Captions doesn"t load using subrip and timed text Created Nov 16, 2009

I messed around with this for the better part of a day, until I finally download the plugin again. Originally I had just downloaded the swf file only, which for some reason seems like it may be corrupt on this site. It was only 385 bytes in size.

I finally downloaded the zip file, and noticed that the swf for the plugin here was like 8KB. Once I uploaded this to the server, everything magically worked.

Hi mike! thanks for the quick feedback. I'm using the one from the zip file but it doesn't work. Here's a sample of the code I use:

<script>
flowplayer("embedded", "flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", {
clip: {
url: 'Moroccan',
captionUrl: 'moroccan.srt',
provider: 'rtmp'
},
plugins: {
captions: {
url: '../swf/flowplayer.captions-3.1.4.swf',
captionTarget: 'content'
},

content: {
url:'../swf/flowplayer.content-3.1.0.swf',
bottom: 25,
height:40,
backgroundColor: 'transparent',
backgroundGradient: 'none',
border: 0,
textDecoration: 'outline',
style: {
body: {
fontSize: 14,
fontFamily: 'Arial',
textAlign: 'center',
color: '#ffffff'
}
}
},

rtmp: {
url: '../swf/flowplayer.rtmp-3.1.3.swf',
netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://[our server's IP]/vod'
}
}
});
</script>

I'm trying to make it work using the sample codes shared on the plugin information section, which has been deployed on a development version of Flash media server.

The FLV video(Moroccan.flv) is residing on the vod/media/ folder with the SRT file but it didn't work. I've tried another approach by using an MP4 but didn't work neither. Finally I uploaded both the FLV and SRT file on the webroot folder so I can use progressive download approach but still not successful. Did I miss anything on the settings? Or do I have to use a valid domain name for it and not just an IP?

Thank you,
Mike

The problem you describe sounds exactly like what I was experiencing until I changed out my caption swf. Your code looks correct to me, though I am relatively new to the flowplayer as well.

I have experienced problems with timed text files when using what should be properly formed XML per the W3C specs. It seems the timed text parser doesn't exactly comply to the spec. But even when I had these issues, this didn't prevent the player itself from loading.

The only thing that fixed the problem I had was changing out the captions swf. Sorry this didn't work for you.

got it working now :) I was so stupid not to run the swf files on a web server. Quite weird though that content and rtmp plugin runs even without storing them on a web root.