Forum user: killebrewj

This was apparently resolved in 3.2.2

Exactly the same problems here, only they are fixable by creating "pages" of content, basically putting X number of items inside a larger item so only one shows at a time. This is how the documentation says to do it, but we lose the ability to have lets say 10 items visible and only move forward by 1 of those items at a time. If you were to try this, it would cause odd problems as Hainesy said with circular.

Besides this, OnBeforeSeek is firing as soon as the script loads making my fade effects go crazy.

I also discovered OnBeforeSeek is now firing at least a couple times as soon as the scrollable loads, and onBeforeSeek does not fire on an item that was just moved/duplicated to make circular work.

no idea on why the button isnt showing up. its certainly an issue with how the page renders. maybe try viewing it in safari on your PC since it renders pretty closely? I cant really say without more info.

The circular thing is easy, just set circular: true as one of the scrollable attibutes.

I'm having a hard time understanding how no size option is better. Maybe if it were optional, fine, but to remove it requires many of us to create even more complicated scripts to try and lump items into "pages" (sub items?) in order to maintain existing 1.1.2 functionality.

Also, whatever code is "detecting" the containing div size vs the item size is apparently flawed, perhaps in the way it calculates size with padding and margins. As a result, when using the circular option, some items do not become duplicated until AFTER then should have been visible causing some to flash on the screen after the animation is done. I suppose again this can be fixed with the complicated paging method but then im writing out more than twice as much code as i needed to get 1.1.2 working so i dont think its worth the upgrade.

Paging becomes even more complicated when the number of items variues due to content from a CMS being used to generate them.

works for me at the moment on iphone OS4 beta 4. It looks like the right nav button isnt visible because of a rendering/css issue but if i tap in the black area where it should be, it does scroll and the left nav button appears and works correctly.

I also agree. I use 1.1.2 in a very simple 2 panel setup and my attempt to switch to 1.2.2 was a failure. The new simpler way that the circular feature works appears to be flawed in the way it detects the size of the scrollable. There is apparently no longer a way to specify how many items forward to move at a time or to manually specify how large the scrollable is.

I just read about the dummy div paging method. This may provide a sort of hack or work around to get the old functionality back and prevent odd circular problems but this would require a heck of a lot more code to pull off than 1.1.2 since im creating items with content from a cms so dummy or nested divs would have to be created in a loop.

I give up.

The only reason it doesnt play in firefox or other browsers is the browser disables the object when it is not in view, but IE doesnt do this. I kindof like the fact that ojects keep playing to prevent them from stopping if their container becomes hidden temporarily so you can switch back, such as a tabbed setup.

Anyway, you should call the api stop or pause command to stop the video when the overlay is closed, for example $f().pause() or $f(1).pause() if you have more than one player. Similarly you may be able to somehow unload the entire player with $f().unload() but ive never tried it. Some examples if found by SEARCHING on this forum contain a stop and then unload.

Here is how i do it using jquery

	<script type="text/javascript">
			//<![CDATA[ 
			window.onload = function() { 
 
             
   if ((navigator.userAgent.match(/iPhone/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPod/i)) || (navigator.userAgent.match(/iPad/i))) {
     $("#videoFlashPlayerContainer").html('<video src="http://domain.com/video/videofile.mp4" width="640" height="360" controls="controls" poster="http://domain.com/image/splash.jpg"></video>');
   }          
   else {
  $f("videoFlashPlayerContainer", 'flowplayer.swf', {
  clip: {

...

I'm using jquery to inject the video tag into the div that flowplayer normally fills and bypassing $f if the device is an iPad/iPod/iPhone since it wouldnt work anyway. Maybe there is a cleaner way to do this but this is work for me for now.

The poster attribute only works on iphone. On ipad I'm told you have to encode your poster image into the first frame of the video file or it will just show whatever happens to be the first frame, even just black if it fades in like my videos...

I did some debugging and the error is coming from the jQuery Tools FlashEmbed 3.2.0 which is inside flowplayer-3.2.0.js

// flashembed "static" API
	var f = extend(window.flashembed, {
		
		conf: GLOBAL_OPTS,
	
		getVersion: function()  {
			var ver;
			
			try {
				ver = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description.slice(16); 
			} catch(e) {
				
				try  {
					var fo = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7");
					ver = fo && fo.GetVariable("$version");	 
				} catch(err) {
						
				} 
			}
			}
			
	ver = RE.exec(ver);
	return ver ? [ver[1], ver[3]] : [0, 0];
		},

I just added return ver ? [ver[1], ver[3]] : [0, 0]; so that null values are not returned as this will cause the script to fail to determine that flash is not installed and then no download link is displayed. The exact line is 1366.

I actually got this from the flashembed script that is part of jquery tools. I guess your code is out of sync??

Thats exactly right, I replaced the the circle with my own logo in the resources.fla file and it works perfectly. In fact that file hasnt changed since 3.0 so I've been able to recompile each versio up to 3.2 without having to recreate the resources file again.

Just to clarify, earlier smcbay linked to an asp page with something like ?id=50&start=12345 but this does not work.

To test you must put the ?start=12345 after the flv file in a direct file download likehttp://myserver.com/video/myvideo.flv?start=123456

It does nothing if you put it on the web page address.

Although I agree that flowplayer support is often slower than I'd like, especially when I've reported REAL bugs and I feel my concerns are ignored, none of the issues here were things related directly to flowplayer. ASP and permissions issues are things I doubt they would support.

I'm not sure what you mean. You removed the flv file type mapping and then it started working? I emailed you.

my instructions are based on a stock IIS 6 configuration. I have no idea what else may have been changed that could conflict with this.

I just tried this
http://209.172.32.205/files/video/%7BF6036FE6-1CBE-49B7-A3AF-6B3E3108730F%7D.avi.flv?start=99999999999999999999

And got the full size file back, so its clarly a server problem. If this doesnt give you nothing back or at least a smaller file, you certainly have a server config issue.