Forum user: dherbst

When you get error #2124 flowplayer is trying to load a file, but most likely the file is not found and getting an Http 404 error code. Most often this error is a result of a missing file on your webserver.

I have found it is easiest to debug these types of issues by using the adobe debug version of flash - because you will see the exception pop up on the screen. Or, use firebug to watch the "net" tab and see what requests are being made which fail.

You can get the debug version of adobe in the "Adobe Flash Player 10 ? Debugger Versions (aka debug players or content debuggers)" section on this page:http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html

This bug is back with 3.2.

If you compile the controlbar in the player, and set the autoHide to:

autoHide:{"enabled":true,"hideDelay":500,"mouseOutDelay":500,"hideStyle":"fade","hideDuration":400,"fullscreenOnly":true},

When I load the page, the video stage extends to the bottom of the player, but the controlbar is overlaying the video. If I go into fullscreen and come out, then the video is moved up properly so the controlbar does not overlay the video any more.

What revision fixed this in the development version above? I could never find it.

Try changing the "a" tag to a div. and then the player_container to 'div.player' instead of 'a.player'. Does that work?

I cannot reproduce this problem with firefox 3.5.7 or 3.6.2 or chrome 4.1.249.1045 (42898).

Can you provide a link to the page which is not working, your flash version, and flowplayer version? Without those details it is going to be extremely hard to help you.

This thread shows exactly that. http://flowplayer.org/forum/5/37298

You can do one these:

1. convert the newline into html <br> tags

2. pull in the changhttp://code.google.com/p/flowplayer-plugins/source/detail?r=840 for replacing
with br tags

3. wait until the captions plugin with the fix for r840 is released. It may be available as one of the dev builds, but I'm not sure if there are other dependencies you have to take care of.

Thomas,

You can do this in flowplayer today using at least these two methods, there may be more:

1. Create a swf to use as an overlay. This is probably the easiest if you have a flash developer.

2. You could use the content plugin with transparent images to use as anchor tags. You can change the html using cuepoint callbacks as the movie is playing. You could probably modify the captions plugin to use the srt format to specify both html and cuepoints.

Sena,

You could waste a lot of time and money doing that, or you could use the captions plugin, which flowplayer has already written and provides for free, and does exactly what you said you are going to re-write.

It's difficult to say how hard it is for your developer, but it appears to just be a two line function to change the subtitles:

js.player.change_subitile = function(menu){
	this.captions = menu.value;
	//TODO: make this work in a multiplayer
	$f().getPlugin("captions").loadCaptions(0,'/php/rmp_to_timedtext.php?file=../bases/'+this.captions);
}

Where the dropdown is populated like this:

<select onchange="js.player.change_subitile(this);" name="SOUS_TITRE">
	<option value=""></option>
	<option value="T_1203_511_8672.xml" selected="selected">Français</option>
	<option value="T_1203_512_8672.xml">Allemand</option>

	<option value="T_1203_513_8672.xml">Italien</option>
	<option value="T_1203_514_8672.xml">Espagnol</option>
</select>

The php file can probably be ignored, so you're just loading in a new srt file. Looks like all the work has been done for you/them already.

I'm curious as to what they think is difficult about this - please let us know.

You can resize the font by using the onFullscreen/onFullscreenExit callbacks:

flowplayer(...,{
  onFullscreen:function(){ this.getPlugin('content').css({height:200, body:{fontSize:40}})},
  onFullscreenExit:function(){ this.getPlugin('content').css({height:70,body:{fontSize:20}})},
...
)

If you have google analytics on your page you can enable event tracking and then use an onStart callback in flowplayer like this:

flowplayer(id,...,{ onStart:function(){ pageTracker._trackEvent("play", "video_title_or_url" );
}
);

Will there be a 3.1.6 release, or are you going to skip it and release 3.2.0?

Which revision is the fix for this in? I won't be able to wait for 3.2 so if I can grab the fix now I can apply it to my player now.

I haven't found a fix to this, but I've noticed if you go full screen and then out of full screen the player is correctly sized and the controlbar does not overlay the video area.

Anssi, any idea why this happens?

The cloudfront edge servers pull the file from the origin server - which is the S3 bucket associated with the cloudfront distribution. You put the name of the flv file in the S3 bucket as the url parameter to the rtmp plugin or clip, depending on which method you are using.

This is probably not the cause of your problem, but you have an extra comma at the end of the controls block - which is not valid javascript.

            tooltipTextColor: "#006498",