I used the wizad to create the mediaplayer with a playlist of flv movies example which was an xml file for blip tv but i need to know how to get my own videos into a playlist that fits into the side menu.
My website is at http://www.geocities.com/go_robertboyer/TriUnityDreamTeam/TriUnity-DreamTeam3.html
if I simply give you 2 movies I want to have placed in the side menu can you create a xml playlist http link so in the wizard i can just enter that and the embed code will then play my movies? Maybe i need to setup a blog like the one that they have at there playlist file at: http://mirror.video.blip.tv/hot-shows.xml
You should download the JW Media Player package from here:[url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/mediaplayer-3-14.zip]download the FLV Media Player here[/url] and place the mediaplayer.swf and swfobject.js files on your own server/host.
A playlist is just a text file (use Notepad or another *text* editor to edit it), in this format:bc.. <?xmlversion='1.0'encoding='UTF-8'?> <playlistversion='1'xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'> <trackList> <track> <creator>Artist</creator> <title>Song1</title> <location>http://my.domain.com/path-to-file/song1.mp3</location> </track> <track> <creator>Artist</creator> <title>Video1</title> <location>http://my.domain.com/path-to-file/video.flv</location> <image>http://my.domain.com/path-to-file/preview.jpg</image> <info>http://my.domain.com/</info> </track> </trackList> </playlist>
Replace the data within the tags with your own data, then upload it to your server/host.
For example, replace this:bc.. <creator>Artist</creator> with this:bc.. <creator>Robert</creator> to change the creator's name.
Then your player code would look somethng like this:bc.. <scripttype="text/javascript"src="http://www.geocities.com/go_robertboyer/TriUnityDreamTeam/swfobject.js"></script>
The thumbnail images come from the image element of the playlist:bc.. <image>http://my.domain.com/path-to-file/*preview.jpg*</image> The player will resize them to fit the playlist (60x40).
Thank you for your help...that was very detailed and simple.
I think I have everything in place correctly but now there is just a blank where the player goes.
Maybe it is because my movies are not flv but swf?
Here is the playlist code I created....labeled it playlist.txt and uploaded it into the same file as my website page and all other files associated with the player.
bc.. "Here is the playlist code I created....labeled it *playlist.txt* and uploaded it into the same file as my website page and all other files associated with the player."
Looks to me as if this code is looking for *playlist.xml, NOT* playlist.txt:bc.. so.addVariable('file', 'http://www.geocities.com/go_robertboyer/TriUnityDreamTeam/*playlist.xml*');
yes I saw that....but was not sure how to create an xml file....you mentioned to create text file....and when creating that there is no save as xml.....how do you create an xml file?
Also if I want to add some videos from a playlist at blip tv i could not see how to do that either as the codes they have under share at blip tv did not work....they only seem to work in the xml file that comes as a sample in the flv player wizard.
got it to work sort of....changed to xml by choosing the code-8 option when saving the playlist.xml.....then noticed there was a space where it should not be and that got things working....but my first movie did not load automatically....you had to click the 2nd movie and then click back to the first movie to actually view it.....the first movie did start automatically as you could see the bottom buffer bar moving along....but it was dark...no picture until you clicked each movie back and forth......the 2nd movie came out ok except buffering time when i created it may need to be reset.....as it always stalls.....it did not stall in the camtasia thetater but cannot get an embed code for camtasisa theater and like flv media player better.....so you could view my movies and see if you know why it is not working good....also after viewing each movie once or twice....it gores into a mode where only the image shows and the movies dont pklay....then after awhile they play again....would like them to play whenever clkicked and the first movie to be shown when vistors arrive at my site...
the first movie to show should be the tiop one in the playlist menu.....but it seems to show the movie that was shown last whenever you revisit the site unless you delete cache history and temp files...
An xml file is just a plain text file with everything enclosed within tags. It can be UTF8, but doesn't have to be.
