Forum user: sixfoot

Is there a way I can detect how far behind the client is from my live stream? I have a Flash server. The Bandwidth Detection add-on says it does this in the Quality of Service monitoring, but how do I access the amount buffered or amount of latency?

Thanks in advance.

I did this and it removed the Play button in all cases from the middle. Is there a way to only have the opacity be 0 after the video has started? I'd like for my users to see it to start the video (it doesn't autostart), but have it go away when they pause.

Actually, I just downloaded 3.1.3 and noticed the same error a few others were getting with the loading graphic being in the top left and the controls not showing up. Even after several refreshes, it was not fixed. This seemed to happen on the load of a second video on my site (different pages) during the same browser instance.

Seems to work! 5 for 5 on both browsers for me. Thanks!

Yes, appears better. I am on a slower connection today, but it does appear to be working.

Yes but slightly different this time. Now a refresh does not always fix it, and sometimes it works the first time I load it in the browsing instance. Same as far as no controls, but slightly worse because it is less predictable.

Doh! And now that pagehttp://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/streaming/first-frame.html is broken again.

That seems to have fixed for me!

Thanks for the workaround. Are you putting that in the clip or completely outside all the player set up and callign it initially with just a single line playerload() call?

The best way to reproduce is to have a really fast connection (maybe local to machine if necessary) and a really fast computer.

Ok, I've started that thread:

http://flowplayer.org/forum/8/24973

Most of the details can be found in this discussion
http://flowplayer.org/forum/8/21736

But for a summary of the problem with a better subject, since Flowplayer 3.1.1, there seems to be a JavaScript/Flash timing problem that is mainly seen on IE browsers (especially 8) and fast computers with fast connections. The problem is that the Flowplayer loads without controls (and won't play if autoplay is on) and the page containing the player MUST be refreshed/reloaded for the player to work.

I have two examples:
1)http://flowplayer.org/demos/plugins/streaming/first-frame.html
2)http://coins.ha.com/c/video.zx?src=item&path=/4/8/5/3/4853837&SaleNo=1127&LotNo=1700

To reproduce this behavior, follow these steps:
1) Copy one of the above URLs
2) Close all IE instances
3) Open IE8 and make sure the home page(s) do not have any flowplayer calls
4) Paste the url in your browser. If the video is not playable, you have reproduced the bug. If it is, go through these steps again. It should be unplayable the second time.

If you cannot reproduce the bug, see the above-mentioned thread. it probably means your computer and/or connection is not fast enough.

It is believed that the Flash code must be adjusted to fix this (see the other thread).

So until someone fixes the Flash code, all we can do is not use JavaScript? This bug didn't seem to show up until 3.1.1 of Flowplayer.

Yea, not sure where that 999 is coming from because it is not specified in my config. I only specified the 2 second value. But I can't really turn this off in production, but can try in development and let you guys know. But I am doubtful as well.

That did not work for me