Forum user: parawing742

I'm trying to use a different mask color on the second time an element is exposed. The color is set using a js variable named background. Here is the current code (with a fixed variable setting):

var background = "#333333";
exposeApi = $("#contain1").expose({api: true, color: background, opacity:1}).load();

If I run this code a second time on the same page (after closing the first expose instance), the expose uses the same background as the first instance even though the variable has changed. How can I make it use the new background variable on the second usage?

I have created a tool which will expose any ID'ed element on a page. Now I want to know if it's possible to unexpose everything without selecting the previous ID and using api.close.

The old expose plugin would allow me to do this by using running $.unexpose (or something close to that...I don't exactly remember). Can I do this using jQueryTools?

"This library is open source and dual licensed under MIT and GPL 2+ licenses."

I'm trying to figure out how to change existing HTML content displayed using the overlay plugin. Is there a way to trigger a change from another Javascript function so I can replace the HTML content with the value of another variable?

Has nobody ever run into this same problem before?

It turns out that when removing everything else on the page so that it is just bare HTML, the cuepoint works correctly without having to click multiple times.

When additional content is loaded on the page, that is what causes the problem. There is no other javascript items or dynamic code running on the page...just lots of tables and graphics.

Any possible solutions or something else I should try?

On a client installation of flowplayer, there is a cuepoint set at 1000 to pause the video. When the play button is then first clicked, the video plays for a couple more frames and pauses AGAIN. After that, it will play normally.

Any ideas what might be causing this behavior? The function in the code is below:

        onCuepoint: [[1000], function() {
                $f().pause();
        }]

I would go about this by creating a two form buttons (for In/Out) which captures the current value of the getTime function.

$f().getTime()

That function returns the current playback time of the selected video. You could then transfer these values to a script which would begin the encoding process.

It's not too difficult to do if you're familiar with javascript and a web programming language. You might try posting a message on the marketplace forum if you want to hire a programmer to do it for you. Good luck.

Craig,

I've written a Flowplayer code generator as part of a much larger website, but I plan on separating it shortly and making it available for the community to use as well. It's great.

Make sure you access the video file through Simple CDN by HTTP once before attempting to stream it. You can do this by trying to download the video in your browser. In your case, it would be similar to this link:

http://flash-1987.simplecdn.net/play/ivfpodcasts/SeronoDinnerEggFreezing.mp4

Loading the video file by HTTP loads the video into Simple CDN's system so it will be available for streaming. You'll need to do this once for each clip you wish to stream.

I'm a member of the "ain't broke, don't fix it club" so my installed version of Flowplayer where I borrowed this code from is older than what is now available.

The same code should work fine with 3.0.5.

Hi Craig,

Here is some partial code to see how to use Simple CDN with Flowplayer. You might also look at the code of the Flowplayer homepage as they also use Simple CDN for streaming video.

    clip: {
        url: 'simplecdnbasketname/filename.flv',
        provider: 'simplecdn',
    },
    plugins: {
        simplecdn: {
	    url: 'http://www.domain.com/swf/flowplayer.rtmp-3.0.1.swf',
	    netConnectionUrl: 'rtmpt://flash-1111.simplecdn.net/play/'
        }
    }
}

M4V videos are supported by Flowplayer itself, but some older versions of Flash don't support it.

I use the rewrite engine built in Apache's webserver to rewrite secondary domains to the primary domain. Other server software should have similar functionality. You probably want to do this anyways for SEO purposes. Here is the .htaccess settings I use in Apache:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.elevenvisions.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.11visions.com/$1 [L,R=301]

As for the licensing, it's validated within the software so you don't have to worry about Flowplayer's servers handling it. That's mentioned somewhere on this website, but I don't recall exactly where right now.

Changing the event from onStart to onCuepoint (or onLoad) solved this problem. It would be nice to know the sequence of events that are triggered by functions such as "setClip." Is that documented anywhere?

My tracking script takes the GET vars and logs everything to a database. I think it's a much more accurate and easy to use system than going through the server logs.

I have a similar query made on each Flowplayer event so it's quite a bit more than just the stops that are logged.