Forum user: SATRAmark

I'm hoping someone can help. I'd like to allow the user to load a different video in the player by clicking a link elsewhere in the page (a standard HTML anchor, for preference).

Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Thank you. I had obviously misunderstood the way the elements nested.

Hi

Our company has purchased the commercial version of flowplayer, but the key we have does not seem to work to remove the branding or give us access to the context menu.

We are using the # prefixed key for sub-domain support and the page is being served from a subdomain of our main site, which is the domain that we registered with flowplayer.

The key has been checked and re-checked. The playback we see is the same as the invalid or missing key example on the commercial version documentation page. Also the additional context menu item is not being shown, yet your documentation states that:

"You can work without a license key to integrate and test the commercial version in a development environment where the domain is not the same as in your final production environment. The only difference is that the player shows a logo without a valid key (or when the domain is different from the one assigned to the key)".

This seems to suggest that even if the key isn't working the context menu should.

The code we are using is as follows:

flowplayer("player",{src: 'flowplayer/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf',
key: '#$b0dbaf68757453ba66a',
contextMenu: [{'About SATRA...' : function() {location.href = 'about.php';}}],
width:316,
height:200},{
clip:{url:'video/20.flv',
onStart: function() {this.unmute();}
},plugins:{controls:{url:'flowplayer.controls-3.0.3.swf',
time:false,
backgroundColor:'#000000'
}}});

Can anyone help me figure out why this is still showing the flowplayer branding and why we are not able to add anything to the context menu?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi.

After you were good enough to fix the bug I reported last week I have finished testing flowplayer for all the different ways our site uses video currently. I'm almost ready to put through the purchase request for the commercial version of flowplayer, but I have a couple of questions first:

Is the bug referenced above in the commercial version? If so, when do you anticipate releasing a fixed version?

How can I develop the finishing touches to our setup (branding, menu items etc.) on our development server which has a different domain to the live production server?

Again, thanks for your help, and for producing a fine video player.

Mark

That does indeed fix the problem. Thank you very much for your quick and efficient response.

Edit: Note for anyone reading this - I have now removed the example linked in the original post.

I believe I have found a bug in the current free version of flowplayer (flowplayer-3.0.3.swf) that is serious and so trivial to reproduce that I can trigger it in your own minimal example from the download archive.

Whenever there is a query string in the url of the page, flowplayer fails to find the video file.

This is true regardless of whether the query parameter has anything to do with the video or not, even if the page itself is ignoring the parameters completely.

I have uploaded your example code, modified to show a file from the same directory, as a demonstration.

This one works

and this one fails

As you can see from the source I have not messed with your code in any way, other than to change the clip to a local file instead of a blip.tv feed.

I am using the free version to evaluate flowplayer with a view to buying a commercial licence, but if this issue cannot be resolved it is useless to us, as 99% of the site we wish to use it on is dynamic content selected by query strings.

If you have any advice on a fix I'd appreciate it.

Thank you very much, that's just what I need.

I'd also like to point out a problem with the forum - this request has been posted 3 times (!) but the first two actually returned a huge error page from tomcat to me that said the post had failed (internal server error). The post that didn't get me this error was this one, and the difference was I didn't try to use the flowplayer tags around the code.

Apologies for this, hopefully someone can delete the redundant posts...

Mark

Hi.

I am struggling to achieve what to me seems a fairly basic function for a video player: continuous looped playback of a single flash video.

The configuration I am using is very basic, but I cannot find any guidance either in the online documantation or by searching the forums on how to achieve this goal.

The playback configuration I am using is below, all I am missing is a way to loop the video continuously.

Can anyone help?

$f("player", "flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.3.swf",
{
clip:
{
url: 'loop.flv',
autoPlay: true,
mute:true
},
plugins:
{
controls:
{
url: 'flowplayer.controls-3.0.3.swf',
time: false,
backgroundColor: '#00476E'
}
}
});

Hi.

I am evaluating flowplayer with a view to puchasing the commercial version and have been very impressed so far, but I am struggling to make it play back a single flash video in a continuous loop.

The configuration I am using is pretty simple, but I cannot find anything in the online documentation that helps, nor has searching the forums yielded any useful results.

Any help with this issue would be appreciated.