FlashVideo 5.x-2.7and flowplayer player loads but valid flv does not play

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Any solutions already? Want to investigate flowplayer for HD (h264) video playing...

Same problem, but for me none of the flash players I've tried are working... I just get a loading... 100% message, but no video plays. Even though the thumbnail and flv files are fine. Tried inserting the video with print flashvideo_get_video($node) in my node-video.tpl.php, but same thing...

Any help is much appreciated!

Can you check your HTML source and see what path the FLV is displayed? Verify this is the proper path.

davidlerin,

Are you using Dash Media Player?... If so, then you need to copy the skins folder with the player. It shows "loading... 100%" if it cannot find a player skin to load.

Thanks,

Travis.

I believe he mentioned he's using "flowplayer"

I have successfully used FlowPlayer with FlashVideo but with version 6.x-1.4-beta. This is sort of a hack but here's how i've done it:

1) added to 'flashvideo.module' the following:

...
function flashvideo_play($video) {
   // mgcm: Added flashembed.js for FlowPlayer
   drupal_add_js('sites/default/files/flashembed.js');

   // Get the filetype of the video to be shown.
   $filetype = $video['override'] ? 'flv' : _flashvideo_get_filetype($video['file']);
...

2) changed 'flashvideo-flash.tpl.php' to the following code:

<script> 
flashembed("video-player",
	{
		src: "/sites/default/files/flowplayer/FlowPlayerLight.swf",
		width: "<?= $video['width']; ?>",
		height: "<?= $video['height']; ?>",
		wmode: 'transparent',
	},
	{
	config: { 
    	videoFile: '<?= $video['file']; ?>',
	initialScale: 'scale',
	autoPlay: <?= $video['autostart']; ?>,
}});
</script>

In your video node, just add the usual [video] tag for the uploaded file and everything should work nicely.

Great patch. I don't think this will make it into the core module, though since it requires a change to the core get video routine.

Here's an update for mgcm's flowplayer hack. I've used it with flowplayer 3.0.1 in Drupal 6. It's pretty much the same but flowplayer has changed how it's embedded a bit.

1) added to 'flashvideo.module' the following:

   // mgcm: Added flashembed.js for FlowPlayer
  drupal_add_js('sites/default/files/flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.0.1.min.js');

   // Get the filetype of the video to be shown.
   $filetype = $video['override'] ? 'flv' : _flashvideo_get_filetype($video['file']);

2) changed 'flashvideo-flash.tpl.php' to the following code:

<a
 href="<?= $video['file']; ?>" 
 style="display:block;width:400px;height:300px"
 id="player">
</a>

<script>
        flowplayer("player", "/sites/default/files/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.1.swf");
</script>

Just for completeness:

I just set up FlashVideo in Drupal 5 to work with flowplayer 3.0.1 in a way similar to those described above. Just add code like the following to your template.php file in your theme directory:

function YOURTHEMENAME_flashvideo_play_flash($video) {
  drupal_add_js('files/flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.0.1.min.js');
  $output = '<a href="'.$video['file'].'" style="display:block;width:400px;height:300px" id="player"></a>';

  $output .= '<script>';
  $output .= 'flowplayer("player", "/files/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.0.1.swf");';
  $output .= '</script>';

  return $output;
}

Now when you write [video] in your node templates it'll open up flowplayer.

Hi!

Did anyone of you got FlashPlayer running with several Videos on one node? With the method mentioned above it works, but only for the first video. For the pater ones the FOO_flashvideo_play_flash function seems to be ignored. When I delete the first video of the page (so that I only see the video not avaialble picture) the second video works. So anyone knows how to get that working with several videos on a page?

I'm using Drupal 5 and FlashVideo 5.x-2.8-rc3.

Best regards,
Alexander