Shuffle/Scrub through video like youtube player Created Jul 30, 2009

Update in pause mode.... Hmmmmm.... never really realized Flowplayer didn't have this. I second this as an enhancement. Fortunately it's not hard to implement in AS. (Allow seeks when in pause.)

Anyone? - this would be a really kick ass feature.

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Will be considered for the next version.

This is now planned for our 4.0 release, targeted for end of April release.

http://code.google.com/p/flowplayer-core/issues/detail?id=202

I sympathize with the Flowplayer devs and think they've done some great work overall, but it seems like people have been complaining about scrubbing not working right or not being very good in FlowPlayer since at least 2008. As of version 3.2.5 (commercial version) it's still very iffy, especially with short h.264 videos. I know some of my scrubbing probs are probably due to insufficient keyframes in short clips, but when I click and drag the scrubber, I really feel like it shouldn't grab the entire video frame and controlbar and drag it along with the scrubber, which is what it currently does. The scrubber position ends up locked to my mouse position when I release it and I have to click again to stop it from following my mouse, at which point the video may or may not restart or continue as if nothing happened.

I hereby tripple-dog-dare the FlowPlayer team to get scrubbing right in the next release. Sorry if that sounds like a rant. I've been particularly irritated by this problem today. I'm sure I'll get over it. :)

I had the same problem with the player+scrub bar moving when I clicked to move it. It turns out the problem was Firefox and it's drag-and-drop images feature. I was able to disable it with this bit of JavaScript in the document ready function:

// prevent image drag in Firefox which prevents the scrubber thumb from being used
$(document).bind('dragstart', function() { return false; } );

@JHogsett @minorgod - I think your questions are off-topic - this thread is a feature request to implement scrubbing. At present it's not that the scrub isn't working, it's that it is non existent.

You can seek the video by dragging the slider and releasing the mouse button - scrubbing means not having to release the mouse button.

The "real scrubbing" functionality is now implemented. You can test with this:

http://flowplayer-releases.s3.amazonaws.com/info/dist.html

You'll need the latest controls plugin and the latest player to test this.

Hi, the feature tested perfectly - thanks very much.

When will this be part of an official release? What is the status of the test release at the above URL - are those components ready to use in a production environment?

Thanks!

We are going to release the next version together with a new website (this site redesigned). We still have a few weeks before everything is ready.

The current development version athttp://flowplayer-releases.s3.amazonaws.com/info/dist.html should be quite stable: I would recommend that you test with the plugins that you use and with your configuration and if you don't see any problems you can go ahead and use it in production.