To get the first movie to always show first, add shuffle false to your flashvars.
The mode where the movies do not play the second time until after a delay is a weird caching behavior of Internet Explorer. Apparently, it is looking in it's cache to see if it shuld play the movie from the cache or request it from the server. It can cause delays of 2-3 minutes. I think the way around that behavior is to add some random garbage after the file, but I haven't done it, so I can't tell you exactly what to do. Try searching the forums for "cache random" and you will find some proposed solutions.
added the shuffle...it seems to remain consistent in bringing up the 1st movie.....the movies are not playing at the moment and if I click on the html file location for each movie sometimes it gives a message that says Sorry, Unable to process request at this time -- error 999. Unfortunately, we are unable to process your request at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later.
this is hosted with geocities....not sure but looks like the webhost could be a problem....here is my movie location
maybe some of my problem is with the camtasia settings when i produced each movie and because of the webhost. hope the new webhost on the run system that flv media player owners are creating will make this a simple process.....even at camtasia it is difficult as i have been trying to get this to work for several weeks.....and there theater worked well in the original html file on my computer but could not get an imbed code and insert it to my website and they said they could not create an embed code for their theater so hopefully can get the flv media player to work. It seems to work fairly good with the blip tv xml playlist.
can you explain step by step how to create an xml playlist like the blip tv one.....I think that is a blog that is subscribed to the rss feed of the hot tv shows......if I create a video blog will that work the same way......how would i do it exactly like the sample in the flv media player wizaed under media player and list of flvs?
I've been reading these forums for the past week trying to find the easiest way to have my videos play with a playlist on my site and keep running into a wall. I'm using the Red 5 server and only playing "FLV" files using the JW FLV player. All videos are uploaded to "usr/lib/red5/webapps/oflaDemo/streams". Now I can play the files just fine normally, but in trying to get a playlist to show on the right side, with out thumbnail images or autoscroll....this is my playlist code so far;
bc.. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/"> <trackList> <track> <title>Video</title> <creator>Myself</creator> <location>rtmp://69.***.***.***/oflaDemo</location> *(the asterisk's are replaced with numbers) * <identifier>agent_outro.flv</identifier> *(I read with the Red5 server, you need to add ".flv")* <meta rel="type">rtmp</meta> </track> </trackList> </playlist>
Here is the PHP code so far;
bc.. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
Please see the tutorial here: [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Embedding_Flash]*EMBEDDING FLASH*[/url] specifically the section titled *Flashvars problems*bc.. Three problems related to flashvars often cause them not to load. The first relates to relative linking of files. *When linking to MP3, image and XML files, you should always start from the location of the HTML in which the SWF is embedded.* So, in the previous example, if the SWF was to be put in a subdirectory, the flashvar pointing to the playlist would remain to be file=playlist.xml and not file=../playlist.xml! There's an exception: the path of FLV files should be given relatively from the SWF file. In order to prevent confusion, you can always point to files using an absolute URL (including the http://www part).
Your first line of JS code is missing the root symbol "/" before *shared/flash_video/mediaplayer.swf*
Then your playlist.xml should be referenced from wherever your HTML page is located.
It's best to use full URIs until you get things working, then you can experiment with relative/absolute URIs, which are tricky because of the way the Flash player references different types of files.
Thanks for the info. I added the root symbol "/" and I realized that I didn't have "playlist.xml" in the same folder as the mediaplayer, so I uploaded it there and the video now plays, only whatever is in the first playlist track. I added more tracks referencing to different files, but it still only plays the first one in the list. Also, the playlist doesn't show up anywhere. Do I need to make the window bigger? I can't point to the original "HTML" page, because that page is a PHP document called "control.php". The only HTML page is once the video is clicked on the web page, it opens a new window, which is the code in my last post above. Any ideas?
mine almost works with the above instructions Ajax gave me. Check my website to see the playlist in the right.....i have 2 problems #1. both movies sometimes only play once #2 the starting movie which is set for autostart does start but there is no picture of the mvie unless you click the other movie and then click back.
