Play Module using JW Flash Player REQUEST...

[Gosha]

Hi, I recently have been playing around with the Play Module to put videos on my CMSMS site.  I tried putting the JW Flash player on there, but I can't get it to load the flv files.  I can embed the mediaplayer.swf file, but just can't get it to properly point to the flv files, sense they are not named flv files.  Can anyone help me out with using the JW Flash Player in the Play module?  Like, what template should I use?  At this point, I don't really care about active x or anything.  Thanks to anyone that can help!

[hexdj]

I would like to see an answer for this as well...

[Ziggywigged]

I'm having the same issue. I'm using the 'Play' modules and CMSMS 1.2.4

Here is what I have in my template for the JW flvplayer:

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<div id="player"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this movie.</div>

<__script__ type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('{$location}','player','{$width}','{$height}','7');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('file','{$file}');
so.addVariable('autostart','false');
so.addVariable('overstretch','false');
so.addVariable('showvolume','true');
so.addVariable("backcolor","0x555555");
so.addVariable("frontcolor","0xffffff");
so.addVariable("lightcolor","0xd52b1e");
so.write('player');
</__script>

The player loads OK, but it's having trouble finding the flv file. Looking at the source code, here's the uri it returns for file:

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index.php%3Fmact%3DPlay%2Cm4%2Cplayfile%2C1%26m4recordid%3D1%26m4returnid%3D57%26page%3D57

Which doesn't seem right. Is it because the {$file} tag is only meant to work with the Neolao player?

[Ziggywigged]

Can anyone help with this?

[dam]

Hello,
The {file} tag is supposed to work with any Flash player. I don't have many free teim now, but I will try to find what's happening soon

[Ziggywigged]

Ok, guys I finally got it to work for me. Here's what I've done:

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<div id="player"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this movie.</div>

<__script__ type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('{$location}','player','{$width}','{$height}','7');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addVariable('file','{$file}{foreach from=$player_params item=v}{$v}{/foreach}');
so.addVariable('showvolume','true');
so.addVariable("backcolor","0x555555");
so.addVariable("frontcolor","0xffffff");
so.addVariable("lightcolor","0xd52b1e");
so.write('player');
</__script>

Note: You'll have to specify the 'file' param for the FLVplayer which would be the same as 'Location' when adding a video. It's not the best fix but it should work.

Only problem is you'll lose the ability to apply specific params for each video. Not an issue for me since i'm using the same params for all videos. If you do apply params it will disable the video from playing.

Hope that helps some folks.