There is currently no warning message, if an old Media Player is installed. The user see only a white area and do not know, why they do not see a video.

A short message like: "you have to install the version xy of Adobe Media Player" should be displayed.

Please refer also to node http://drupal.org/node/337412

Thank you

Manfred

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Stuart Greenfield’s picture

Stuart Greenfield commented

This isn't something that is actually very easy for SWF Tools to do. The server has no way of knowing what version of Flash you are using - it simply serves the code.

Tools like SWFObject do have an ability to check on the client as part of the their JavaScript, and can enable an "Express Install" mode. However, at present I don't think I enabled that in SWF Tools support for SWF Object.

So the request is valid, but only in as much as I should go back at fix the Express Install support.

Stuart Greenfield’s picture

Stuart Greenfield commented
Version: 6.x-1.3 » 6.x-3.x-dev
Status: Active » Needs review

Finally I implemented the expressInstall feature for swfobject embedding! I am slightly embarrassed that this request is over a year old...

But, I got there in the end.

Tested locally (luckily I didn't have the latest version installed) and the express installer triggers.

The expressInstaller will not be triggered if the container isn't big enough to display it.

I haven't created an option to enable/disable the express installer, and probably don't plan to unless some really wants it...