Flowplayer hiding Drop Down Menus on Joomla Created Nov 18, 2009

Generally they don't put anything in the joomla backend regarding player wmode settings. And its usually up to the dev's of such plugins or module's to offer support for such things.

You will have to modify the code used to install the player.
1st you have to set the player swf to wmode: 'transparent',
Then set the z-index of both the id="player" and of the menu id or class.

This is wmode for the player.

<a id="player" style="display:block; width:520px; height:330px;position:relative;z-index:0;"></a>

<script language="JavaScript"> 
flowplayer("player", {wmode: 'transparent', src: "/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf"}, { 
clip: { 
        url: "/your-video.flv",
        scale: 'fit',
        autoPlay: false,
        autoBuffer: false
    },
plugins: { 
    controls: { 
        url: '/flowplayer.controls-3.1.5.swf', 
        backgroundGradient: 'high', 
        timeColor: '#980118', 
        all: true,
        tooltips: { 
            buttons: true, 
            fullscreen: 'Enter fullscreen mode' 
        } 
    } 
}
}); 	
</script> 

After setting that you will need to adjust the z-index of the menu setting it to anything above 0 Eg z-index:10 or something.

I'm a little bit confused as to what both the z-index are and what the wmode is. I am looking in the code of the module and I see a file that I think I can actually add the wmode to but the z-index has to be in the css file right?

Yes the z-index can be in the css or you can add it to the div style=

wmode- http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14201.html
z-index- http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_pos_z-index.asp

Hello, I'm having same trouble with player hidding my menus in joomla. I'm trying to find what document should I edit to change the wmode of the player. Could you tell me what document is it?

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I had a lot of trouble with the same issue, and this finally resolved it:

<a href='my_video.flv' id='player'></a>

<script language='javascript'>
   flowplayer(
      'player',
      { src:'/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.5.swf',
        wmode: 'opaque' },
      { clip: {
          autoPlay:      false,
          autoBuffering: true  }
      }
   );
</script>

Be very careful how you initialize the player (src before wmode, src and wmode in the same set of braces). Many thanks tohttp://flowplayer.org/forum/2/15206 !

If you guys have solution then please help me too!!! :D