Forum user: dextr0us

Seriously great. Thanks so much!
rb

Also, just an FYI, I tried adding a splash image in a playlist, and yeah, that didn't help either. Seems to just be broken?

Hey kids,

Having a sucky issue when dealing with Viral Video plugin... specifically it's not respecting the embed's specific autoplay value. Pay no attention to the "throbber()" function, and I use a php templating system, hence the {% stuff. %}

Any ideas? Has anyone gotten the embed override for autoPlay to work properly?

$(function(){
if(useFlowplayer == true){
	player = $f("player", {src: "{% asset version?src=/swf/flowplayer-3.2.2-0.swf %}", wmode: 'opaque'}, {

		// clip properties common to all playlist entries
		clip: {	
		
			scaling: 'fit',
	  		
	  		onStart: function(){
	  			throbber();
	  		},
	  		
	  		onPause: function(){
	  			stopThrob();
	  		},
	  		
	  		onResume: function(){
	  			throbber();
	  		}
			  		     
		},
		playlist: [
					{url: "http://serve.castfire.com/video/126351/126351_2009-07-16-214155.1487.m4v"},
					{url: "http://serve.castfire.com/video/126351/126351_2009-07-16-214155.1487.m4v"}
		],
		plugins: {
			viral: {
						// load the viral videos plugin
						url: '{% asset version?src=/swf/flowplayer.viralvideos-3.2.1.swf %}',
						
						email: false,
						embed: {autoPlay: false}
					}
		}
		
		
	});
};
	
});

Is there any sort of method for when someone changes a page, or stops playing a video? I'm wondering so I could trigger some method for analytics as a user gets bored of my amazing content.

I think to get it fixed, we're going to have to pay. Boo.

Unfortunately, manual playlists aren't an option for me. This sucks. Boo.

I have the same issue with any type of apostrophe.

So it's actually JQuery's problem... but it still relates.

If I do a hide() in Jquery, it'll stop playback completely, and when I show it again, it'll be like it first loaded. Though, if clips are added dynamically, they're wonky too. Trying to figure out a way around this, will let you know.

AND on further inspection, it happens if I do jquery CSS attribute changes (ie display: none; and display: block;).

Best,
RB

There's a bug that if you hide() and show() the player, it'll ignore any previously dynamically added clips, and will only revert to the originally specified playlist configuration.

Yup, got it figured out.

I should have just tried it, makes enough sense.

http://staging.techvi.com/ if you want to take a look, I've just changed the playlist code. (add to playlist is the function you just fixed.)

Other cool stuff: Ajax loading pages so the video doesn't stop, and I just hacked in dynamically added clip cuepoints.

Best,
RB

I'm not exactly a JS coder (more of a script kiddie style hacker) would I just add that code to the playlist file and it'll work?

Best,
RB

I haven't yet figured it out, and frankly its a low priority, so not really looking.

Lemme know if you figure it out.

I'm cracking up really bad because I've created the worlds worst hack to deal with this issue.

Basically, I've decided that no video is ever going to be longer than 3600 seconds (an hour.)

I've created a 3600 element array in JS with each second counting from 0-3600.

For each post, I've created a custom JSON array that looks like this:

[1000,{time:1000, customfields:"look like this."}, 2000, .....]

In the common clip, I do an onCuepoint() with the 3600 number array as all the possible cuepoints. Then, if a cuepoint matches one of the numbers in my array (jQuery's inArray function) then I add one to the index to get access to the object data.

It's perverse, but it gets the job done till Flowplayer is fixed better. Surprisingly, it's only a minor page freeze for now.

Yet another hack from RB.

Was doing some testing, because originally I couldn't get onCuepoint() to properly load when dynamically inserted via JS. Turns out it wasn't just onCuepoint(), but instead basically every listener / event thing. (forgive me, I'm not exactly a JS whiz.)

I'm using the exact same JSON style nomenclature that I would if I was loading the clip into a hardcoded internal playlist.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to either fix this, or work around it?

Best,
RB

Did you figure out a fix for this ever?

So I'd like to be able to dynamically add content to an internal playlist, but it seems like its impossible to create a listener for dynamically added points.

I've been trying to do this for two days to no avail. It seems like there should be a method for this, but the addCuepoints() method seems to be an actionscript method, and has nothing to do with javascript.

If I do an onCuepoints listener on the common clip, it doesn't hear any individual clip cuepoints.

If you need more background, i'd love to provide it.

Best,
RB