Forum user: beaart

I have same problem. It's look that when buffer became empty, player is paused. When one part of buffer had loaded - clip unpaused. But unpause must be after whole buffer full.

Anyone can confirm my suggestion?
Who found solution for this?

Okay thanks for your reply.

So there is no way I can accomplish this with current Flowplayer ?

Hi

I changed the code of embedDemo3.html to this:

<object width="305" height="235" data="flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf?0.19011158749350454" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="movie" value="flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf?0.19011158749350454" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
<param name="flashvars" value='config={"onStart": "function(){this.seek(10);}","clip":{"url":"http://flowplayer.org/video/Extremists.flv","provider":"lighttpd", "autoBuffering":"true","autoPlay":true},"plugins":{"lighttpd":{"url":"flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.3.swf"},"controls":{"url":"flowplayer.controls-3.1.5.swf","height":20,"fullscreen":true,"scrubber":true}}}' />
</object>

But this doesn't seem to work. Do you see what I'm doing wrong ?

Yes, but I want the embedded video to start at 180 seconds.
I want the visitors to scroll back to the beginning if they want to.
Do you understand my problem? Or do I misunderstand you ?

I think I caused a lot of confusion with my post of Apr 27, 2009, where I describe my problem incorrectly. My issue is, that I can't scroll back in the embedded video to before the time the video is started.

Hi Edge,
I upgraded the flowplayer-commercial, flowplayer-pseudostreaming and flowplayer-controls to up-to-date versions, but it still doesn't work.
Please see http://www.notubiz.nl/dyon/flowplayer/embedDemo3.html .

Oh that was a bit dumb. My Bad.
Now I changed it to include autoBuffering, but nothing seems to change (I also changed the start:float to start:int)
But still, it doesn't work the way I want. I also added autobuffering to the demo3 page. There, it also doesn't work.

I created 3 tests.
The first 2 with my video, the 3rd with a video from flowplayer.org site.

Onhttp://www.notubiz.nl/dyon/flowplayer/embedDemo2.html is a demo of embedded flashplayer with a starttime of zero. As you can see, the movie lasts for about 56 minutes.

Onhttp://www.notubiz.nl/dyon/flowplayer/embedDemo1.html is that same video, but now with a starttime of 25 minutes. As you can see, in embedDemo1 the movie starts at the right time, but I can't scroll back to the beginning of the meeting.

To test it correctly, I also createdhttp://www.notubiz.nl/dyon/flowplayer/embedDemo3.html , which uses a 4 minute movie of flowplayer.org, and I started it after 3 minutes. As you can see, I also can't scroll back to that time. Is there a solution or workaround for this ?

btw: sorry, in the reply this morning, I didn't describe the problem correctly

Unfortunately set autoBuffering not helped.
I think such problem appear because i'm using pseudostreaming and because clip is stream - flowplayer think that in clip no start time and he starting playing from time which specified in option "start".
Anybody know my suggesting is true?
And if yes, how i can change this behavior of pseudostreaming?

Can somebody please check my post. I would really like to get this working.
Else, flowplayer won't be needed in my project :(

So my point is, I have a video of (let's say) 2 minutes. I want to embed it on a page, to start at 1:15. When I do this, the embedded player will only play 45 seconds, but it won't start at 1:15, but at 0:00. So I will only see the first 45 seconds, instead of the last.

I need create embed text of flowplayer which will begin playing from xx second.
I'm using flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.2.swf and flowplayer.embed-3.0.2.js for this.
This part of my player cofig (all other i think not necessary):

$f("flow_player",  
        {    
        src: "flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.0.swf",  
        width: 290, 
        height: pl_height 
        }, 
        {    
        key: '#@cd64e966926fd397305', 
         
        clip:{ 
            url: src_url, 
            provider: 'lighttpd', 
 
            start:0, 
             
            autoPlay: true 
        }, 
        plugins:{ 
            lighttpd:{ 
                url: 'flowplayer/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.2.swf' 
            }, 
            controls:{ 
            url: 'flowplayer/flowplayer.controls-3.1.0.swf', 
            height: 20, 
                    } 
                 } 
................... 
             }); 

With parameter start i got almost that need. This embeded text created player which start playing on xx second.
But video before xx second unavailable (control bar timeline on begin). I try use instead propety "start" - seek(xx) when clip begin playing (event onStart). But events not embeding.

My question:
How I can embed player that will be load whole video and start playing from xx second (and control bar will be on position that responsing xx second (will be not on begin of timeline))?

I had same problem, couln't seek in audio without video track. This is my ffmpeg command, hope it helps somebody :

(I transcode in bad quality, since my input is low quality wmv/wma's)
(I altered the script a bit, since I do other stuff with it as well)

SAVEIFS=$IFS
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
ffmpeg="/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg"
yamdi="/usr/bin/yamdi"
imageFile="/home/myUser/someimage.jpg"

# function will create a $1.flv file, and then uses that file to generate a indexed flv file
function transcodeFile {
    echo "Start transcoding of $1"

    basename=${1%.*} # get base of filename
    ext=${1##*.} # get extension of file

    if [ -f $basename.flv ]
    then
        echo "$basename.flv already exists"
    else
        if [ -f $1.flv ]
        then
            echo "$1.flv (workfile) already exists"
        else
            if [ "$ext" == "wma" ]
            then
                durationT=`ffmpeg -i "$1" 2>&1 | grep "Duration" | awk '{ print $2}'`
                duration=${durationT:0:11}
                $ffmpeg  -loop_input -r 1 -t $duration -i $imageFile -i "$1" -r 1 -y -b 2500k -acodec libfaac -f flv -qscale 6 "$1.flv"
            else
                $ffmpeg -y -i "$1" -acodec libfaac -f flv -r 25 -qscale 6 "$1.flv"
            fi
        fi
        # add index
        $yamdi -i $1.flv -o $basename.flv
        rm $1.flv
    fi
}

transcodeFile <someFileName>

IFS=$SAVEIFS

I had the same problem. I added a commercial support request, and did some research of my own.

I found, that if you have ANY

<a href="javascript:someJavascriptCallWhichHasNothingToDoWithFlowPlayer()">clickme</a> 

links, the flowplayer hangs in MSIE(only when you click on them of course).

What you have to do is remove all href=javascript: links, and replace them with something like :

.pointer {
cursor: pointer;cursor: hand;
}

<a class="pointer" onclick="someJavascriptCallWhichHasNothingToDoWithFlowPlayer()">clickme</a> 

This fixed it for me.

The commercial support solution was :
<quote Tero>
try this little "hackish" solution after the inclusion of flowplayer.js script:

window.onbeforeunload = null; 

will this help? If it does - I'll explain a little more.
</quote>

I tested this, and it also works. So if you implement the last solution, you don't have to change all your href=javascript: links...

Good luck! I hope more people can use this sollution