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jb123

Posts: 31

Registered:
Oct 16, 2009

pass url params without lightspeed pseudostreaming

Posted: Oct 17, 2009

Hello,

I've read all of the posts that deal with passing querystring params and don't see a clear answer how to do this - maybe I'm tired :)

I am using PHP, Apache and IE 8.0 to test. I am not using lightspeed pseudostreaming. I will be passing in 2-3 params and have used a hard-coded param for testing and have confirmed my current configuration is not passing the params via Flowplayer to my PHP page that will process the params.

I read in the posts that using the lightspeed pseudosteraming plugin, passing in the Start param and escaping the querystring are needed but I haven't been able to make this work. I haven't tried to install the lightspeed plugin because it doesn't make sense that I need to use that plugin to pass params since I'm not using lightspeed or pseudostreaming.

Thanks for your help!

Cheers,
-JB

jb123

Posts: 31

Registered:
Oct 16, 2009

» pass url params without lightspeed pseudostreaming

Posted: Oct 17, 2009

Reply to: pass url params without lightspeed pseudostreaming, from jb123

I'm tired from trying to get this to work ! :)

Here's my relevant code that I didn't attach to my post.

I really like Flowplayer and realize you guys have put and are putting a tremendous amount of great work into it. Thanks!
-JB

flowplayer("player", http://www.foo.com/flowplayer-3.1.3.swf",
{
clip: {
autoPlay: true,
autoBuffering: true,
baseUrl: 'http://www.foo.com/pages/',
url: 'play.php',
queryString: escape('?start=${start}&vid=100'),
scaling: 'scale'
}
}
);

jb123

Posts: 31

Registered:
Oct 16, 2009

(Solved) pass url params without lightspeed pseudostreaming

Posted: Oct 19, 2009

Reply to: » pass url params without lightspeed pseudostreaming, from jb123

Hi all,

I didn't receive any suggestions so I took another crack at this and found the solution.

The symbols "?" "&" "=" need to be escaped and that can be done when passing your URL and paramaters to Flowplayer's url: property as indicated below.

(the fix)
url: escape('play.php?vid=' + myParam1),

I removed the queryString property from my code as it is improper to use it in my situation.

(removed this)
queryString: escape('?start=${start}&vid=100'),

flowplayer("player",http://www.foo.com/flowplayer-3.1.3.swf",
{
clip: {
autoPlay: true,
autoBuffering: true,
baseUrl: 'http://www.foo.com/pages/',
url: escape('play.php?vid=' + myParam1),
scaling: 'scale'
}
}
);

This solution works for me. If the Flowplayer team agrees this is the correct approach I suggest it be added to the documentation because (unless I missed it) it doesn't appear to be documented how to pass querystring params in this circumstance.

Cheers,
-JB

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