Forum user: khaled33

Hi guys,

i had bookmarked an example on the old site and it seems to have been removed to accommodate the new site. Shame because the new scrollable examples, while ver nice, don't really show me the effect i was after on the old example:
http://flowplayer.org/tutorials/scrollable-view.html

basically it showed thumbnails within "arrowed graphic" to one side that showed which item was selected and in the main part of the screen you saw the video player for the selected thumbnail.

Any chance this example could be ressurected?

Cheers

interesting, as i have seen this happen on IE too and have had it reported in by users. somehow i don't think this is an encoding issue because reloading the page that displays this problem clears the problem and the video is loading as it should be.

you will want to set the z-index for the div holding the flash to 1 and the z-index for the div holding the menu to 2. On regular flash objects adding the following to the <object> tag helps flash <object> tag:

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">

I don't believe this is possible with flash video player because I don't think the user object tags but instead use some form of javascript to render the player.

i get the following error:

301: Unable to load plugin: Unable to lod plugin using url "domain.com/flowplayer/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.1.0.swf": Error: 2036

is this a mistake i've made?

Hi Chris,

are you converting your videos to mp4 on the server or locally on your PC? What software are you using to convert the videos?

http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Encoding
The above page gives example of video conversion using fflpeg, mencoder an a few other tools. It is my understanding that using any one of those conversion methods inserts the required metadata into the output mp4 files that makes seeking possible.

Hi rrun,

I don't think it's a case of people not wanting work or income but this board probably sees primary users like youself; that is, people with their own web sites to run and maintain.

Having said that, I can't see any reason why flowplayer can't be integrated into any site, be it static or dynamic.

If you're looking for a developer, send me an email and I can put you in touch with one who I have used for well over 5 years. My email is khaled /at/ sharpedezine /dot/ com

so far i haven't had an issue with any videos but then again, none of my videos are that long. max time for most videos is about 20-30 mins and since the videos are user created and submitted, they aren't that huge. i will however at some point try and throw some massive videos at the system and see what happens ... maybe on my dev server rather than production (just in case).

All in all, I'm pleased with the h.264 streaming plugin and will obviously update whenever Arjen releases stuff with fixes in it. My requirements are quite basic; being able to stream files in a nice looking player :)

One thing I have noticed however is that is the source video is tiny in dimensions, say 240x130 or whatever, it plays to scale the entire player. This obviously makes the video look worse than it actually is. I was trying to figure out how youtube do their videos where the player itself is always the same size but the video in it is dynamic to the point that it sometimes take the full player, is sometimes in a letterbox format and is sometimes 320x240 or even smaller if the source video is smaller. Any tips on this would be awesome.

Regards to all ...

http://space.projectvoyeur.com/video_tests/h264_test5.html

looks like the bug is still present ...

Hi,

I have been in contact with the people athttp://www.code-shop.com with regards to being able to pseudo stream h.264/mp4 videos in flowplayer and using lighttpd.

In anycase, it took them (Arjen) no time at all to whip up this demo along with a plugin:
http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/FlowPlayer

If anyone uses the plugin, please leave your feedback in this thread and if the flowplayer developers are interested in this plugin to add to their plugin page, please contact the good people at code-shop for details.

I'd like to thank Arjen at code-shop specifically for his willingness to help the community with this plugin and the speed at which he put this together considering that I first contacted him yesterday evening.

I sincerely believe that FlowPlayer is truly a remarkable player and V3 has definitely taken it to the next level and now with the possibility to pseudo stream h.264 it has just got even better.

Thank youhttp://www.flowplayer.com ANDhttp://www.code-shop.com

Hi Joust,

I've looked at that thread and it seems promising but rather than wait I have contacted the guys at http://www.code-shop.com to make me the plugin. They are quite interested especially since I will be giving the plugin to the FP and code-shop community so they are heavily discounting the work and making the plugin for me for pennies.

Once it is done, I'll obviously post here with the code so that others wanting to use h.264 pseudo streaming can do so with flowplayer.

thanks BT, appreciate the link. I've put some feelers out on a few flash mailing lists about creating the h.264 plugin. if it pans out, i'll donate it to the FP community.

was hoping to be able to implement this in a project that is nearing completion in the next week or so but i guess that won't be possible. a little disappointed since i've actually spent considerable time trying to get just the right balance for the whole video conversion process and seem to have hit a brick wall in trying to implement it like i wanted because of the unavilability of a plugin ....

Hi Anssi,

As a non-programmer am I to understand that the code(s) implementations on that page are what you will be using in a plugin you will likely release in March? Is the code on that page tested and has it proved to be working?

Hello all,

am i right in understanding that there is not yet a streaming plugin that will handle h.264 on lighttpd? Is there any expected release date for such a plugin?