I've been racking my brain for an hour trying to figure out why Video fields weren't showing in my Views preview.

However finally I had the crazy idea of trying the View 'out in the wild' and it seems to be showing the FlowPlayer fine and the video runs as expected.

The output of the Views Preview seems to show the Flowplayer Div is being output, but that the Div has no contents. I can't be sure of course, as I'm using Webkit Debugger which often doesn't represent the output HTML perfectly when compared to View Page Source. As it's a javascript output however, I can't check it against the Page Source!

Anyway, minor annoying problem.

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robinmofo’s picture

robinmofo commented

Hmm .. I don't think this is a bug in Video but rather standard behaviour of Views.
I've never seen a theme apply in the Views preview... but I may be wrong because I'm surprised that the player loads 'at all' in the preview...

Firstly, which method of Flowplayer are you using? Is it via the Flowplayer module or via SWF tools and Flowplayer as the selected radio option?
Secondly, what are your settings for the Views Video field? (Video, Video thumbnail, etc - please state precisely the option you are using).

carn1x’s picture

carn1x commented

Ok, I'm using the Flowplayer API (no SWF Tools) and the field Format is simply set to 'Video'. I have not themed the View at all, it's just using the standard template files if that's what you mean?

If this is standard behaviour then no problem, but this is the first time I've ever encountered something that didn't render in Views Preview is all. It's also the first time I've ever used the Video module along with Views.

Thanks!

iLLin’s picture

iLLin commented

Yea views preview can be flaky for certain things. But when you add js after js after js... those things sorta happen. As long is it works fine when rendered you are good to go.

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