autoBuffering -> onStart issue Created Nov 28, 2008

this shouldn't happen. have you tried autoPlay: false, autoBuffering: true combination?

Indeed I have, this is my code...

flowplayer("player", "/VideoplayerResources/flowplayer-3.0.0.swf",  { 
    clip:{ 
        url: '/test.flv', 
         
        autoPlay: false,  
        autoBuffering: true,
        onStart: function(){
			alert("started");
		}  
     }
}); 

...which will result in an alert when the page loads. However if I leave out the 'autoBuffering:true' the alert doesn't happen till I click play.

I tried it and my chrome always crash.

Does not crash here.



HTML setup for the player

<!-- include latest Flowplayer javascript file -->
<script language="javascript" src="path/to/flowplayer-3.2.6.js"></script>

<!-- player container with optional splash image -->
<a href="path/to/video_file" id="playerContainer">
	<img src="path/to/splash_image" />
</a>

JavaScript coding

Following script will install Flowplayer into our player container

<script language="javascript">
// our custom configuration is given in third argument
flowplayer("playerContainer", "path/tohttp://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf",{
clip:{ 
        autoPlay: false,  
        autoBuffering: true,
        onStart: function(){
			alert("started");
		}  
     }
});
</script>

In fact, curiously, the alert pops up twice when autoBuffering is on (when the page loads), but doesn't pop up at all when the play button is pressed.

I'll debug this tomorrow.

Much appreciated.

I have the same issue with the new audio plugin (which ROCKS by the way... cheers api!). I'm trying to start the buffer but NOT the playback when the page loads. My mp3 files are hosted "in the cloud" so I'm trying to have the audio files buffered by the time users read the intros and hit the play button. I've tried two approaches. In both cases, the mp3 begins playing automatically when the page loads:

Approach #1:

$f("audio", "/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.1.swf", {  
    clip:{   
        autoPlay: false,   
        autoBuffering: true, 
        onStart: function(){ 
            alert("Audio has buffered...let's roll!"); 
        }   
     } 
});  

<div id="audio" 
  style="display:block;width:480px;height:30px;" 
  href="http://www.abcdefg.com/longfile.mp3"></div>

Approach #2:

$f("audio", "/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.1.swf", {  
    clip:{   
        autoPlay: false,    
        onStart: function(){ 
            alert("Audio has buffered...let's roll!"); 
        }   
     }
    onLoad: function() { 
    	this.startBuffering();
   	} 
});  

<div id="audio" 
  style="display:block;width:480px;height:30px;" 
  href="http://www.abcdefg.com/longfile.mp3"></div>

Any insights would be great... I might be doing something wrong. And again, great work on the new plugin. I've been passing on the flowplayer website to some of my colleagues.

I think I need to still work on the autoBuffering stuff. I will investigate this and you can expect a second release for the audio plugin already next week or so.

sounds good.

Hello,

Any progres on this?!

I'm trying to tag the player for our Analytics SOlution and the AutoBuffering fires the onStart event, eventhough the video does not start playing automatically.

I'm having the EXACT same issue. Any updates?

Happy New Year!

I'm getting the same problem - with flowplayer 3.0.3. Any solution in sight?

A Work around we did was just set a cuepoint of 1 second. So after 1 second of play your script will execute and not on the buffering. which is pretty much the same as onstart.

You can see a working sample on our homepage.
TopTenREVIEWS

 <script language="javascript"> 
$f("playerContainer", {src:"path/to/flowplayer-3.0.3.swf", wmode:"opaque"}, {
key: '',
	clip : {
		autoPlay: false,
		autoBuffering: true
	},
	playlist: [
		{
			url: 'http://www.toptenreviews.com/video/photo-slideshow-software-c80-video-1.flv',
			autoPlay: false,
			onStart: function(clip) {
				this.onCuepoint([1], function(clip, cuepoint) { 
					pageTracker._trackPageview("video-url-start=" + clip.url);
				}); 
			},
			onFinish: function(clip) {
				pageTracker._trackPageview("video-url-end=" + clip.url);
			}
		}
	]
});
</script>

Jeff like the idea and tried to implement it. when i load an MP3 file NONE of the events, cuepoints etc are firing my debug alert messages. If i load an .flv file conversion of my MP3 it all works perfectly :-(

Is this still happening to other people?

here is my code:

<div id="audio" style='display:block;width:400px;height:110px;'></div> 

$f("audio", "flowplayer-3.0.7.swf", {
	
	plugins: { 
        audio: { 
			url: 'flowplayer.audio-3.0.4.swf' 
        },
		controls: {
			play:true
		} 
    },
	
	playlist: [
		{url:'ep01.png'},
		{	
			
			url:'iDITradioEP01.flv',
			autoPlay: false,
			onStart: function(clip) { 
                this.onCuepoint([1], function(clip, cuepoint) {  
                    alert("video-url-start=" + clip.url); 
                });  
            },
			onFinish: function(clip) { 
                 alert("video-url-start=" + clip.url+"Thx for watching"); 
            }
		}
	]
}); 

I have the same problem. Any updates?
flowplayer-3.2.2
flowplayer.audio-3.2.0.swf

For the audio player, autoBuffering will not work correctly unless the mp3 ID3 tags are v2.3 or v2.4. See this article:

http://code.google.com/p/flowplayer-core/issues/detail?id=138