Forum user: wolfsden3

http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/javascript/playlist/scrollable.htm

FF 3.0.10 with Flash 10 only plays the 1st 3 seconds then stops, on all videos in the list.

IE 7 seems to play it correctly.

I tried to troubleshoot my code for a long time and couldn't figure it out before referencing your examples and yours did the same thing :-)

I'm by no means a programmer so I'm looking for help.

So after finally getting this thing off the ground my 4 videos play and they would probably look good BUT you can't see them :-)

You can do a source on this page to see the code but I had a hard enough time figuring out how to get them to even play. This section helped, move the jquery script up in your list and I tried moving it to the number 1 spot with no luck, same result but at least they play now!

URL: http://mymichiganrental.com/example/index2.html

So - Playlist list doesn't actually list anything except for:

${title} ${subTitle} ${time}

Then it shows my video graphic like it's supposed to waiting for me to click it. When I click the graphic it goes away and no video shows but you can hear them playing.

Seems like there's something wrong with displaying the HTML correctly but I can't figure it out yet. Still staring at it like an idiot :-)

Any thoughts?

Update: I did go into your default css file and grab the appropriate code for the <div> tag. Any newbs out there go to this url and copy out the div.whatever tags into a new style.css and upload to your directory.

http://static.flowplayer.org/css/global-0.17.css

That at least fixes the look but I still have the "${title} ${subTitle} ${time}" sitting there as if that jscript can't read my video list and fill in the blanks.

Update 2: You need to download that "flowplayer.playlist-3.0.5.js" or one of the other options in that list for the variable query to work "${title} ${subTitle} ${time}". Once's that's slapped into the web directory it works!

Now - to just get the video to show up on the page!!!

Ok - any other newbs this is what happened.

<script>
flowplayer("player", "../flowplayer-3.0.7.swf");
</script>

that "../file.swf"; is your ROOT web directory, exmaple.com so if you have it like I did in the "example.com/example" folder you'd need to change your script to:

<script>
flowplayer("player", "../example/flowplayer-3.0.7.swf");
</script>

And it'll work!

Now - on to playlists!

I am talking out loud here and I guess that's OK.

To a newb like me you'll at least see what and how I'm thinking.

I think this is my problem!

In the index.html file in the "example" folder there's a script line:

<script>
flowplayer("player", "../flowplayer-3.0.7.swf");
</script>

So - it would seem that "flowplayer" is the "folder" and then it calls or says the "player" is the flowplayer-3.0.7.swf and displays it on the page.

Is that accurate? I'm going to muck around with that "flowplayer" name and test I guess.

Thanks!

So, like anything I hammer away on things trying things, etc and so what I did was upload the "flowplayer" directory. Now, why the hell would that matter?

Suddenly the video WORKS like here: http://mymichiganrental.com/flowplayer/example

WTF? What's in the code MANDATING there be a lame flowplayer folder? Any thoughts on that?

I'm looking through the JS files now. Again - I'm a total newb that knows almost nothing about JS.

Thanks!

P.S. to a newb like myself the tutorials make little or no sense. For one thing they assume you know too much :-)

OK - so supposedly all you need is the contents of the "example" folder uploaded to your website and you should see it rocking and rolling. Unfortunately I don't see anything rocking or rolling. IE for example sits and tries to load the page. The little green progress bar on the bottom right hand corner of IE6 that is. Firefox just sits there as if it were done.

In myhttp://url.com/example folder I have the default folder the latest version comes with. There are 3 files...

flowplayer-3.0.6.min.js
index.html
style.css

In an effort to troubleshoot I've also uploaded...

flowplayer-3.0.7.swf
flowplayer.controls-3.0.4.swf

I also changed the index.html to point to a local flv file that is a known good although I did first also try it as total default.

This is totally default minimal installation. I am hosting with Dreamhost and they've been a banner host, I've got Joomla installed with a template and such but the "example" folder is stand alone and has nothing to do with Joomla.

Shouldn't this thing work out of the box, err ah, zip file? :-)

This makes NO SENSE!

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

If you care to see the results you can view it here: http://mymichiganrental.com/example

Thanks!