We need flowplayer to do pseudostreaming for videos on our website. It was pretty easy to get a very basic non-Drupal test page to do this but we've hit a wall trying to figure out how to tell Flowplayer3 in SWF Tools to do it.

Here was my reference from Flowplayer for getting this started: http://www2.flowplayer.org/plugins/streaming/pseudostreaming.html

Here is what works in a simple html page on an isolated test server:


<script type="text/javascript" src="flowplayer-3.2.2.min.js"></script> 

//the below portion is found within the html
<script> 
			flowplayer("player", "../flowplayer-3.2.2.swf", {
			
			plugins: { 
		                lighttpd: { 
                		        url: '../flowplayer.pseudo.swf' 
               			 },					
			},
 
			clip: {		
				url: 'henson.mp4',
				provider: 'lighttpd',
				autoPlay: true 
			},
		});
</script>

We've looked at as many angles as we could, the most in depth of which was to tell SWF Tools to use the Pseudostreaming plugin by editing the "swftools_flowplayer3.module" in swftools\flowplayer3. It feels like this is closest we've gotten but still don't know if we're on the right track. I've attached the unmodified swftools_flowplayer3.module for reference.

Can it be done this way? Is there a better way to add this plugin? If I can offer more details to make the scenario or what we've tried more clear, let me know.

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xmacinfo
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Where you able to find a solution working with SWF Tools?

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Stuart Greenfield commented
Category: support » feature
Priority: Major » Normal
Status: Active » Postponed

Setting priority to normal as part of issue queue tidy up. Changing to feature request as I think this reflects the issue better. Setting to postponed as I won't start on this before the next SWF Tools 6 release, but will give it some thought for SWF Tools 7.

I've not really investigated pseudo-streaming with Flowplayer yet so I will need to give this some thought, and do some tests!

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firecentaur commented

I managed to figure this out! What you need to do is configure your server to allow pseudostreaming first. We did it using the apache module described here: http://tperspective.blogspot.com/2009/02/apache-flv-streaming-done-right...

I was serving flv's, so I had to make sure that my flv had keyframes in it using flvtool2 -u filename.flv

After that, you need to change the flowplayer.module

FROM

$settings = array(
      'flowplayerSwf' => drupal_get_path('module', 'flowplayer') .'/flowplayer/flowplayer.swf',
    );

TO

$settings = array(
      'flowplayerSwf' => drupal_get_path('module', 'flowplayer') .'/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf',
    );

make sure you download and copy flowplayer-3.2.7.swf to sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf

Also change

if ($flowplayer_added === FALSE) {
    // Add the FlowPlayer JavaScript and CSS to the page.
    drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'flowplayer') .'/flowplayer/flowplayer.min.js');

TO

 if ($flowplayer_added === FALSE) {
    // Add the FlowPlayer JavaScript and CSS to the page.
    drupal_add_js(drupal_get_path('module', 'flowplayer') .'/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.6.min.js');

And then finally:

  $config = array(
        'clip' => array(
           
           'url' => $config,
           'provider'=>'pseudo'
        ),
         'plugins'=>array(
           'pseudo'=>array(
              'url'=>  '/sites/all/modules/flowplayer/flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.7.swf' 
           )
         )
      );

and make sure you have flowplayer.pseudostreaming-3.2.7.swf in /sites/all/modules/flowplayer/

That seamed to work for me!

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avpaderno
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Status: Postponed » Closed (outdated)

I am closing this issue, since Drupal 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x are now not supported.