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Refresh RSS Playlist

Hi!

I'm looking to get an embedded player to always play the latest videos from an RSS feed. So if the RSS feed content has updated, I want the playlist to update.

The basic way to do this is a META refresh on the page, but hoping for a neater solution.

I thought I might be able to set a timeout in javascript to either reload the player, or get it to load the playlist again. I tried this but it just causes a "No playable sources found" error;

jwplayer("player).load({playlist:"/the/url/rss"});

The playlist url is the same one used in the .setup so I know it's okay.


Any tips?

Thanks!

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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Can you try doing:

jwplayer(“player).load(”/the/url/rss");

-Cooper

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jamesw

User  
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Hi Cooper.

Getting strange results. Here is an exert of what I have;

<div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-0'></div>

<script type='text/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)=="function"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-0').setup({"aspectratio":"4:3","width":"100%","autostart":true,"mute":true,"primary":"html5","repeat":true,"playlist":"first/url/here"});
</script>

<div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-1'></div>

<script type='text/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)=="function"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-1').setup({"aspectratio":"4:3","width":"100%","autostart":true,"mute":true,"primary":"html5","repeat":true,"playlist":"second/url/here"});
</script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
setTimeout("refreshPL()",10000);

function refreshPL() {
jwplayer("jwplayer-0").load("first/url/here");
jwplayer("jwplayer-0").play(true);
jwplayer("jwplayer-1").load("second/url/here");
jwplayer("jwplayer-1").play(true);

setTimeout("refreshPL()",40000);
}
</script>


When refreshPL() runs both players load the playlist but only one starts playing but a few seconds into the first video. I can click play and get them going again but I don't want that to be necessary. If I remove that refresh function the players work as expected, looping the playlists.

Thanks

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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You may not need to call .play() after you call load. Also, I recommend writing your setTimeout calls like this:
setTimeout(refreshPL, 40000);
-Cooper

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jamesw

User  
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Having made those changes I now get the error;

Uncaught TypeError: jwplayer(...).load is not a function

---

<script type='text/javascript'>
setTimeout(refreshPL(),10000);

function refreshPL() {
jwplayer("jwplayer-0").load("/rss/url/");
// jwplayer("jwplayer-0").play(true);
jwplayer("jwplayer-1").load("/rss/url2/");
// jwplayer("jwplayer-1").play(true);

setTimeout(refreshPL(),40000);
}
</script>

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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You still need to setup your player before you begin binding events and calling .load on it:
jwplayer(“jwplayer-0”).setup({
file: ‘bunny.mp4’,
title: ‘Bunny’,
image: ‘bunny.jpg’,
width:‘100%’
});

//the rest of your code

-Cooper

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jamesw

User  
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Yes, I was implying I left the .setup lines in there.

Never mind, thanks for trying.

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Cooper Reid

JW Player Support Agent  
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Can you please provide a link so we can troubleshoot your issue?

Regards,
Cooper

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