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Several clips as one (playlist?) Created Jul 26, 2010

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greg

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Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Jul 26, 2010

Hi

I'm trying to play several clips, like a playlist, but as if they were only one long clip (the user should be able to rewind without knowing there is actually several files).

I've tried "instream" playlist with no success.

Any idea?

TIA

greg

PS: sorry for the dumb question, but how can I search the forums???

greg

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» Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 3, 2010

Reply to: Several clips as one (playlist?), from greg
Nobody has an idea????

Christian Ebert
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» Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 3, 2010

Reply to: Several clips as one (playlist?), from greg
Have you looked at the "Combining Streams" example at

http://flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/rtmp.html

As you're not exactly forthcoming with details, it's hard to guess what's going wrong. Therefore either post your exact code or give us a link to a minimal sample page that demonstrates the problem.

Thank you.

As for searching: have you tried the search box in the upper right corner of this very page ;-)

greg

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» » Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 4, 2010

Reply to: » Several clips as one (playlist?), from blacktrash
Thanks for your reply.

I tried the possibility you mentioned; the problem is I need to specify the durations. I'd prefer not to, but if it's the only way I'll use that.

For the search box, it seems it searches only the website; I've been trying various search terms with no hits on the forums.

Christian Ebert
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» » » Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 4, 2010

Reply to: » » Several clips as one (playlist?), from greg
My guess is that the durations are needed to create the overall duration and a useful scrubber etc. Flowplayer can only no the metadata of each clip when it starts to read it (see the onMetadata event), but it cannot read several clips at once. Therefore it needs the durations specified in the configuration beforehand.

...

I just entered rtmp in the search field and got this result page, containing lots of forum posts:

http://flowplayer.org/search.html?q=rtmp

greg

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» » » » Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 27, 2010

Reply to: » » » Several clips as one (playlist?), from blacktrash
>Flowplayer can only no the metadata of each clip when it starts to read it
This is a good point... do you know of any javascript tool which could give me the duration of a given movie?

Christian Ebert
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» » » » » Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 27, 2010

Reply to: » » » » Several clips as one (playlist?), from greg
You might be able to grab the output of some dedicated program like mediainfo or ffprobe or ... flowplayer ;-) via javascript. - I can't think of a pure javascript solution to read and parse movie metadata. Would be happy to be proven wrong though.

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» » » » » » Several clips as one (playlist?)

Posted: Aug 29, 2010

Reply to: » » » » » Several clips as one (playlist?), from blacktrash
good idea! the playlist may be generated by php which could probably read the file's info... thanks :)

loudsites3

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i use different software to combine and trim then import

Posted: Aug 4, 2010

Reply to: Several clips as one (playlist?), from greg
you counld try using software that will enable you to combine all your clips into one then import to flowplayer....

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» i use different software to combine and trim then import

Posted: Aug 4, 2010

Reply to: i use different software to combine and trim then import, from loudsites3
Hi, thanks for the reply.

I don't want to merge the files since the order will change each time they are played.

greg

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» » i use different software to combine and trim then import

Posted: Sep 8, 2010

Reply to: » i use different software to combine and trim then import, from greg
So I found no solution among the documentation on the site. The closest things is "combined streams" but I don't use a streaming server and the "start" parameter doesn't seem to work on regular files. Instreams movies are also no what I need.
It seems that FP just can't do that :(