Conference decwet::winnt-clusters

    We discovered this problem at the last Seattle NT Wizards Symposium. 
    You have to configure mplay32.exe on both servers before doing the
    demo.  On each server, do this:
    
    	mplay32.exe %systemroot%\clock.avi
    
    This starts the normal mplay32 application.  Now select the "Edit |
    Options" menu and check the "auto replay" button.  Then exit.
    
    Apparently, this sets a value in each server's registry to tell mplay32
    that it should repeat its display when it finishes.

Hi.

I think I miss something. The Demo that I'm triying
to do its the Jumanji mpeg demo.

Anyway I did the steps that you told me in both server's
members of the cluster, the mplay32 stuff...

Let me tell you what I'm doing:  All the cluster is working
properly.. except for the mpeg demo...
I'm running the Digital Movie Player from a W95 client accesing
the jumanji file in a share disk of the cluster.
The failover of the share disk its working fine but I never see any
Plase wait window, it goes straight to the end black Windows Nt 
Clusters window and the video never continues.

Please I need help with this..

Thanks   JC

[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]

the problem you describe usually happens when one forgets to edit the INI file
for this demo (mplayer.ini).

in there you need to edit the values for the cluster name, leave the LASTSERVER
name and do nothing, you have to play around with RESTARTINTERVAL, usually you
can reduce its value,CLUSTERDISK is the share where the movies are, the bmp
files for the black and please wiat display should be local (!).

thomas 

    Thomas,
    
    Could you elaborate on your description in the previous note.  I'm
    having the same problem.  The MPEG video either stops and doesn't
    restart or the beginning .bmp file flashes up (Digital Clusters for
    Windows NT) and never goes away.  I don't get the wait.bmp at all.
    
    I have editted the .ini file (in the Windows directory on my Win95
    client) a number of ways ... checkinterval restartinterval, etc.  The
    clusterdisk is Cluster1, and the lastserver is Cluster1.
    
    OBTW ... do I need a RealMagic Lite card ?  I don't have one, I'm just
    using the demo player from Dave Mitchell's CD.  I didn't think that I
    needed anything else ... at least the readme's don't say so.

	You basically need a MPEG player with an MCI interface.
	The old one (v1.0) coming with the Matrox Millenium XL Media works 
	perfectly. As well as the one coming with the Real Magic.
	However, the ActiveMovie one does indeed play the MPEG file, but as
	soon as an error occurs it stops completely.
	The v1.1 version of the Matrox one, restarts the movie all the way
	from the beginning.
	
	So you need either a Matrox Millenium with the Media XL option and
	the v1.0 MPEG player. Note that this one does not work with the 
	on-board version of the MGA ships as installed in several of our
	systems. You need the real board.
	Or you need a Real Magic.
	
	If not, you'll have to resort to AVI files, which work oke.
	(Then it doesn't matter what video-board you are using.)

	Pjotrr
	
	PS: Who setup the MPEG cluster video demo for Cebit 97

    I thought so ...
    
    Thanks for the QUICK response.  Luckily, I have a RealMagic, I bought 4
    at 29.95 each from SurplusDirect.