To make the playlist show, you need to add height.
Your video is probably 640x480 so add 20px for the control bar plus 23px for each track or 41px if you want thumbnails in the playlist. Then set displayheight to 480 to fix the display area.
So 3 tracks would be 480 + 20 + (23 * 3) = 569=height (in two places)
The next thing that my company wants, is to give the viewer the ability to watch a whole training video all he way through or let them pick which segment that want to watch. I already have the videos broke down into segments, but how do I make the player open on...lets say the 5th video out of 10...and then play through the end with the playlist on the side. For the full video I'll just have it point to the first video in the the XML file and play through the list in order, but my question is; How can I have my "Playlist.xml" point to a specific file when clicked on?
If your going to send me to this page: bc.. http://therealandonlyghostdot.googlepages.com/home
I can't seem to get it to work right. does anyone have any example's? Where do I find the "AbstractController.as" file to modify it's code?
Im not sure, if Im at the right place with my question, but I got a problem with the playlist (for the mp3-player) too. I want to use the mp3 player in a popup, so that the music doesnt change if someone uses a link, but when I fill in an URL between the "<info>-Tags" the new site opens in the popup too. So Im searching a solution where or how I could fill in "_blank" to open all this info-sites in an new site. This would be very important, because I want to show some songs of not so well known bands, and they could need it as promotion.
I dont know much about coding, so I hope, someone can help me. Thanks a lot.
Hi there! I have nearly the same problem as Pete. But I can't find the mistake in my codes. I just saved the documents on the Local Disk of the computer in a folder, because it is just a test to see how to make a flash player this a playlist work. Here are the codes I have so far:
If I browse the html-file I can see the player and the list, but the movies aren't working at all. I'm searching since hours for a solution, but I can't find anyone with the same problem... ; ) It must be something really sipmle, I think.
Ok, to solve my problem, I did away with opening a new window for the playlist and used the multiple playlist drop down function to solve my problem. Here is the code I used and just change the paths to your files and you should be sweet.
.title { font-family: century gothic, arial, sans serif; color:#000000; font-size:14px; font-weight:bold;} </style> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> <title><?= ucwords(str_replace("_", " ", $_REQUEST['vid_name'])); ?></title> </head> <center> <body onLoad="createPlayer(document.theForm.sel1.value)"> <div class="title"> Please choose a video from the drop down menu below and use the Playlist to the right of the player to navigate to which video you would like to see. Once the playlist loads, simply click on the first item in the playlist and enjoy! </div>
got my problem fixed and it is working well. It was just my webhost had a limit on the size of each video and they fixed that.....then i had some files which were .swf and when I changed them to .flv they all worked consistently after the webhost fixed their problem.
well spoke too soon. I changed webhosts and now the movies do not work at both webhosts at approximately the same time. So that seems like it is not a limit on the size of the movies when the movies work sometimes and sometimes they dont and it happens at both webhosts on different websites at approximately the same time. Maybe as Ajax mentioned above it is because of the cache but when researching this on the net i could not figure out what the solution was....
ajax mentioned...
The mode where the movies do not play the second time until after a delay is a weird caching behavior of Internet Explorer. Apparently, it is looking in it's cache to see if it shuld play the movie from the cache or request it from the server. It can cause delays of 2-3 minutes. I think the way around that behavior is to add some random garbage after the file, but I haven't done it, so I can't tell you exactly what to do. Try searching the forums for "cache random" and you will find some proposed solutions
but now that i read this....it happens on both firefox and internet explorer......and it lasts for up to 2 hours sometimes.....today started greate....even thought they fixed it.....as it worked over and over for along time.....then nothing.....still confused and need to find the solution.
