Forum user: MEDIAmobz

We have been suffering from this same issue. The erratic buffering of rtmp and mp4 causes stuttering video.

I have scanned around for a more current pertinent post, but this seemed like the most relevant one.

I am trying to optimize rtmp mp4 delivery over Cloudfront CDN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You might want to add the mp4 extension I mentioned above in your example/docs. It could save people some time when attempting to use cloudfront with flowplayer.

Maybe save someone some headache:

To serve MP3 audio files or H.264/MPEG-4 video files, you might need to prefix the file name with mp3: or mp4:. Some clients can be configured to add the prefix automatically. The client might require you to specify the file name without the file extension (e.g., magicvideo instead of magicvideo.mp4).

So add "mp4:" in front of your path to stream h246 encoded files.

The play button is also incorrect in the control bar when this happens. The control bar shows a "pause" button, even though no clip is currently playing. I would expect to see a play button here like normal at the beginning of a clip when autoplay is set to false.

I actually found this to work on the demo page here:

http://flowplayer.org/demos/configuration/playlist-splash.html

However, if I put an mp4 as the second video it behaves as described above.

I don't mind sharing...is there an appropriate place here for sharing plugins?

You have an extra brace in your code toward the end:

} </script>
</body></html>
Remove that and things work correctly.

I have written a plugin that uses google AS3 analytics libraries to tie flowplayer directly into google analtyics without any javascript.

It uses the following syntax in the embed:

"analytics": { "url":http://yourhost/flowplayer.analytics-3.1.3.swf","google_id":"YourGoogleID", "debug: true" }

The debug parameter is optional and defaults to off. If debug is set to true, the output from the analytics calls will be displayed over your video but not actually sent to google.

your google web property ID must be set to a valid id.

The plugin will report events for, PLAY, PAUSE(time), STOP(time), SEEK(time), RESUME(time), and FINISH. The (time) means an additional piece of data, the location of the event in seconds, will be sent with the event notice to google. The clip URL is also sent as the label of the event.

I don't have the plugin hosted yet, but would be happy to have it integrated into the flowplayer project if there is interest. The licensing on the google analytics library is Apache 2.0, which is compatible to be used IN GPL3 projects according to apache:http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

Let me know your thoughts and interest on this.

Well, I implemented a different strategy. I changed addCustomMenuItem in ContextMenuBuilder.as:

CONFIG::commercialVersion
private function addCustomMenuItem(menu:ContextMenu, label:String, itemIndex:int, callback:String, separatorBeforeNextItem:Boolean):void {
  if (! callback || callback == "null") {
    addItem(menu, new ContextMenuItem(label, separatorBeforeNextItem, false));
  } else if (callback.substring(0, 7) == "http://" || callback.substring(0, 8) == "https://") {
    log.debug("creating item with url");
    addItem(menu, new ContextMenuItem(label, separatorBeforeNextItem, true), function(event:ContextMenuEvent):void {
      navigateToURL(new URLRequest(callback), "_self");
    });
  } else {
    log.debug("creating item with callback");
    addItem(menu, new ContextMenuItem(label, separatorBeforeNextItem, true), createCallback(itemIndex));
  }
}

It's not the prettiest, but if your "callback" routine starts with http:// or https:// then it will just create a url link to that address. Feel free to use this code, I created it and it is now GPL licensed as well. :-)

Example object embed code:

"contextMenu":[{"Get Custom Video":"http://mediamobz.com/postjob"},{"About MEDIAmobz...":"http://mediamobz.com/"}]

Right now context menu links don't work if embedding with the <object> tags.

Instead of just allowing a callback function for context menu items, add support for a "linkURL":http://mediamobz.com" or similar property that could be used in the embed object config parameters.

Example:

<object ...... config={ ..... "contextMenu":[{"Get Custom Video":{ "linkURL":"http://mediamobz.com/getvideo"} } }].... ></object>

Hopefully that example isn't too confusing with the missing parts.