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Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string Created Jan 23, 2009

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SATRAmark

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Jan 22, 2009

Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string

Posted: Jan 23, 2009

I believe I have found a bug in the current free version of flowplayer (flowplayer-3.0.3.swf) that is serious and so trivial to reproduce that I can trigger it in your own minimal example from the download archive.

Whenever there is a query string in the url of the page, flowplayer fails to find the video file.

This is true regardless of whether the query parameter has anything to do with the video or not, even if the page itself is ignoring the parameters completely.

I have uploaded your example code, modified to show a file from the same directory, as a demonstration.

This one works

and this one fails

As you can see from the source I have not messed with your code in any way, other than to change the clip to a local file instead of a blip.tv feed.

I am using the free version to evaluate flowplayer with a view to buying a commercial licence, but if this issue cannot be resolved it is useless to us, as 99% of the site we wish to use it on is dynamic content selected by query strings.

If you have any advice on a fix I'd appreciate it.

Anssi
Flowplayer Flash & video streaming developer

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Jul 24, 2007

» Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string

Posted: Jan 23, 2009

Reply to: Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string, from SATRAmark
Yes this is a bug. Please test with this development version where this is fixed:
http://flowplayer.org/releases/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.4-dev.zip

regards,
Anssi

SATRAmark

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Jan 22, 2009

» » Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string

Posted: Jan 23, 2009

Reply to: » Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string, from Anssi
That does indeed fix the problem. Thank you very much for your quick and efficient response.

Edit: Note for anyone reading this - I have now removed the example linked in the original post.

markg

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May 13, 2010

Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string

Posted: May 13, 2010

Reply to: » » Player fails to find the video file if URL has query string, from SATRAmark
Working with versions 3.1.5 and 3.2.1, this problem rears its ugly head when the URL string has multiple parameters in it. All my testing points to the ampersand--which separates the parameters--as the culprit. Even when the parameters have no relevance, the video is not found. If I remove the ampersand(s), it works just fine regardless of how long the URL string is.