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Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up Created Apr 6, 2010

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sippykup

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Apr 6, 2010

Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up

Posted: Apr 6, 2010

  • Flowplayer 3.1.5
  • Firefox 3.5.8 64-bit (also tested with 3.6.3 32-bit)
  • Flash 10.0 r45
  • 64-bit Ubuntu Karmic 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 12 04:38:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux


flowplayer("video", {src: "flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", wmode: "transparent"});

does not work. The page element is just empty. No error messages.


flowplayer("video", {src: "flowplayer-3.1.5.swf"});

works but does not set wmode to transparent, so HTML will not appear correctly on top of the Flash element.


flowplayer("video", {src: "flowplayer-3.1.5.swf", cachebusting: true, wmode: "transparent"});

works, and is what I am currently using as my workaround.

Thomas Dubois
thomas_at_bigsool.com

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Feb 1, 2010

» Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up

Posted: Apr 7, 2010

Reply to: Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up, from sippykup
Hi,

Thanks for reporting !
However, I wasn't able to reproduce with the latest 3.2.0-dev ?
Could you please try with 3.2.0-dev (that can be found here :https://flowplayer-releases.s3.amazonaws.com/info/dist.html ) ?

If the problem persists, could you please paste a complete sample code ?

Thanks a lot,
Thomas

sippykup

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» » Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up

Posted: Apr 9, 2010

Reply to: » Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up, from blaaaaaaah
3.2.0-dev does seem to fix it! Thanks for the help. I'd also be interested to know how stable dev is. I can live with using the cachebusting param until 3.2.0 is released if it's still got a lot of issues.

thinkinginvain

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Apr 8, 2010

Plus 1

Posted: Apr 8, 2010

Reply to: Using wmode: "transparent" causes Flowplayer not to show up, from sippykup
I am having the same problem. On Ubuntu, running firefox and on Vista running firefox

Only seems to happen when there are more than 4 videos present on a page

Cachebusting doesn't seem to help

gzip is completely disabled on my test server

everything works fine in IE8,IE7, Firefox on XP, Opera on XP, Vista and linux, Chrome on Vista and LInux.

Only able to reproduce this on FF on linux and vista.

Also, noticed that in opera and firefox, even on OS's when its working I have noticed that the videos don't load unless that part of the page is in focus.

For example: If I have another window open in front of Firefox, the videos do not load, when i bring focus to firefox the videos that should be visible within the window then and only then load, the videos 'below the fold' do not load until I scroll the page.

This is a deal breaker for what would otherwise be game changing software.

Anyone have any suggestions or ideas?

I am trying the dev version but am a bit nervous about using a prerelease on a production site.

How stable is dev?

Thanks!

Anssi
Flowplayer Flash & video streaming developer

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Jul 24, 2007

» Plus 1

Posted: Apr 8, 2010

Reply to: Plus 1, from thinkinginvain
You should really use the approach of embedding to "splash images":http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/multiple-players.html

This makes the page much lighter to load.