Releases for SWF Tools

The key new feature in this release is support for creating playlists out of multiple CCK uploads. You can assign the "SWF Tools - playlist" formatter to the field, and all the files are handed over to SWF Tools where they will be rendered as an audio or video playlist, or as slideshow, using your configured handlers.

There have been quite a few incremental bug fixes and minor new features, so this release makes them generally available to all users. One of the key fixes is to the input filter system - it was supposed to (but didn't) recognize square brackets. This now works correctly. Also, there were some issues when using SWF Tools with WYSIWYG editors such as FCKeditor. These are addressed too.

Lastly, an interesting new feature has been added to Wijering 4 as a result of a user request - it is now possible to make the player accessible by enabling the appropriate options on the module settings page. This will add a set of links underneath the player that will control it. Because they are just standard hyperlinks they are accessible to screen readers. It requires that SWF Tools use the SWF Object 2 embedding method.

In summary, issues addressed are:

• #404076: Filefield CCK field formatter : Support for multiple uploads added via the new SWF Tools - playlist formatter.

This contains a new feature - multiple CCK filefields to a playlist, via the 'SWF Tools - playlist' formatter. After downloading this package run update.php to register the new theme function that is needed to support this feature.

There is also a bug fix to the playlist generation code that the CCK formatter brought to light.

Fix a major bug in release 5.x-2.3 as described in #396222: Version 5.x-2.3 is broken. It looks like the tag was corrupted in CVS as both CVS and the release package are damaged.

This should fix things as this is a new release created from the (health) DRUPAL-5 branch.

DO NOT USE THIS RELEASE
This version is corrupted, as described in #396222: Version 5.x-2.3 is broken.

Fix to prevent SWF Tools' playlist cache clearing mechanism from deleting all files at the top the file structure. This only occurs if you set the playlist directory to 'empty', so it uses the sites/default/files directory, which contains other uploaded files.

The current fix simply prevents the deletion from occurring, pending a better solution.

This bug was reported in #384876: Blank playlist directory: all files erased.

This is a major new release of SWF Tools and introduces two new features - support for FlowPlayer 3, and support for RTMP streaming of single media files via Wijering 4 and FlowPlayer 3 players.

The FlowPlayer 3 support is for playback of files only. The module supports pretty much all of the configurable parameters, and the settings page uses the Farbtastic color picker to help customise the player. However, the module DOES NOT support the FlowPlayer 3 JavaScript API at this time.

Support for RTMP is, at present, enabled for Wijering 4 and FlowPlayer 3, and to use it you should use the swf filter syntax. To stream a file simply write <swf file="movie.flv" stream="rtmp://server/application">, and that's it. My resources mean I have only tested streaming against the open source Red5 streaming server. However, the code should work fine with Adobe's Flash Media Server too, but please post your experiences to the issue queue.

There are also a lot of bug fixes and tweaks in the code (so I hope I didn't accidentally break anything!). Most of these are to try and simplify some of the code by tidying up the way some of the hooks are called. Some of the player hooks have been renamed for consistency, and I've started to comment the code much more liberally to try and explain how SWF Tools works (also to try and help find more areas for improvement).

• #308172: Extra "/" in URLs
• #305383: 1 Pixel Out colours not passed from configuration page
• Auto-detection of sizes changed so that players are always auto detected even when a remote media url is configured.

Note - if you use flash node and also have remote media paths configured then you should also upgrade to flash node 5.x-5.5

Fixes #304963: Call to undefined function drupal_flush_all_caches() in version 5.x-2.0 which was code accidentally carried over from SWF Tools 6! Sorry about that!

This is the first official release of SWF Tools for Drupal 6. It brings a number of new features, such as standards compliant code, support for private file systems, SWF Object 2 and FlowPlayer. It also fixes a number of bugs that were identified in the issue queue for SWF Tools 5.

The is the first stable release of SWF Tools. This version contains the API and a lot of plug-in modules.

Currently supported:

Flash Players

• Basic MP3 player (in package)
• Basic FLV player (in package)
• Jeroen Wijering Media Player
• Jeroen Wijering Image rotator
• Airtight Interactive SimpleViewer
• 1 Pixel Out MP3 Player

Embedding methods

• Standard direct embedding
• SWFObject
• UFO
• jquery.flash.js
• SWFfix (when it exists)

Other tools

• Good filter support
• Helper functions, like converting Image Gallery into a playlist.