Load configuration from a URL Created Dec 9, 2008

Perhaps this would be the solution to Myspace as well. Presently Myspace can't handle the generated embed code either.

This will be implemented and scheduled now for our 3.1 release in February/March. The 3.1 feature list now looks like this:

• loading configuration from an external URL
• improvements to controlbar: disable/enable buttons and other widgets, show target time when scrubbing (when moving the seek handle), possibly tooltips
• ad plugins: OpenX, maybe one additional one
• improvements for the streaming plugins: CDN integrations, support for RTMP server clusters, bandwidth detection

In addition to these there will be new versions of our JS tools.

Did this make it into the new release? I checked the updated documentation and the changelog for 3.1 and didn't see a mention of it.

Yeah, this was why we upgraded to 3.1, and now I can't find it. This is really important to sites that want to let others embed their content - I don't want to make it easy for other people to alter our config settings when embedding. Also, so we can change config settings without having to ask every site that embedded our video to change the embed code.

Can anyone tell me if this feature has been implemented to the version 3.1.3. This is a very important feature for a sites that I'm using flowplayer in.

It's implemented since 3.1.1. Have a look at the last example of the alternate install methods documentation.

Basically you pass the path to the external configuration file as value to the flashvars parameter:

<param name="flashvars" value="config=/path/to/config.js" />

I guess maybe I misunderstood what the OP is requesting.
My end goal is to make the object to be like youtube:<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=http://www.youtube.com/v/d7eGypGOlOc&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param></object>

so using flowplayer might look like this:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=http://www.mydomain.com/flowplayer.swf?movieName=testmovieID"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param></object>

As you can see the youtube one seems to not have any kind of configuration file name or anything, only the id of the video. When I go tohttp://www.youtube.com/v/d7eGypGOlOc
It loads as an swf file. Are they make an individual swf file for each video, or are they creating the swf with certain configuration dynamically?

Is there a way to do this?

The YouTube link you gave is probably a munged/encrypted version for something like:

http://www.blacktrash.org/swf/flowplayer.swf?config=http%3A//www.blacktrash.org/js/ccc.mp4.js

A link to an swf file (flowplayer) with a query for a configuration. Result at least is the same: Flash player filling entire browser window.

Again, this uses Flowplayer's capability to load an external config file.

Thank a lot, this is very very helpful.

I am still not clear . If i use this method will the embed codes work on myspace or not ? Anyone tried it ? It will take me 2 days to figure it out,. If it dont work i dont wana even mess with it anymore

I think the docs address this:

http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/alternate/#external_config

So it looks like it's possible. There is no "JSON" syntax here, just good old Flashvars name/value pairs.

That said, the embed plugin isn't going to create the embed syntax for your users to copy and paste. There doesn't seem to be an option to have the embed plugin return a string using an external config file. You will need to do it manually, or ask the Flowplayer dev guys to consider adding it for the next version.

(There is a possibility that if you use an external config file in your Flowplayer setup it will be reflected in the embed string you get from the plugin. It should be easy to test.)

Yes and no. For remote embedding in most places, you cannot use JavaScript. One of my least favorite things about Flowplayer is the constant focus on using jQuery to load, embed, and control the player throughout the documentation. Do not want.

But with some work it is definitely possible to generate embed codes without JavaScript, and with the external configurations you can generate much smaller ones.

Here's the code I use on my site:

<embed src="http//[yourhost]/flowplayer.swf" flashvars="config=[url]" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http//www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" width="480" height="294" wmode="opaque"></embed>

I removed the : from the URLs in the embed code, because the auto-linking on this site completely breaks them.

The way this works is that it loads a copy of Flowplayer which uses an external configuration file that is unique for each video (it's dynamically generated from a database on our site). That configuration file has everything that the player needs to play the video, including the plugin configuration and the playlist info. The only configuration other than that in the embed code is the width and height of the player, which need to be in the object tag.

Since it's just a basic object tag at this point it should be able to be embedded anywhere that supports them. You will need to generate and provide the embed code to your users on your own though, as Flowplayer will not generate it for you.