Hello,

I'm very familiar with a lot of Drupal, so I thought getting the video module to work would be somewhat straightforward. I have the YouTube linking working. That's good. I installed the flowplayer module and the test video plays on the flowplayer settings page. That's good. I have the "Use FlowPlayer" check box checked in the Video settings page. I have a .flv video temporarily stored in the root of my site for testing the "URL Video" method of creating a video node (using http://www.mysite.com/myvideo.flv as the URL). But I get "Video type not supported" when I try to create the node. This part (below) from the Video module settings page really confuses me. It's right below the FlowPlayer check box which I have checked.

"Filename of Flash loader: FlowPlayer.swf

The name of the Shockwave file that manages loading the FLV movie. This is relative to the website root. This settings will override if flowplayer module is installed and enabled. Mainly we focus by this settings to add custom flv player support to the video module See includes/common.inc theme_video_play_flash() for further developments."

First off, the name that was pre-configured in this box was "FlowPlayer.swf". In my FlowPlayer module, the file is found in the following directory and it's lowercase:

/sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer/flowplayer.swf

What do you mean by "This is relative to the website root"? Do you mean the box should show the path not the just filename? If so, would my path be "/sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer/flowplayer.swf" (without quotes)? Well, I tried that and it did not work. Somewhere I read to put flowplayer.swf in the root directory, but that is not mentioned in the installation documentation. Do I need to copy any of the flowplayer files to root?

I'm not sure I understand this sentence: "This settings will override if flowplayer module is installed and enabled". Do you mean if flowplayer module is installed then the filename in the box will be ignored or that the filename in the box will override the flowplayer module?

I think I have all the Video modules enabled that should run .flv files:

Enabled Name Version Description
Google Video 6.x-2.8 Enable Google video support for Video module.
Depends on: Video (enabled)
Upload Video 6.x-2.8 Enable Uploaded video support for Video module.
Depends on: Video (enabled), Token (enabled)
Required by: Video ffmpeg Helper (enabled)
URL Video 6.x-2.8 Enable URL video support for Video module.
Depends on: Video (enabled)
Video 6.x-2.8 Allows video nodes.
Required by: Video ffmpeg Helper (enabled), Google Video (enabled), Video Image (disabled), Video Multidownload (disabled), Video Opt Metadata (disabled), Video Params (enabled), Upload Video (enabled), URL Video (enabled), Youtube Video (enabled)
Video ffmpeg Helper 6.x-2.8 Provide apis for ffmpeg. Simplify video nodes creation.
Depends on: Video (enabled), Upload Video (enabled), Token (enabled)
Video Image 6.x-2.8 Enable thumbnails support for video module.
Depends on: Image (disabled), Video (enabled)
Video Params 6.x-2.8 Enable addition of html params to object generated by video module. Useful if you need to use swf videos which needs params to be passed.
Depends on: Video (enabled)
Youtube Video 6.x-2.8 Enable Youtube videos support for Video module.
Depends on: Video (enabled)

I'm assuming I do not need to add any HTML Object Parameters when I try to create the node. Am I right that this is only for optional parameters and that all the required parameters are supplied by the Video module? If so, it would be nice if this was mentioned on the page. Not all of us are highly experienced with embedding video.

I hope you can help me get the Flash format to play using the URL Video method.

Comments

najibx’s picture

yeah ...

I only got it working when using upload, not URL. The error get "Video type not supported"

I have it sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer/flowPlayer.swf . So no problem here as
I can see the effect when I toggle "Use flowplayer module" checkbox.

Solutions?

hypertext200’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)