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gerrit  
#1 Posted : Sunday, March 18, 2018 8:19:28 AM(UTC)
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I use Album art of our radio broadcast system in the Title Overlay.
By Image1 the pad (browse) to my image is C:\Test\NowPlaying.jpg
This won't refresh. Anyone a suggestion?

By source I see txt and sheets etc. But I can't find info how to work with a picture that way.
(Now playing text by source works great!)
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#2 Posted : Sunday, March 18, 2018 2:41:05 PM(UTC)
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are you refering to using datasources ?
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#3 Posted : Sunday, March 18, 2018 3:38:16 PM(UTC)
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Yes I want to use datasources.
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#4 Posted : Sunday, March 18, 2018 4:36:40 PM(UTC)
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#5 Posted : Tuesday, March 20, 2018 4:57:47 PM(UTC)
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Thx!
So I make an xml by Openoffice.... See attachement.
I use insert>picture>NowPlaying.jpg

The xml doesn't seem to consist an picture. What's goes wrong?
Because of this i can't find my xpath.

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#6 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:04:03 AM(UTC)
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What is the file supposed to contain ? as is xml file is NOT usefull at all !
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#7 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:20:55 PM(UTC)
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Ok, I see my fault.

Now it contains:

<root>
<HeaderText>
<HeaderText>Dan Testing</HeaderText>
</HeaderText>
<Image>
<img src="file:///C:/Test/NowPlaying1.jpg"/>
</Image>
<BodyText>
<p>This is a test of the body text<br /></p>
</BodyText>
<ShowLinkArrow>false</ShowLinkArrow>
</root>


Xpath is /root/Image/img

This results in>>> src1 > file:///C:/Test/NowPlaying1.jpg

This gives text but no picture in preview (Title editor in Vmix)

Help! Thx
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#8 Posted : Wednesday, March 21, 2018 5:18:28 PM(UTC)
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It should not be "file:///C:/Test/NowPlaying1.jpg" but "C:/Test/NowPlaying1.jpg"

Should have been clear from the link i gave previously
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#9 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 3:56:59 AM(UTC)
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I already tried that. But this gives the same result.
It loads text instead off a picture
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#10 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:32:02 AM(UTC)
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are you sure you are trying to replace an image rather then a text field in the title ?

i tried your xml (corrected) and it woks ok
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#11 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 4:56:18 AM(UTC)
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Thx for your reply.

Yes I'm sure.
See attachement.
Text>>> text file with artist and song title

Xml>>> picture of the album art

The screenshot show a picture of album art this is because I put it in with the title editor (browse). After that I give the picture a pad in Vmix >>>xml file
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vmix.jpg (444kb) downloaded 14 time(s).

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#12 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:39:04 AM(UTC)
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have you tried to specify the collumn instead of auto ?
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#13 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 6:01:44 AM(UTC)
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Yes. This works collumn is now src1

But one thing. When the next song plays the picture (NowPlaying1.jpg) is re-writen (same name).
The picture in title Vmix doesn't refresh
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#14 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 12:45:35 PM(UTC)
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It doesnt respond as there no real change (same filename), its the same data. I do not know the criteria on which datasource changes is based on

I actually wonder why you would change the album image to the same name while i imagine they are all individual seperate items you can select based on te song or whatever criteria you are using.

There is somewhere in this forum a title with script posted by Martin (vMix) that deals with reloading an image based on it being edited/updated

edit: found it ; https://forums.vmix.com/default....osts&m=5025#post5025
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#15 Posted : Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:23:10 PM(UTC)
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I could work with different names. Artist or Song name or even time stamp.
But the Xml file works with a hard route >>> C:\Test\Madonna.jpg
next song is Micheal.jpg but the xml file doesn't now if I don't change it manual.
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#16 Posted : Friday, March 23, 2018 12:46:25 AM(UTC)
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The whole point of the Datasources is the get UPDATES/CHANGES on data it contains.
Would be bad practise to reload and redisplay , especially big files, just for the heck of it and loose focus on vMix's main purpose.

Think you rather need to look into properly changing your data collection approach.

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