Posted by tiato on November 3, 2009 at 10:36pm
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| Project: | Embedded Media Field |
| Version: | 6.x-1.18 |
| Component: | Embedded Video Field |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | tiato |
| Status: | needs work |
Issue Summary
I used Embedded Media Field to stream external SWF videos which worked fine until the latest update. After updating to version 6.x-1.15 I get the error "Sorry, you need to install flash to see this content"
at first I thought it was an issue with SWFObject API but am now convinced it is an emfield issue as I was able to start streaming again by not using emfield. Instead I have to manually code it into my nodes with a custom Input Format which allows PHP Filtering:
This resolved my issue:
<?php
$url = "http://php.opensourcecms.com/free/videos/drupal/drupal_blocks.swf";
$params = array(
'width' => '776',
'height' => '442',
);
print theme("swfobject_api", $url, $params);
?>Though I have it working again we were using emfield to avoid inserting code, we're trying to keep the body of our nodes strictly for content. It worked great before and do not understand why it stopped with new version. Any help is appreciated!
Comments
#1
I would love Emfield to have this feature also. If I could check a box in the Emfield submodule called "Embedded SWF" and then select it in CCK that would be great. It seems like such a simple feature that this module should have.
#2
You can create a .swf filed for CCK and have it generate html embed code using the SWF Tools module. The only problem is that as of version 6.x-2.5 you cannot yet re-size the height and width.
http://drupal.org/node/550238
http://drupal.org/project/swftools
#3
I'll play around with CCK and try to compare the differences between the previous emfield builds and the latest - this needs fixing
#4
#5
Is anyone using latest (or 1.15+) version of emfields with external swf files with success?
emfields seems to believe to have an flv file and tries to display the swf via http://freevideocoding.com/flvplayer.swf which fails of cause.
Or is the issue you are seeing a different one?