Forum user: hackeron

@JHogsett @minorgod - I think your questions are off-topic - this thread is a feature request to implement scrubbing. At present it's not that the scrub isn't working, it's that it is non existent.

You can seek the video by dragging the slider and releasing the mouse button - scrubbing means not having to release the mouse button.

Anyone? - this would be a really kick ass feature.

Dragging the video progress bar in youtube player shows you the nearest keyframe to the second you are hovering on. This allows you to quickly scan through the video's contents without playing it and without letting go of the mouse button

In Flowplayer however you need to let go of the mouse button before the frame is shown. It would be great if flowplayer could show the frame without having to let go of the house button.

No code errors, but finally figured out what was causing it - I was serving the files with django and it was setting various http response headers that I guess safari flash plugin didn't like. I switched to using the XSendFile apache module and the problem went away :)

Everything seems to be snappier too - apache is a lot more efficient in serving static content. Could be in my head though :)

Anyway, yay! - flowplayer is working brilliantly :)

Replaced jwplayer with flowplayer but doesn't seem to work correctly on Safari. For some reason the video won't play on safari until I refresh the page and press play again.

Any ideas?

Thanks for that, that is brilliant. I will replace jwplayer with flowplayer tomorrow :)

This little project is really coming along.

Thanks for the reply,

I already have the best image stored as a jpeg file, that's not the problem. The problem is how do I show it without playing the video?

I think the first method you suggested might work but can the video start buffering while the image is showing? -- the second method seems to just show the first frame of the video which is not what I want.

I'm currently (reluctantly) using jwplayer as it has this feature and all I have to do there is this:

var flashvars = {
file:"/cctv/view/video/7211/43941.mp4",
image:"/cctv/view/image/7211/43941.jpg",
}

It will show the jpeg image and can start buffering the video.

Is there anyway to do the same with flowplayer?

Here is a live demo of all this in action to give you an idea of the project:http://leom.homeip.net/cctv/events
Username: demo Password: demo

I want to show a specific image. For example I have a custom CCTV system where I have a video and I have an image of the specific frame with the most motion and a red box around the moving object.

How do I get flowplayer to show this image until I press play?