By adamj on

I've been struggling with SWF Tools for a few hours. I am trying to get an mp3 player working. I got the module installed & configured, and setup my input format with the SWF Tool filter. With the tag, I can see the embedded player in my page. So far so good.

But when I try to play the file I get a "file not found error". I checked my Media Directory URL and it is correct "http://mydomain.com/web/files" (drupal is installed under /web, and my upload directory is "files"). When I look at the 404 error, it is trying to retrieve the file from http://mydomain.com/%2Fmydomain.com/web/files/test.mp3

This is when trying to embed the file with: <.swf file="test.mp3">
(note I put in the '.' so my post will display correctly)

I tried <.swf file="http://mydomain.com/web/files/test.mp3"> and print swf('test.mp3'); but both of these do the same thing. I also tried <.swf file="/files/test.mp3"> and <.swf file="/web/files/test.mp3"> but then the flash player won't even display and I see these errors:
Could not display the flash because "files//files/test.mp3" does not appear to exist.
Could not display the flash because "files//web/files/test.mp3" does not appear to exist.

I've also tried the default mp3 player and 1 pixel out. And I tried various browsers on OS X and Windows XP. It doesn't make a difference.

I just want to make this work any way possible. I've been through the configuration screens many times and don't see what I could change to fix this path problem. I tried adding some apache mod_rewrite rules to fix the path but I can't seem to get it to match the %2F (BTW I also tried disabling all my mod_rewrite rules just in case that was somehow causing this problem).

I am completely stuck. Can anyone help? Do I have something misconfigured or is it possible I have a buggy version of drupal or php or a module or something?

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adamj commented

Some more info. The generated embed tag looks like this:

<.embed width="30" height="31" swliveconnect="default" src="http://mydomain.com/web/sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/generic/generic_mp3.swf" wmode="opaque" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" scale="showall" quality="autohigh" loop="false" menu="false" play="true" name="" base="http://mydomain.com/web/files" salign="tl" FlashVars="autostart=false&file_url=http%3A/%252Fmydomain.com/web/files/test.mp3" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

Everything is correct except for the FlashVars attribute. That's supposed to be autostart="false&file_url=http://mydomain.com/web/files/test.mp3" but somehow it is getting partially URL encoded. It is very strange... why do most of the / characters come through ok? This is seeming more and more like a bug.

I am running Drupal 5.2 with PHP 5.1.4. I installed the latest available stable version of SWF Tools (5.x-1.1)

Any ideas?

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adamj commented

I just found this: http://drupal.org/node/162379

Unfortunately it is not possible for me to upgrade Drupal, so I guess I will have to try some of the workarounds suggested in this other thread.

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adamj commented

That link to the bug report in my last message is for the audio module. It basically the same problem but I don't think it applies here. I just wanted to find a quick way to get the SWF Tools module working, and here's what I did:

Edit the swftools.module file. Find the _swftool_get_flashvars_string() function.

Just above the line return $encoded;
I added this:
$encoded = str_replace('%3A/%252F', '://', $encoded);

Problem solved! Hopefully this will be corrected for real in an upcoming release of SWF Tools.

I feel silly replying to myself this whole thread, but maybe this info will help someone else. Good luck!