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seaneffel - March 8, 2008 - 18:37
| Project: | Embedded Media Field |
| Version: | 5.x-1.0 |
| Component: | Embedded Video Field |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | closed |
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Description
Emfield plus Firefox doesn't always display the flash video as intended. I have an example for you to try out, test it out in Firefox and non Firefox browsers. I can't yet determine if it is a browser issue, an emfield issue, or a theme issue. Working on:
#1
I can't seem to replicate the problem, though what exactly is it supposed to be doing that it isn't?
I tested FF, IE7, and Safari, all on my WinXP laptop and I can't see any real differences.
#2
Yeah, sorry about that. I could have given a better description.
What I was seeing in Firefox was a blank area in the node that should have contained the embedded video. When I clicked in this blank area, I would hear audio from the video playback, but no image.
I'm using Mac versions of Firefox and Safari.
Funny thing is, it fixed itself and I can't reproduce it atm. Could have been a problem with the video file itself and not one of the modules or themes. I'll keep looking and if it comes up again I'll repost. What should I look for if this error comes up again?
#3
It sounds like either a problem with the video, the browser, or the flash player. At any rate, I'll leave this open for now, let me know if you run into any more problems.
#4
I'm having this exact same problem.
Can hear the audio, but see no video. I tried both blip and YouTube embeds.
This is true for Camino and Firefox on a Mac running 10.5. It works fine in Safari 3.
Shai
#5
I should add one more thing. This is against the latest dev version.
On an older site I see I have the 6/26/07 dev version of emfield and that works fine on Firefox and Camino.
Shai
#6
Alex U-A helped me out via IM. This is a problem with Firefox MAC having trouble with css opacity settings. Notably, in my case at least, the admin_menu module uses the precise opacity css that Firefox on the mac hates. Since end users on my site don't see admin menus there won't be a problem on those sites.
For seaneffel, he likely had the experience that I had that it suddenly solved itself when logging out or switching roles, something that would turn admin_menu off.
Here is the reference:
http://www.civicactions.com/blog/firefox_mac_and_transparency_woes_pulli...
#7
I've been having this same problem. I tried emfield 1.0, 1.2 and the current dev. Lo an behold, it started happening when I installed administration menu. I've removed it and now the videos display again. Yay!
Not sure whether to post as an issue for administration menu module.
-sam
#8
Yeah, it would be good to let the admin menu people know about this issue.
#9
I'm going to close this, as it's an admin_menu problem (one that's been around for a while, but the issue doesn't belong here)
#10
#11
Even though this is an admin_menu issue as Alex mentions, it's likely that folks may continue to land on this issue here and I thought I'd give a bit more precise info about how to fix this in admin menu.
On line 26 of the latest version of admin_menu.css (which is 2.5 -- though this file hasn't changed much over upgrades, so you should have trouble finding it) you'll find:
#admin-menu li li { width: 160px; background: #202020; filter:Alpha(opacity=88); opacity: 0.88; }Change that to:
#admin-menu li li { width: 160px; background: #202020; filter:Alpha(opacity=100); opacity: 1.00; }I actually think the admin menus look better at full opacity in addition to fixing the video problem.
As a best-practice it is advisable to make the above change in a css override file or in your theme's style.css file, depending on your theme's strategy for overrides -- as opposed to making the change in admin_menu.css. That way it is possible/likely your override will continue to work after each upgrade of admin_menu with no further fussing. If you make the fix at admin_menu.css you'll overwrite your correction when you update the module.
Shai