Forum user: jaltuve

make sure that:

rangeRequests: true

is present in the pseudo plugin options.

I have tested the policy file server, and flash does request the file but the video is never served. If I remove rangeRequests it works.

to the guy with '17' years in the comp biz:

I don't know what you mean by 'common sense' and this 'obsession' you talk about. Like you, I have 16 years in the comp biz, and 15 ONLINE, sold my Internet business back before the bubble burst, and now I own my consulting company.. I've also known the Flow team for a while now, so I think my comments can be objective, fair and unbiased.

And, I believe the actual 'product' the flowplayer team has here is pure genious... not just the player, but all the other things their are doing, including joining the jQuery revolution and offering their own jQuery Tools.

So, to achieve what they have so far with 'no marketing' or managament skills simply tells me that their product is perceived as so 'good' they don't need the marketing BS! I please urge YOU to be the one to keep the common sense when making comments!! you make yourself look as if you were get paid to come into this forum to discredit the flow team..

Hi FlowPlayer team...

The OP is correct. The Viral plugin will only work when the config passed is a JSON object, but NOT when passing a URL for a external config, can you ACK the bug?

Test case here:

http://www.venetubo.com/foros/_P411992

Hi, first congrats to the developer for the idea...

Now, before I start playing with this, it is evident there is a syntax or logic error in the latest compile as can be evidenced here:

http://www.venetubo.com/foros/cgi-bin/gforum.cgi?post=411992

I guess the 'unexpected h' refers to an include header with an incorrect name? I'm not familiar with AS3, but I will try to build the sources myself to see if I can help with the debugging.

Again, brilliant idea to whoever came up with it.

be sure to hard refresh the page to see the latest version or simple bust the cache via query string arguments.

3232design,

Thanks again. tried the new update, however I get a ga.js not found. Check this test page:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/newtracker.html

3232design,

Thanks again! I've decided to install the tracker in my production environment, so far it seems to be working fine, however (and probably this is a Google Analytics error) but every single 'event' generated from the plugin seems to be counting as a 'visit' to my site. Any idea why this happens? Google Analytics now show a huge number of visits (almost double) but I'm not sure why this happens.

Thanks, and merry xmas

Here's how to check that it's definitely a bug in the Open Ads Plugin:

Check:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/test.html

it should work...

now try this one:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/tracker.html

it will fail.

The ONLY difference being:

In the 'test' example, I use the 'shows' property (which is like the equivalent of playlists) for video streams in the Video Ads Plugin.

In the 'tracker' example, I use FlowPlayer's playlist property.

so, its pretty obvious there is an error in the way the 'Video Ad Streamer' handles playlists. I already reported the bug, and provided test cases for the developer including some detailed information.

Edit: In some cases, if the second example works, it is because NO pre-roll was scheduled to be run. (OpenX is kinda funny, because it seems to have a mind of its own when delivering remant)

Ok, I re-activated the pre-roll. and set up this page:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/test.html

It works! with pre-roll.. I think its definitely a BUG with the Ad Streamer plugin and the way it handles playlists.

The above example doesn't use playlists, but the 'shows' property in the Video Ads plugin. So, your plugin is perfectly fine. is conflicting, but because of something the Video Ads plugin is doing wrong.

It works, as long as no pre-roll ad is scheduled to be delivered (I disabled pre-rolls for now)

so, this is defiitely some kind of conflict.
both gatracker and the video ads plugin are accesing/reading/listening to an event or preventing one from firing.. not sure, the thing is that it appears to be some kind of 'exclusive' access where one kicks the other out. I wonder if plugin loading order has anything to do with this.

I created two test cases:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/tracker.html

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/example/notracker.html

basic, minimalistic player pages w/ad serving. One uses gatracker, the other doesn't.

I don't think its a conflict with the google flash libraries, the Video Ads plugin doesn't use them and the errors you saw in the other page were simply GoogleAd manager errors (ad serving)

I'll do some more testing to see if I can isolate the problem using some alternative methods.

I will leave the above test pages intact so we can test further if you want me to install another compiled debug only copy of your plugin to see what might be happening.

I think I know what the error might be. check out this test page:

http://www.venetubo.com/foros/BETA-testing-Venetubo-Video-Ads-P346318.html

Two exact embeds. the first one has gatracker DISABLED, second one has it enabled.

It seems there is a 'conflict' between the Video Ads plugin (Open Ads Streamer) and yours, because when NO pre-roll ads are shown your Plugin does seem to work. it could also be a bug in the Video Ads plugin.. I already reported it, but it seems is not being actively developed anymore or they ignore bug reports.

Evidently, I tested your plugin in a plain configuraion with no other plugins enabled and it worked.

The above examples, now use the updated version you sent. Now, I don't see the initialization error, but the progress bar doing circles

Hi!

I'll test in a while.. my config file is quite complex :) I use Ad Delivery and almost every thing is customized (button, controls, etc) and I use the commercial version of FlowPlayer.

you can check the config file, it's dynamically generated the first time, and mod_cached after that for 1 hour (for performance)

http://www.venetubo.com/emb_v3_dev/3453/0/1/0/config_player_rev99.js

if you pass gatracker to the above config it will automatically enable the commented gatracker line. So, if you change the config to:

http://www.venetubo.com/emb_v3_dev/3453/0/1/0/config_player_rev99.js?gatracker=1 and pass it to the player like this:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf?config=http://www.venetubo.com/emb_v3_dev/3453/0/1/0/config_player_rev99.js?gatracker=1 it will NOT work.. however, if you make gatracker 0 it will work..

see:

http://www.venetubo.com/images/flash/v3/flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.1.5.swf?config=http://www.venetubo.com/emb_v3_dev/3453/0/1/0/config_player_rev99.js?gatracker=0

:(

I'm getting a player initialization type error #1009 which means:

Cannot access a property or method of a null object.

I didn't test any further, but I only replaced the old tracker with this one. the old tracker will simply display the progress indicator going in circles. this new 3.1.5 version is not letting the player initialize.