I am attempting to upgrade from a working 6.x-2.5 to 6.x-3.0 beat4 and have followed the directions for moving the shared files to libraries.
I have this on the status page - " the required supporting file and upload it to sites/all/libraries/mediaplayer4/player-viral.swf. "
Question 1/ What is player-viral.swf ?
I had no such file previously . The player file is player.swf .

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fluxrider’s picture

fluxrider commented

I should also add that if I change the player name to player-viral.swf i get the player showing without controls and no animation in status but all green ticks. My jw player is licensed so i had previously changed its name from mediaplayer-licensed.swf. I did not choose the viral version because I do not want the embed info showing , so use the player without the viral stuff.

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Stuart Greenfield commented
Title: uprade from 6.x-2.5 to 6.x-3.0 beat4 » JW player not found when upgrading 6.x-2.5 to 6.x-3.0-beta4

JW comes in two variants - the viral player, and the non-viral.

When the JW module reports methods it checks first to see if the viral player (player-viral.swf) is present. If it isn't it checks for the regular player (player.swf) and uses that.

You see the message about not finding player-viral.swf if the module can't find the player at all (neither of the two were found).

Check that the files are in the right place / have the right name, and to make sure everything is ok go Administer > Site configuration > Performance, and click "Clear cached data" to make sure the SWF Tools cache is reset - this will force it to check for the files again.

fluxrider’s picture

fluxrider commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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syngi commented

Stuart, thanks for clearing up the viral/non-viral issues, that really helped.

After that I still had some problems getting the JW player set up correctly. The main thing was that I had to install the JW player to 'sites/all/modules/swftools/shared' (so you get 'sites/all/modules/swftools/shared/flash_media_player/player.swf').

See the small installation guide I wrote #1243634: JW player installation guide.