Flowplayer FlashVars not working
| Project: | Lightbox2 |
| Version: | 5.x-2.9 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Hi Stella,
Firstly thank you for your fantastic module.
After much searching I could not find any solution to my problem. I have narrowed it down. I'm using Flowplayer to play FLV file. Flowplayer is working, It loads.
No Video is loaded though. If I use SWF Tools it does work.
Here is the output from Lighbox2 to call the file:
LIGHTBOX OUTPUT NOT WORKING -
http://debonocode.org//files/flowplayer/FlowPlayerDark.swf?file=http://r...
SWF TOOLS OUTPUT - WORKING -
http://debonocode.org/files/flowplayer/FlowPlayerDark.swf?&width=600&height=450&config={+%27videoFile%27:+%27http://rapidshare.com/files/193621469/Debono_DV.flv%27%2C+%27initialVolumePercentage%27:+%2780%27+}&videoFile=http://rapidshare.com/files/193621469/Debono_DV.flv
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It looks like flowplayer needs a Flash Var Array called 'config' in the structure
config={+%27videoFile%27:+%27http://rapidshare.com/files/193621469/Debono_DV.flv%27%2C+%27initialVolumePercentage%27:+%2780%27+}
Any help would be great,
Thank you,
Will Devine.
#1
An update, with some module hacking I sorted this out. I do not know how to write a pathch but this may be helpfull to others so here goes...
As stated above, Flowplayer seems to need a variable called 'config'
By changing the following line in lightbox_video.js (line 28)
Non working line = href = Lightbox.flvPlayer + '?file=' + href;
New line that works = href = Lightbox.flvPlayer + "?&config={videoFile:'" + href + "'}";
I have not fully tested this, with different settings but it seems to work now. This is a ugly hack so lets hope this fix gets put in as I try to avoid hacking code as much as I can.
(The idea for this hack came from: Post #10 by ncy in http://drupal.org/node/357318 - Lightbox does not load flv player after upgrade)
Once again,
Thanks Stella, and all those Drupallers that have helped me out so much over the last 6 months.
Regards
Will Devine
#2
Thanks for the tip, WillD_IRL, it gave me a good place to start. The above didn't work for me with version 6 so I had a dig here: http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/alternate/index.html
The following works for Lightbox2 6.x-1.x-dev 2009-Feb-09 and flowplayer-3.0.7.swf :
href = Lightbox.flvPlayer + "?&config={'clip':'" + href + "'}";#3
I had to use this
href = Lightbox.flvPlayer + "?&config={ 'playlist': [ { 'url':'" + href + "'}]}";