Manually create the video

After looking over my code, I don't really seeing anything keeping you from uploading an FLV file and it just working... Is it not? I will need to look into this if it is broken...

As for getting it to play a filename you uploaded to that node, you can try this.

In your Body section, place the following code. Make sure you have PHP Code enabled on the Input Format, and then just replace the filename given in the SQL statement with whatever filename you want. Let me know if this works, because I have not tested it. You can do the same with any uploaded image, and just replace the [video] tag with [thumbnail] to get the same effect with images.

<?php 
/* This will only work from within the node Body.  You must upload an FLV file within that node, and then just replace yourvideo.flv with the file name you wish to show. */

if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && ! arg(2) ) {
    $nid = arg(1);
    $fid = db_result(db_query("SELECT f.fid FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {node} n ON f.nid=n.nid WHERE n.nid=%d AND f.filename='yourvideo.flv'", $nid));
    echo '[video : fids='. $fid .']';
}
?>

Actually even better... You don't need to burden the tag parser, but call the flashvideo_get_video function directly...

<?php
/* This will only work from within the node Body.  You must upload an FLV file within that node, and then just replace yourvideo.flv with the file name you wish to show. */

if ( arg(0) == 'node' && is_numeric(arg(1)) && ! arg(2) ) {
    $node->nid = arg(1);
    $params['fids'] = db_result(db_query("SELECT f.fid FROM {files} f LEFT JOIN {node} n ON f.nid=n.nid WHERE n.nid=%d AND f.filename='yourvideo.flv'", $node->nid));
    echo flashvideo_get_video($node, $params);
}
?>

I will look into this... My apologies, but I have been out of commission for the past couple of days, and will be back on fixing issues next week.

Indeed, I think my [function.dl]: Unable to load dynamic library problem is related to the code above that I tried (setting the text format to php).

Please have a look here: http://drupal.org/node/149521

Small recall: I run Drupal 5.1 localy. ffmpeg on my OS X Intel Mac Mini is the latest ffmpegX release (sometime in 2006). And it's not yet worked out to run properly...

About flashvideo running localy on Mac OS X, please jump for help over here: http://drupal.org/node/137203#comment-254666

Many thanx in advance.

The access to the [function.dl] is denied:
http://arsene.richard.free.fr/ged/fv/09_Drupal_access_refused-to-dynamic...

Each one of the 4 unappropriately automaticaly created nodes shows:
http://arsene.richard.free.fr/ged/fv/10_Drupal_node19_SQL-Syntax-error.png or
http://arsene.richard.free.fr/ged/fv/11_Drupal_node20_SQL-Syntax-error.png etc.

Combined with the previous post's first link, this should help... hopefully.

Please download the BETA version for 2.1 and let me know if this problem still persists. I made some changes to the uploading of FLV files, and it seems that it should work just fine. Also, you still need to run cron...even with FLV uploads. Thanks!