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Videos not playing - files too large? Created Feb 8, 2010

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olly

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Feb 8, 2010

Videos not playing - files too large?

Posted: Feb 8, 2010

I've been using flowplayer successfully for a while, but my last 2 videos are not playing at all. The installation/code used for the videos which don't play is the same as for ones which do work - the only difference I know of is that the 2 vids which don't play are much larger than those which do play. Could the file size be an issue here or is there something else causing this problem. These problem videos only get as far as showing the 1st frame, but play perfect from hard disk using vlc media player. I also updated flowplayer to version 3.1.5 but it's made no difference to this problem.

problem vids:http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/turkey/mr_green.htm (39MB .flv file)

and:http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/turkey/patara.htm (37MB .flv file)

one which works:http://www.enablerpublications.co.uk/turkey/kaya_bar.htm (18MB .flv file)

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

olly

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Problem solved

Posted: Feb 9, 2010

Reply to: Videos not playing - files too large?, from olly
Have solved this problem now. In case it's of any use to anyone, the problem seems to have been caused by the upload process. I used FileZilla ftp client as didn't have access to my usual ftp software. Perhaps there's a setting in FileZilla I didn't know about which caused the error, but when the videos were uploaded with it, they must have corrupted, or had something set wrongly as when I downloaded the files again they wouldn't play again in vlc media player.

Re-uploaded the original videos using my usual ftp client and they worked fine. Perhaps someone knows what the problem could be with the FileZilla process e.g. is there some extra setting which could have caused the problem?

Anyway, thanks to anyone who might have looked into this.

gmccomb

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Apr 9, 2009

» Problem solved

Posted: Feb 10, 2010

Reply to: Problem solved, from olly
FileZilla has no issues transferring files, but as with all FTP software you have to be mindful of the transfer mode. It sounds very much like your movies were transferred as ASCII and not as Binary.

FileZilla may default to ASCII for unknown file types, while your regular FTP client defaults to Binary. You can avoid this in the future by specifying the transfer mode for .swf and .flv files (Binary). FTP programs should already properly transfer .html and .js files as ASCII.

You can do this in the setup menus, or specifically select the transfer mode for these files when you upload them.