing. I have issues with the "standard access" user account. When I de-install flash and re-install on the user account videos play in the browser that spawns and the end of the installation and goes to adobes site. I can open multiple tabs on this browser and view videos with no issues. Once I close that specific browser and open another, I can no longer view videos and I am back to the original "movie not loaded error". Any thoughts? JTH
Thanks Chris. Deleting all site data and settings has resolved this problem for me, except that
www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ fails (movie not loaded) But youtube and other sites using flash are loading OK now. I had tried this several times before with no luck, but this time it worked!
I am having this same problem with my site:
www.triart-studio.com it works fine if I open the swf locally and on its own. However, If I open the html file on any browser, except for Safari. I think there's more to it than just clearing out the browsign data. Truth is it was working fine, and then it simply stopped working.
@triart - I'm sorry if I received your attachment and didn't respond. The last post I see from you was a year ago and I do admit I get more email / posts than I can handle sometimes Could you open a bug report at
bugbase.adobe.com and attach your swf, then post back with the bug number? If you want you swf kept private, please feel free to email me the swf again after the bug has been entered. I'll attach the swf for internal use only and then we can take another look.
I am having the same issue about "movie not load" when trying to watch a video on all browers,I tried reinalling the flash player,IE,Chrome,cleaning cache and nothing works.The shockwave is enable in IE but the only way it works is when I put HTTPS on youtube but it would not work on other websites.I tried looking up the issue but there is no clear way to fix this issue.Can you please help with a step by step way to fix this isssue.
Well I get "Movie not loaded..." message on my site but not from other sites in the internet where is flash content. Also if the movie is on my local computer and I look it on browsers it works just fine. I also made flash movie about half a year a go for my client which still works perfectly in the net and I can still see it running, so I suppose the problem that i have now has to consern something related to the server or the domain on which the content is and / or new updates of flash player that obviously just won't show new flash movies?
My swf file is in the same directory as the html-page is and I call swf by it's name "main.swf" in htm-file. html-file is basically same that flash generates when publishing it. So I guess the file is called correctly in html. So can it be that server just won't accept swf files?
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