Hi, my XML playlist for our YouTube videos won't work. I've tried different formats from the forums, everything. Here's the link to the playlist: *http://www.bwcfilms.co.nr/allvideos.xml*
Here's the code: bc.. <playlist version="1"> <title>All BWC Films Videos</title>
<info>
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Media_Player </info> <annotation> Every video released by BWC Films. </annotation>
<trackList>
<track> <title>Chariots on Fire</title> <creator/>
Sorry about all of the spaces. I used it to differentiate between the different places to put video files. Anything that I'm doing wrong? When I put it into the JW Setup Wizard it doesn't load. Send me a reply at
I would have 2 questions too. I would like to stream wmv files the jw player does it work with wmv or only with flv files? The nother question is that how can set the location of a file that I want to play? I mean I can I do it so:
./dirname/dirname/file.flv or I have to type in a web acces for it.
I tested my player code with the playlist at http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/statistics.xml and the player appeared and worked fine, but it doesn't even appear with my playlist (http://brentsplace.info/playlist.xml). I just get the white background and the round timer.
Do you have to create an XML playlist with a generator? Or can you just paste the code suggested in this thread into Notepad, or in my case, EditPad Lite, and save the file with an .xml extension? If the former, Charlie Craig's generator says "You must specify a directory to scan." when I drop an flv-containing folder on it that's in the same directory as the vbs and swf files. If the latter, what's wrong with the code in my playlist'?
bc.. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','470','575','8'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addVariable('height','575'); so.addVariable('width','470'); so.addVariable('file','http://brentsplace.info/playlist.xml'); so.addVariable('displayheight','350'); so.write('player'); </script>
the playlist is ok - but you must upload *swfobject.js* and *mediaplayer.swf* to your site along with playlist.xml (both in the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player]downloaded[/url] .zip file) from the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Supported_Playlists]Supported Playlists[/url] page: bc.. a playlist should always reside on the same server as the SWF file, due to security restrictions of the Flash Player no need to generate playlists, saving with plain text editor should be fine...
Oh that's right. I saw that earlier but forgot when testing it. Unlike my frustrating experience with Flow Player, FLV Media Player's finally working now. Thanks!
I have mediaplayer.swf, playlist.xml, swfobject.js and a test flv file all in the same folder.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. We lost our Webmaster just recently and since I'm the IT Manager, the GM through this task at me. I'm quite a bit rusty with my coding.
@Tom - your code, playlist and videos works fine when i test, but your player is somewhat old, you might want to [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player]update[/url] also make sure your flash browser plugin is up to date (feb. 08 - v.9.0.115) adobe version test: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507
Hi, Maybe somebody can help? I am also trying to get my xml playlist to work with my flv player. But I keep getting a white box where the player is. I know it's there because I can see it when I right click on it. These are the codes:
Due to Adobe Flash Player security restrictions, the *mediaplayer.swf* file and all XML files must come from the *_EXACT_* same domain.
This:bc.. http://www.cruzsongs.com/mediaplayer.swf is *NOT* the exact same domain as this:bc.. http://cruzsongs.com/playlist.xml So add the *www* to the playlist URI.
Can I ask you how can I get my "images" for my songs in my playlist to show up next to the player and not in the player? And of course to click on the images to go to the video on the player.
Keep your playlist; depending on what method of creating the links you choose, you may need it. Just add to the code that you already have. The mediaplayer.swf is the same for all applications. Do you have the latest version? Right-click on the player to see if it's v3.15.
I'm sorry I didn't post yet, last night got to late and today is going very quickly. : (
I did get to look at the demo page and was wondering how do I get the code for what I need? Do I right click and copy and paste the sample HTML then play with it? Or is there another way to get the code that I need?
