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Integrating VideoWhisper Applications with other scripts

admin — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:45 +0000

If you’re using a standard CMS like Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, Elgg, Moodle you can find some ready made integrations to start from, on VideoWhisper.com . Otherwise you should start from the plain php editions.

All integrations include full php in source form, that can be downloaded for free from the downloads section (after registering a free account).
Integration is not affected by the license. When domain is licensed flash application starts in full mode (without limitations and intrusive ads showing in flash interface).

Integration depends mainly on site developers and site logic. We recommend starting with the simple php editions when integrating with new scripts. If needed apps can be tweaked to call other types of scripts (asp, jsp). Most already include parameters to change external script call path and extension.

LOGIN

Flash applications call scripts ( _login.php : vc_login.php, lb_login.php, r_login.php …) to get start up parameters, user information (grant access), update user status.
These can be integrated as needed with site logic.
In example the login script could check cookies/sessions depending on site authentication type and allow user to access if logged in. Also this could populate username, gender and user permissions depending on user type.

The flash applications can also be embed in any html pages or templates for 3rd party scripts and some parameters like room name can be passed via a swf parameter like .swf?room=Test . Then flash will call the external scripts like login script where integration can be done as mentioned above.

ONLINE SESSIONS

The applications can show timer/credits info and also communicate with scripts enabling access/disconnecting users as needed but logic must be implemented by site developers.
This can be used for keeping lists of online users, getting and controlling user time online.

If you want to integrate this functionality in your custom projects see php edition pages and references to the _status.php scripts for each.

Sample: Implementing an online channels list for Live Streaming

The php edition does not use any sql tables so you can easily install it and integrate with a database system of your choice.

You have to build the online channels list same way as it’s done for Joomla and WordPress:

Each broadcaster application calls lb_status.php (about each 10s depending on connection) . You need to add channel name to an online broadcasters table (mysql). If already there update access time to current time. Delete all rows that were not access recently (last 30s) because these users must have disconnected.

Here is how it’s done for wordpress integration:

$s=$_POST['s'];
$u=$_POST['u'];
$r=$_POST['r'];
$m=$_POST['m'];

$ztime=time();

$sql = “SELECT * FROM $table_name where session=’$s’ and status=’1′”;
$session = $wpdb->get_row($sql);
if (!$session)
{
$sql=”INSERT INTO `$table_name` ( `session`, `username`, `room`, `message`, `sdate`, `edate`, `status`, `type`) VALUES (‘$s’, ‘$u’, ‘$r’, ‘$m’, $ztime, $ztime, 1, 1)”;
$wpdb->query($sql);
}
else
{
$sql=”UPDATE `$table_name` set edate=$ztime, room=’$r’, username=’$u’, message=’$m’ where session=’$s’ and status=’1′”;
$wpdb->query($sql);
}

$exptime=$ztime-30;
$sql=”DELETE FROM `$table_name` WHERE edate < $exptime”;
$wpdb->query($sql);

This table is used:
CREATE TABLE `$table_name` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`session` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
`username` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
`room` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
`message` text NOT NULL,
`sdate` int(11) NOT NULL,
`edate` int(11) NOT NULL,
`status` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
`type` tinyint(4) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `status` (`status`),
KEY `type` (`type`),
KEY `room` (`room`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 COMMENT=’Video Whisper: Sessions – 2009@videowhisper.com‘ AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;”;

Load/Embed PowerPoint PPT, PDF, PPS, DOC in Flash

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:34:09 +0000

Flash is limited to loading files in certain formats.

To include something else in your flash chats and presentations you need to convert these files to supported formats. Most can be converted to swf.

See these tools below:

authorPOINT Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

iSpring Free PowerPoint, YouTube to SWF

Google Docs Viewer for PowerPoint, PDF, Tiff

SWFtools : PDF2SWF, SWFcombine, WAV2SWF, AVI2SWF

PDFcreator : Convert any windows printable document (i.e. DOC) to PDF

authorPOINT^TM Lite Free PowerPoint to Flash Converter for PPS, PPT to SWF

Online Video Consultation Solution by VideoWhisper

admin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:06:18 +0000

VideoWhisper Video Consultation is a premium high definition video communication software designed for online video consultations, trainings, webinars, coaching and online collaboration.

It was designed for few to many 2 way moderated video communication. Moderators control what participant is displayed on main screen (speaker) and can also add an additional participant (inquirer) to ask questions or assist. Participants can change their public status (i.e. request to speak), upload and download room files, text and video chat.

Live Streaming on WordPress by VideoWhisper

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:38:09 +0000

The VideoWhisper Live Streaming software can now be easily used to add video broadcasting to WordPress sites and live video streams on blog pages.

To test a live demo of software on WordPress, just register a free account on this site and use the widget link from the right menu to start broadcasting.

If the user is not logged into WordPress a warning message is shown and the visitor can click that to get back to the main WordPress website for registration/login. We also included a plugin that provides a linking widget. You can use that or directly add a link to “http://www.your-site.com/videowhisper_streaming/” .

The widget also displays online broadcasters and their show names.

The watch screen logs in wordpress logged in users by adding a @ at end of username (so broadcaster can see & test his own video as a different user). Blog visitors will be able to participate in chat by providing a temporary username right in the chat application.