I'm not sure wether that's an SWF-Tools problem or a Video module problem. :/

I use swftools, flowplayer to display a video field. When I choose an swftools-formatter to display the player, the original video is being buffered instead of the converted one. This didn't happen in 3.x - I suspect because as soon as the video has been converted in 3.x, field references have been adjusted to point to the converted video.

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iLLin commented

That is correct. 4.x maintains the original video and the formatter fetches the converted file. If you choose "Video" as your formatter and setup the player to use swftools, it will use w/e player you have configured for swftools (flowplayer in your example).

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gnwc commented

Hi -

Can you please elaborate on #1? I'm not sure how to get the FLV player to fetch the converted file, rather than the original.
I've set up the player to use swftools (under the 'Players' tab in /admin/settings/video/players), but where do I set "video" as the formatter?

Thanks

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

gnwc: You choose which formatter to use in the "Field Display" page (/admin/content/types/[insert name of display type here]/display). There's a dropdown in the row of your video field. If previously you installed SWF Tools, there will be a number of options named "SWF Tools ...". *Do not use these, as they will load the _original video_. Instead, use "Video".

As I understand it, using "Video" will use whatever player you configured on the SWF Tools configuration page as it grabs it's info from there, I suppose. I figured that earlier, but I just wondered wether that is the way it is supposed to be. :-)

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iLLin commented

Yea, the player will just call the swf() function and from however you have swftools configured it will build your player like that.

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errand commented

Hello.
I've updated video module from 3x to 6.x-4.1-rc2
Conversion works fine, converted videos are in the "converted" folder, but they do not play, because the "swf tools" is trying to display the videos from the "original" folder

According to genox displaying "Video" in content type works fine for 4.x but not for 3.x videos(from older version)

Is there any clue?

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entrigan commented

swftools 3.x now has profiles, which require changing the field display to work. So basically it would be nice to find a workaround, either on this end, or on swftools' end that will allow for using profiles with the converted media.

Maybe this should be a setting on swftools "Use videos converted by video module if they exist", or maybe this should be a video module setting.

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Status: Active » Fixed

@errand in 3.x version we replaced the filefield field values once conversion is completed, but 4.x we keep the original for later use. If you want to use SWFTools we added a option. Go to Video Settings -> Players -> Set the SWFTools as FLV player, that should work.

@entrigan Since we are using SWFTools API this much be possible. If you use SWFTools as player we are invoking correct API with converted video, so it will use converted video.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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

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3dloco commented

Had the same issue when using SWF Tools 6.x.3x-dev and the instructions on #1 worked for me (configuring the display settings on CCK content type to use Video instead of SWF Tools formatter).

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pragna commented

I am using
Video : 6.x-4.2
SWF Toools : 6.x-2.5

Video file is converted properly using amazon and zencoder, but when I am displaying video using swf() it is trying to display from original video path not converted path.I tried above settings but none of them work for me.

Please help me if anybody knows about it.
Thank you.

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pragna commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active
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Jorrit commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Please do not reuse very old issues. Try release 6.x-4.6, which I just released, to see if it solves your problem. Otherwise, open a new issue.