Chrome no longer supporting plugins

After struggling with Firefox, I managed to get GeoVids working in Chrome and recently had to re-install the GeoVids plugin. Now GeoVids finds the files but when you click on the Video button, chrome displays
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Given the above and the problems with Firefox only supporting one video file and Explorer not working at all, I wonder if it’s time to consider re-working GeoVids as a server- based application using YouTube Videos instead of trying to get the client computer to do the work which would seem to have too many variables that you cannot control.

Here are some examples of dual players

http://youtubedoubler.com/

http://www.swigview.com/

OK this may not allow you to overlay the track display on the video as you can with GeoVids but it would allow easier syncing (via a jog-wheel style interface and/or by specifying the time offset).

It may require a minimum screen size or you could allow the viewer to position the video player where they want on the screen.

The other option is to allow users to upload their video files to your server for processing but that would require extensive storage capacity.

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[raceQs]

Paul,

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. We definitely need to re-think and re-build GeoVids.

The very first version actually used YouTube, but we’ve found it inconvenient. We asked ourselves if we can replay the race right after returning to club w/o the need to upload several gigabytes over potentially slow connection. Thus, current version was born.

Maybe third attempt will be fruitful.

[Paul White]

I can understand the issue with trying to avoid video uploads. I think HTML5 might be the way to go and avoid plugins. There’s an example of using HTML5 to play local video here with source code.

http://jsfiddle.net/dsbonev/cCCZ2/embedded/result,js,html,css/presentation/

There’s also Flowplayer (flowplayer.org) an embeddable HTML5 video player which supports local files here (demo http://demos.flowplayer.org/scripting/filereader.html)

You might try contacting other developers using Cesium, who have integrated video, such as Power Tracks who uses HTML5 as explained in the blog here

https://cesiumjs.org/2013/05/17/Synchronized-Video-with-GPS-Data/

There’s some related developer discussion here

https://github.com/AnalyticalGraphicsInc/cesium/pull/3206

Hope this helps

Paul

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