Getting GeoVids going in 2017

I just got GeoVids working on my PC and wanted to detail out some of the steps.. Hopefully save some people a lot of time trying to get it going themselves.

My laptop is a Windows 7 system, film with a GoPro 3+, and I’m a Firefox user. I started out seeing the film-strip in the timeline but my video was black. So I dug around and found that the problem is that the latest browsers disable (video) plugin support – fox example, see:

https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Problems-with-add-ons-plugins-or/Why-do-Java-Silverlight-Adobe-Acrobat-and-other-plugins-no/ta-p/31069

So to get GeoVids working, you must download Firefox ESR. The 32bit version (not 64).

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all/?q=english

And you must have a VLC plugin – I downloaded the WebChimera Plugin, found at http://www.webchimera.org/download

After installing these two and restarting your browser you should be able to play a local file in ‘windowed mode’ using the fbvlc test page at: http://rsatom.github.io/fbvlc/

If you can playback video with the test page, hopefully video will work for you when you load up raceqs replays.

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[Joe Mattea]

Thanks for your post. But, I’m not having any luck.

My PC is running Windows 8. I installed Firefox ESR (32 bit version). I think(?) I’ve successfully installed a VLC plug-in. I restarted Firefox but, I’m not getting anywhere with your procedure item: “After installing these two and restarting….”.

Can you do a screen print of what your screen looks like when it’s running Geovids using your method.

NOTE: A YouTube ‘how to’ would be great. I suspect a lot of us would appreciate it.

[rob mcdonald]

Great forum. I followed instructions on Firefox. Still no videos. Turned out they were in the wrong folder. Finally got it working.

[rob mcdonald]

Well. I saw the videos listed. Then no video window. I reread instructions and this video played.

After installing these two and restarting your browser you should be able to play a local file in ‘windowed mode’ using the fbvlc test page at: http://rsatom.github.io/fbvlc/

Still I do not see a video window pop up like before.

Thoughts?

 

ps I have restarted the computer after each step

[rob mcdonald]

I attempted to rewatch and you must reactivate the video player and set to always play.

[GRGreg Retkowski]

glad to hear it is still working. I haven’t used it since I posted the tutorial above. I think my laptop is a bit too slow/laggy for the performance to be acceptable.

[rob mcdonald]

The only problem with the revised Firefox browser is the satellite image of earth does not fill in. On Chrome it is fine but not video support

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