The Video widget

Available since version: 2012

Author: Christian Mayer

Description

Adds a video or live stream to the visu. Currently, most sources do not support this yet.

Settings

For a general understanding of how the configuration files are structured and what elements and attributes are it is recommended to read this section first: Pages and structure of CometVisu.

The behaviour and appearance of the Video widget can be influenced by using certain attributes and elements. The following tables show the allowed attributes and elements and their possible values. The screenshots show, how both can be edited in the editor.

Attributes underlined by ..... are mandatory, all the others are optional and be omitted.

Allowed attributes in the Video-element

Element	Attribute
	Name	Content	Description
video	src	URI
	width	dimenstion (number+unit)
	height	dimenstion (number+unit)
	autoplay	string
	flavour	string	Selection of a display variant. See also Flavour.
	class	string	Add this value to the CSS class so that it can be formated by a user provided style sheet.

Attributes in the editor (simple view) [1]

Allowed child-elements und their attributes

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
video layout	colspan	decimal	Amount of coloumns this widget sould be wide.
	colspan-m	decimal	Overrules the amount of coloumns on a medium screen.
	colspan-s	decimal	Overrules the amount of coloumns on a small screen.
	rowspan	decimal	Amount of rows this widget should be high.
	x	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages.
	x-s	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	x-m	string	Horizontal position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	y	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages.
	y-s	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	y-m	string	Vertical position of the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	z	string	Reserved for future use.
	width	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages.
	width-s	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a small screen.
	width-m	string	Width for the widget for 2D pages on a medium screen.
	scale	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages (default: true).
	scale-s	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a small screen (default: true).
	scale-m	true or false	Enable/Disable scaling layout values relative to backdrop on 2d pages on a medium screen (default: true).

Element	Attribute
Structure	Name	Content	Description
video label icon	name	string
	type	string
	flavour	string	Selection of a display variant. See also Flavour.
	color	string
	styling	string	Change the color of the dispayed value depending on its value. See also Styling
	class	string	Add this value to the CSS class so that it can be formated by a user provided style sheet.
video label #text		string	Text to display a label for the widget.

Elements in the editor

Examples

It is possible to manually edit the visu_config.xml and add an entry for the Video widget.

Caution

Make sure that you only use UTF-8 encoded characters by settings the encoding in your XML-editor to UTF-8 mode!

Footnotes

[1]	The simple view might not show everything. To see all elements/attributes use the expert view.