Build 2034

aware_support

Build 2034 has just been released. It has two useful improvements:

1) Video files can now be embedded inside object forms. In order to do this add an HTML cell to your form with the following HTML:
<div style="width:300px;height:300px">
<<YourObject.YourDocumentAttribute>>
</div>

where YourObject.YourDocumentAttribute is a Document attribute that stores video.

2) Auto-refresh options are now available for trees.
Rather than using auto-refresh options for the form where the tree is defined, use auto-refresh options for the references attribute showing the tree itself. This will ensure a better tree refresh experience for users.

BenHayat

@Support;

Is the video itself actually gets stored in the database as a BLOB object or is the link to a video (say hosted on Youtube or Vimeo) gets stored in database?
If the video is stored in DB, is Aware Server going to do video hosting?
Or, if the latter, do you provide an HTML5 player?

Thanks!

aware_support

The video is just a Document attribute - all options available for this attribute apply. When you embed a video using the technique above the video is played using HTML 5 video player.

hpl123

Nice stuff support and also saw other improvements in changelog.

Can you clarify how to use the new ID in DISPLAY LAYOUT? Does this mean we can direct for example a tab to an already open tab meaning MyTab gets updated instead of another MyTab being opened? If so how does this work?
Thanks

BenHayat

aware_support wrote
The video is just a Document attribute - all options available for this attribute apply. When you embed a video using the technique above the video is played using HTML 5 video player.

Thank you Support for offering this feature, because it solves a big problem of trying to embed a third party Player in an iframe in a form. It wasn't the cleanest approach.
Now we can store the link to a CDN hosting and play it natively in a form just like a picture.
Great feature!
Thanks!

BenHayat

Hi Support;

Regarding Video playback, I tested it. However, it assumes
a) that Video is on the local drive
b) The video is then uploaded to our server (to some directory) to be viewed by user

Now the question is, how can we use this system to provide it a link to another place like YouTube or some CDN video hosting?
For pictures and documents, I can see being on our own server, but most videos are hosted on Video servers or CDN servers that can handle the video bandwidth.
I hope we can use this system to show video from external sources.
Thanks!

BenHayat

@Support;

For Video Playback, we also need to provide it a Scale dimension (WxH) to scale accordingly, regardless of the size of video. Right now, if i set the Div to 500x500 and the video is 1024x768 resolution, it doesn't scale it down with aspect ratio and only shows part of video. Because different videos are recorded different sizes and we need to be able to provide it parameters to scale it down, otherwise it won't work. I'm sure HTML5 video player allows scale up or down with respect to aspect ratio.

Thanks!

BenHayat

@Support;

I see another issue with this system. Let say, I have stored the video on my server, in folder C:\MyVideos and the video is 5GB. The problem I see, is that, every time a user wants to see that video, Aware copies that whole video (5GB) to Aware Folder, with some name starting imgxxxxxxxxx.mp4
a) That is a lot of disk access on the server side to copy for every view.
b) This copy action will eat up server space like crazy.

I think to use this feature in practical sense, these issues and ability to link to external CDN, must be addressed.
Hope this helps.