Forum user: anil

The following flash parameter:

<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />

in the embed code generated by the javascript embed plugin causes an error in IE7. Setting this value to something other than "always" (such as "never" or "sameDomain") seems to fix the IE7 errors. Is there any harm to changing "always" to "sameDomain"?

I hacked something together that meets my use case. We are not longer looking for someone to develop this plugin.

Thanks.

Not sure if this is at all good Action Script, but I hacked something together that works for my use case:http://bitbucket.org/anil/flowplayerpingback/

This plugin will post a video_id and a secret (that can be hard coded) back to the server whenever clip #1 is played. The server can then record this information.

Any feedback appreciated.

Great suggestion. I added the embed code to a vanilla wordpress site here:

http://syndicatr.anilmakhijani.org/

The first video showed up fine, but for the second video I got the following result:

http://skitch.com/anilmakhijani/bc1ea/winxp-topp

So there still seem to be issues with FF2 on Windows XP.

Even this page says that 3.0.2 is the latest in the version history:

http://flowplayer.org/documentation/version-history.html#plugins_javascript_embed

Re: IE6-IE8 testing. I have tested on on virtual machines. I am running VMWare Fusion with Windows XP on a Mac Pro.

This page claims that the latest version of the embed plugin is 3.0.2: http://flowplayer.org/plugins/javascript/embed.html

Any idea where to the 3.1 version?

I forgot to mention: after testing without firebug enabled, I enabled to make sure that there were no Javascript bugs. There were none.

I just updatedhttp://www.streetfilms.org to Flowplayer 3.1 and I have having some trouble loading videos in FF2 on Windows XP. (No FF plugins installed)

The vidoes seem to load fine on IE6, IE7, IE8, FF3, Opera and Safari. But things seem to load inconsistantly on FF2.

This is the video that I am trying to load: http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/people-friendly-design-in-london/

This is what I see:http://skitch.com/anilmakhijani/bcmha/winxp-topp

Doing a hard reload seems to occassionally fix this.

There has been talk in this forum http://flowplayer.org/forum/6/12271#post-12911) about creating a plugin that allows embedded films to "call back" to a URL. I want to use this plugin to track statistics of movie files that have been embedded.

The plugin is a very simple one. Any time anyone clicks play on the embedded flowplayer, it should post back to a given URL.

I understand that it is possible to use flowplayer.js to track statistics of embedded flowplayers, but I really want to avoid requiring sites that embed our films to have to include a javascript file with their embed code. This seems unnecessarily heavy handed.

We would obviously pay for the development of this plugin.

Yes that is exactly right. Javascript cannot be used because it is an embedded player.

+1 on this feature. This feature is really the only thing that is holding us back at http://www.streetfilms.org from switching to Flowplayer. We have a demo with flowplayer up at http://design.streetfilms.org/ and everything is working well.

The player we currently use allows us to pass a "callback" flashvar that hits a php file on our server whenever anyone plays an FLV file. This file does the stat tracking for our embedded films.

I am using the flowplayer's jquery API like this: http://demos.anilmakhijani.com/flow_demo/index.html.3

and I am trying to send a params object the Flowplayer() command. The documentation says this:

"params can be given as a string or asn an object. A plain string it represents a relative or absolute URL to the Flowplayer flash component. If it is given as an object there it is a collection of standard Flash parameters such as background color before flowplayer is fully loaded. In general you don't need to tweak these and a path to flowplayer flash component is enough."

Is there an example of passing an object in? I haven't found an example in the documentation.

Thanks.

Thank you for the quick reply. However the documentation claims that it supports p and img tags. I am using the following markup:

<p><img src="http://www.streetfilms.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/alewife-bike-cage-poster.thumbnail.jpg" /></p><p>Test caption</p>

This markup looks very different using the flash content plugin http://demos.anilmakhijani.com/flow_demo/index.html.10 ) than on a plain HTML page http://demos.anilmakhijani.com/flow_demo/plainhtml.html )

Any ideas on how to fix this?

I am using the Content to display "Related Content" when a video is finished playing. Here is the demo:

http://demos.anilmakhijani.com/flow_demo/index.html.7

Unfortunately, the HTML seems to render a bit strange. I want to display the thumbnails and then the titles below them. Making the images block level elements ("display: block") should keep the titles from floating to the left, but that doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions on how to fix this how the rendering?