Player displays in Node but does not play movie

i have the same experience with it
it seems to be working fine in one install i have AND it displays the Test Content

the OTHER install i have seems to work okay - BUT I CANNOT see the test content

what gives

i have clean urls

Do you have anything on a live site that we can look at?

If you view the source code for the non-functional page do you see the proper embedding mark-up? Does it not work at all, or work with direct embedding but not swfobject embedding?

I have 6.x-3-x-dev installed.

When I change my method to swfobject 2 (javascript) embedding, it does not work.

However, it works with direct embedding.

When I do view source, I see the markup.

I don't know if this is some incompatibility with the embed method and the params seem to match the swfobject docs at code.google.

Can I try using swfobject 1.5 instead?

@mhopson

You can't use swfobject 1.5 as, from memory, the syntax is quite different.

Again, do you have anything on a public facing site I can visit?

Usual reasons for SWF Object failing are no size being set on the movie, or the script being in the wrong place. Do you see a placeholder as if the substitution is trying to happen? In your event logs do you see any page not found errors that might relate to either the script or the movie you are trying to display?

@flumpies

Do you have anything public facing for the non-working site? Which embedding method are you using? Does it work on neither direct embedding nor swfobject embedding?

I am in a similar situation as the original submitted of this issue. I'm using the same versions of the same modules and experiencing the exact same behavior: with direct embedding flowplayer3 works just fine, but with swfobject 2 enabled I receive the “You are missing some Flash content...” message without a video player showing. In my case, I'm attempting to embed FLV files that are being converted from the video uploaded module from the video project (version video-6.x-4.0-beta1).

I have additional information that I hope somebody can leverage towards a solution. Firebug running under Firefox indicates “unterminated string literal” Javascript errors on the node display pages. Looking at offending line, the call “swfobject.embedSWF” is being loaded up with parameters, and it looks like the closing quote on the video player height parameter is getting separated from the numerical value by a “newline character”. I manually edited this part of the page's source in Firebug, deleting the newline character and rejoining the closing quote to the parameter value, and immediately everything worked as I would have originally expected, which is to say that the “You are missing some Flash content...” disappeared and flowplayer3 correctly loaded and played.

While it seems that I've sniffed something out, in all honesty I don't exactly know what or how to fix it. I don't even know if this implies that there's a problem with the video module of the SWF tools module. I can provide additional details if needed.

@negentropy Can you provide additional detail on the change you made to the JavaScript? Perhaps even provide the updated line?