Flowplayer 3.1.3 does not display unless wmode = window, and audio playback bug [#580754]

Flowplayer 3.1.3 (the latest version) doesn't seem to work under SWF Tools. Previous versions are ok, but the latest version just displays a blank box (of the right size) but with no player in it.

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Comment #1

Stuart Greenfield CreditAttribution: Stuart Greenfield commented 17 September 2009 at 21:27

Done some further checks - the problem seems to be specific to 3.1.3, both direct and SWF Object 2 embedding. 3.1.2 is ok, so it's something in the recent release.

Arrgh - I like flowplayer but it does seem to be tempermental when it comes to updates!

In the interim the only fix is to NOT use the latest release of flowplayer, but grab an earlier release from the website until I can understand what is going on with it.

Comment #2

Stuart Greenfield CreditAttribution: Stuart Greenfield commented 17 September 2009 at 23:02

Title:	Flowplayer 3.1.3 not working	» Flowplayer 3.1.3 does not display unless wmode = window
Status:	Active	» Postponed

OK, after a lot of experimenting with various bits of code I've pinned the issue down to the wmode setting. If wmode is set to "Window" on the main SWF Tools setting page then the player displays. If you set wmode = opaque or transparent then you get nothing.

This bug only seems to kick in with flowplayer-3.1.3, I've tested with 3.1.2 and 3.0.x and they seem ok.

There's a similar report on the flowplayer website (http://flowplayer.org/forum/8/27052). For now this seems to be a bug with the player, not SWF Tools, so there is currently no work around.

Setting to postponed until the issue is resolved in flowplayer itself.

Comment #3

Stuart Greenfield CreditAttribution: Stuart Greenfield commented 17 September 2009 at 23:17

OK, so now the player is visible I discover it can't playback audio. The site log reports that the audio plug in can't be found (flowplayer.audio-3.1.2.swf), ~~when the latest available audio plug in appears to be version 3.1.0. Renaming the 3.1.0 plug in stops the error being logged, but the audio doesn't play.~~

The flowplayer website audio plugin download page only links to version 3.1.0 of the plugin. You can actually get the 3.1.2 player by fetching the zip directly from http://flowplayer.org/releases/flowplayer.audio/flowplayer.audio-3.1.2.zip. I have no idea why they make it so difficult.