Hi,

I have recently installed the JWplayer on my multisite Drupal 6.24 installation to add some video functionality.
I have installed and upgraded the JW Player for Flash with v5.9 and everything is working fine except for one little thing. I would like to add a static background image inside the player that will show before the user plays the video. After reading up on this subject i understand that there are several ways of doing this, but since I am using the CCK integration the best way will be to set this up in the players additional flashvars. The syntax for setting up an background image should be fairly simple. But I cant get it to work.

image=http://support.visbook.no/node/videoimageroot.jpg

I have now tried several other syntaxes, but gotten nowhere?

The link for the site where I am trying to get this to work is:

http://support.visbook.no/node/338

Any help would be much appreciated!

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JW Player commented

@ElvinJones,

Can you provide a little more detail.

Which CCK integration sub module are you using? If you're using the text formatter you should be able to specify the image right in the shortcode you enter.

[jwplayer|file=http://example.com/path/to/video.mp4|image=http://example.com/path/to/image.jpg]

Thanks.

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ElvinJones commented

Thanks for your reply LongTail Video!

I am using CCK with filefield for the integration of the videos so im not really using the text
formatter for the videoes at all.

Thanks!

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JW Player commented

And you've set the Custom Player to the one you configured with the image on the File Field?

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ElvinJones commented

Hi,

jepp, im sure of that. I have deleted all other players so I only have the one with the image.

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JW Player commented

@ElvinJones,

I'm not seeing an image in the custom player config file being loaded. How are you trying to save the image? What field are you putting it in?

Thanks.