for curiosity just spend few minutes to install and tryout, and was convinced that the player would also run .flv files
as creating a simple node with embedding the js code calling the swfobject.js and the player.swf

code example:

<embed width="600" height="445" flashvars="file=/sites/www.example.com/files/video/mymedia.flv" wmode="opaque" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" name="ply" id="ply" style="" src="/sites/www.example.com/files/plugins/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" class=" ">

using:

[jwplayer|config=myplayer|file=/sites/www.example.com/files/video/mymedia.flv]

does not work giving back a blank node.

I may sure misunderstanding because editing the jwplayermodule.module I see that you have to download a special version that is made for the drupal module only,
I'm right?

Limiting the play of only .swf media files I guess. So for me is useless and much simple to use my custom script that ask me to insert with a form the
path of my .swf or .flv or other types media files that the free jwplayer run, and have inserted the default embed code in the body field of my node.

Of course this is when you just need to post few media files and was convinced that this jwplayermodule.module would offer something similar but again you have to write code manually so my doubt about the scope and in relation of UI feature that should provide help to newbies is IMHO missing.

Regards

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JW Player commented

@Wolfflow,

Would it be possible for you to give me more detail as to how you went about configuring the module? Did you read the enclosed manual? Is myplayer the name of the config that you created? Did you install the player.swf in the module directory? This last one seems likely since you're getting a "blank" node. The player does support .flv as well as .mp4 files so your video file should not be causing any problems. The module is designed to use the standard JW Player freely available on our website.

The module was designed to be fairly straightforward to use which is why it includes an embed tag/shortcode and has an admin page for configuring the player. If you feel there are areas that can be improved, your feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Wolfflow commented

Well, I suppose that from my code above looks like I did manage to create a custom jwplayer myplayer and also copy and paste the two (.swf ) files, from a free jwplayer download, into the module directory. I did not play with settings presuming the module installation does that for me at the beginning, though I was missing a test link that could send a short message to the user indicating wrong setup maybe. I really do not want to complain as I suggest that for newbies such heavy informative text about the great work of LongTailVideo could in a way disorient such type of user and leading to get very quick frustrated. Please allow me to say that I'm no proof, neither an advanced coder but like to investigate around many contrib and core modules from the perspective of a newbie user.

Edit: Did not want to make another comment: Security Note:

The JW Player Setup does not have any administrative user permission settings and is therefor viewable from anonymous users at admin/settings/jwplayermodule if site admin wants to allow access to an admin toolbar theme if wish to provide i.e. Help links to his anonymous users.

Finally the blank_node page did show my .flv test-movie but I guess it has something to do if you omit the ..|image:none] in the tag sequence in the body-field of the test node.

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JW Player commented

I'm still unclear if you're having a problem getting the module to work. Do you have a link to your test page that I can take a look at?

As for the security issue I can't replicate what you're describing. Access to the module's admin pages is linked to the ability to access administration pages. If a user has permission to access the administration pages then they can access the module's admin pages, otherwise they can't. Can you explain your setup in more detail so I can try and replicate it locally?

Thanks.

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Wolfflow commented

Thank you for your quick replay. And excuse me if I did not explain everything clearly.
I give you my sandbox site address: Drupal 6.17 Sandbox on thanage.eu
use demo as user and pwd to access. Thought I did not yet install the jwplayer module but will try next.

Note: I did not go also in describing every details on my local test site because I guess that I did some special custom hacks to
Drupal 6.17 core and contributed modules which may conflict with some default settings of jwplayer module.

Anyway again thanks for your feedback aslo and will try to continue to contribute to your efforts.

Regards

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JW Player commented

Thanks for the link. Let me know if you try the module again and I'll take a look to see if I can get a better understanding about your permissions and blank page issues.

Thanks.

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vidichannel commented

Just sharing my experience to help others. Does work with FLV for sure. I got the module to work well with a number of different options and JWPlayer plugins. Very extensible, skinnable and great for H.264. I did this a few weeks back, but I do recall it was necessary to use v4.6 of the player; 5.0 returned a black screen (not a big deal). You can tell which version you have by right clicking on the player video itself.

The names of the extensions also make a difference. For instance, if you encode an .m4v in Premiere you may want to change the name of that extension to .mp4 on the server.

My question, is more related to using the JWPlayer version that works with HTML5 (sans Flash player). Can this module work with the new JWPlayer without Flash installed on the browser (as it would be necessary for playback on an iPad for instance)?

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JW Player commented

@VidiChannel

Thanks for sharing your experiences.

In regards to our HTML 5 player this is not currently supported as the HTML 5 Player is still in beta. We will be looking to update the module once the v1 of the HTML 5 player comes out. This should be happening sometime in the near future.

Thanks.

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