Forum user: gmccomb

You'll have better luck posting this on a forum that deals with Silverlight. Flowplayers works only in Adobe Flash. As it says for the description for the Marketplace forum, "Buy or offer custom Flowplayer development for the community"

Flowplayer is not a US-based company. That's easy to see by going to their company page from the Home page.

They provide their VAT number. This is EU countries collect their tax.

I'm not posting as much these days because of all the forum spam, but I just have to comment on this on...

You mean easy configuration like this?

http://flowplayer.org/setup/index.html

(set up, then choose Get Embed Code)

or how about the part where you can take your configuration and compile you own custom player from it?

Anyway, if you find the written documentation too difficult, a video isn't going to dumb it down. This is a complex piece of software, when you consider the program files themselves, the need to convert and upload videos, create Web pages, and possibly even reconfigure the Web server in case it's not properly set up for streaming videos.

There are plenty of services that simplify much the task of converting videos, posting them on pages, and setting the look and feel of a player. That's their business model. Not everyone has, or should have, the same business model. That's how the world works.

http://flowplayer.org/demos/commercial/multiple-domains.html

Are you saying if you follow the syntax shown on the above page it doesn't work for any of the domains?

You might want to see this thread for an alternative:

http://flowplayer.org/forum/2/32159

You could try spamming some forums that have nothing to do with your request.

Why are you asking that here? Ask Apple why they don't support Flash.

They work fine for me, on several different browsers.

Occasionally the Flowplayer team will make a change to their server that will cause temporary glitches. People write about that here, but I see no large-scale issues currently.

A "blank" player is a common symptom for a lot of ailments. In your case the fact that it works locally but not on a server generally points to a couple common causes, MIME type and GZipping among them.

You can't count on this working the same for everyone. Whether or not you can put content over the Flash window depends on hardware acceleration. In general, you need to set to transparent, not opaque, and play with the z-index values.

If you're looking to put content over the Flowplayer window you should use the content plugin. This cooperates with the Flash engine to resolve the hardware acceleration modes. When hardware acceleration is enabled, Flash writes directly to video memory. Behavior is different between browsers, and between Windows and Macintosh.

Your server may be mangling files. It can do this in two ways:

* No MIME set, so it defaults to sending SWFs (binary files) as ASCII.

* Gzipping more than text. Turn off GZIP for SWFs and any other already-compressed content (video, images). It should only be used with CSS, HTML, and other text-only files files.

Also, at the risk of infuriating you, be sure you upload SWFs and videos binary mode. It's easy to forget and transfer them in ASCII, which is the default for most FTP programs.

Use playlist instead of clip:

"playlist":["/videos/mysplash.jpg",{"url":"/videos/myvideo.flv","autoPlay":false}]

Care to explain HOW you're putting HTML over the player?

There's a right way and wrong way to do it. The right way is the content plugin. If that's not working in IE, it might be a scripting error in the configuration. IE is more sensitive to mistakes in JavaScript.

My bad. I too-quickly assumed the code was server-side.

You might want to look into whatever debug console is available for your browser. Check for errors, and look at the page as it is rendered, not the source.

But maybe before that go back and hand-code a VERY basic page using HTML only (no dynamic writing) and get that to work.

The code looks okay. Be sure that the Flowplayer control SWF is in the same directory as the main player SWF. Also be sure there is a space between the lines that are wrapping here. The hard returns may not be interpreted as white space, so you get

"flashvars"value

instead of

"flashvars" value

Excellent catch that it's already supported using onTextData. All of the examples from Adobe I've seen involve external XML files.

I think there still might be a value in using an external file - selecting a language, for example - but it's nice to know that Flash at least supports the concept.

I doubt Flowplayer will deal with Timed Text embedded into the container until Adobe Flash supports this. In this variation TT is a stream, so the video decoders built into Flash itself is required to handle it.

Perhaps this is something they added in Flash 10.1. You could check the Adobe site to see. If that's the case, post an enhancement request in the Feature Requests forum here.

The alternative so far is to provide the captions in an XML file. That should work, unless there's a bug in the parsing routines.