flowplayer doesn"t care about pseudostreaming Created Mar 17, 2009

Do you have the necessary metadata in your video files? Please see "Don't forget the FLV metadata" in this page.

I have used FLVtool2 with the command flvtool2 -U myVideo.flv and it didnt report a problem. The probnlem is that i can't click on the progres bare if the file is not loaded to that point, flowplayer simply won't let me.

Is there aniwhere i need to activeta ore fonfigure speudostreaming other than:

pseudo: {
url: '/flowplayer.pseudostreaming.swf',
queryString: escape('?start=${start}&config=1_180')
}

I may suggest that you could have an issue with metadata in your video.

Instead, try using the streaming movie featered in the demo files, here: http://flowplayer.org/demos/streaming/index.html

The movie itself: http://examples-s3.simplecdn.net/videos/Extremists.flv

I have put this video on my server (for testing purposes) and I can click in the bar, the time pointer skips to the point where I clicked, but after a few seconds it jumps back to the beginning of the video.

I guess in my case it is something with the setup of Apache and mod_flv

Here is my code, with this you can at least click in the time bar:

<a href="../Extremists.flv" style="display:block;width:425;height:300px" id="player"></a> 

	  <script>
	    $f("player", "../flowplayer-3.0.7.swf", {
		  plugins: {
		    pseudo: { url: '../flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.1.swf' }
		  },

		  clip: { 
			autoPlay: false,
			provider: 'pseudo',
			url: '../Extremists.flv'
		  },

		  canvas: { 
			backgroundImage: '../robot.png' }
	    });
	  </script>

When I replace this video with a video which has NO METADATA, then I CAN NOT click in the time bar!

This way you should be able to find out if your video's metadata are fine or not.

Hope this helps!
Greetings!

As i described above, you would need a flv file WITH metadata to be able to click in the timebar and skip in time (regardless if your server has mod_flv or not).

Also you would need the appropriate code. The one I have posted is positively working.

Now to the issue with time skipping to the start of the video - on my server mod_flv was installed, I was using the the correct script and the correct video file, yet it would not work.

In order to test if it was up to mod_flv or not, i uploaded the same files to another server where there was no mod_flv installed and I was seeing the same behavior - I was able to click in the timeline, but the player would always skip to the starting point.

After seeing this, I wrote again to my support and asked them if they have followed the install instructions kindly provided by thinkscape perspective http://tperspective.blogspot.com/search/label/mod_flvx The support answered that this instruction actually helped them to install this in the first place and YES they followed the instructions.

Now I was confused and I really felt SAD! I did everything right, the support seems to have done everything right, yet it was not working :(

Short time later, my firefox crashed, I opted to restart my comp (OSX) and my first thought was that I would have to give it up. But for some reason, I could not. I positively knew there was nothing more to try out. I tried out all possible codes, was tearing the support to the max. I definitely knew there was nothing I could try anymore. Nonetheless, I started FF and went to my testing files. Opened the streaming file, clicked in the timebar and - IT WORKED!

What a joy it was at 4.00 am!

Now the next step is to purchase the commercial version and play even more with FLOW!

hah... i'm glad you got it working.

well tell us what you did.. I have same issue..