I know this is wrong, but I really don't know what I'm doing. : (
This is the HTML on my page:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>new video with links test</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript">
function createplayer(theFile, go) { var s = new SWFObject("mediaplayer.swf","playerID","400","245","7"); s.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s.addVariable("file",theFile); s.addVariable("width","400"); s.addVariable("height","245"); s.addVariable("displayheight","225"); s.addVariable("overstretch","fit"); if (go) { s.addVariable("autostart","true"); } s.write("placeholder"); } </script> </head> <body onload="createplayer('video.flv', false)"> <br> <br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001flv', true)">Holy After You</a><br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('lovefortoday.flv', true)">Love For Today</a><br> <br> <br> <div id="player">mediaplayer</div> <script type="text/javascript">var so = new SWFObject('http://www.cruzsongs.com/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','340','255','8'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addVariable('height','255'); so.addVariable('width','340'); so.addVariable('file','http://www.cruzsongs.com/playlist.xml'); so.addVariable('frontcolor','0x000000'); so.addVariable('screencolor','0x0000FF'); so.addVariable('showstop','true'); so.write('player');</script><br> </body> </html>
This is the test page http://www.cruzsongs.com/linkvideotest.html
I am trying to have one player and multiple video text links. Right now there should be 2 videos. Is one of my problems the xml playlist I've used for a different function, and it maybe shouldn't be uploaded? There is also a picture in the player which I don't want and again it's from the old xml playlist.
If someone could help me with this, that would be very helpful. Thanks.
I'm not sure if this will work, but give it a try and let me know: bc.. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <center> <head> <title>new video with links test</title>
<div id="player"> <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Plugin</a> to see this video. </div> <br> <br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001.flv', true)">Holy After You</a><br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('lovefortoday.flv', true)">Love For Today</a><br> <br> <br> </body> </center> </html>
I just noticed that in your HTML you provided you left out the (period) in between the video name and FLV here: bc.. <a href="javascript:createplayer('*holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001flv*', true)">Holy After You</a><br>
Look at the demo page and view page source to see how they made links here bc.. "http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer/"
This is the example I assume you are following: bc.. <html> <!-- saved from url=(0014)about:internet --> <!-- page by andersen --> <head> <title>Simple list example</title>
function createplayer(theFile, go) { var s = new SWFObject("mediaplayer.swf","playerID","400","245","7"); s.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s.addVariable("file",theFile); s.addVariable("width","400"); s.addVariable("height","245"); s.addVariable("displayheight","225"); s.addVariable("overstretch","fit"); if (go) { s.addVariable("autostart","true"); } s.write("placeholder"); } </script>
Minimal but safe example of Jeroen Wijerings <a href="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player">FLV Mediaplayer</a><br>
with a plain link playlist...<br> <br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('video.flv', true)">video</a><br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('video_remember_this_1.flv', true)">video2</a><br> <a href="javascript:createplayer('video_remember_this_2.flv', true)">video3</a><br> <br> <div id="placeholder"><a href='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'>get the flash player</a> to see this player.</div>
I was looking at that example from the demo page. I just don't understand it, YET.
The code you sent back to me didn't have a player in it. It had a link to get a flash player from macromedia, which I already have in my computer. But nothing happened. I uploaded it to http://www.cruzsongs.com/linkvideotest3.html.
I need some help on this. I originally have a xml playlist for this page. But it's not what I was looking for. So now I am trying to set up the "linkplaylist" from the Demo Page but it is not working. Should I trash the xml playlist that I upload to my ftp and change the code for my player? Or should I create a new player and go from there?
I really don't know what to do next. If anyone could help me and talk me thru this, that would be great.
Glad you got it to work, but I still noticed that on this line bc.. <a href="javascript:createplayer('holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001flv', true)">Holy After You</a><br>
You need to change it to : bc.. <a href="javascript:createplayer('holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001.flv', true)">Holy After You</a><br>
The period NEEDS to be between the file name *holyafteryouwithmonotrk2_001* and the extension *flv*
Also...the player IS being created when it says: bc.. function createplayer(theFile)
"theFile" is referenced in a function to be what is in your playlist. In the body of the document, it is created with this line: bc.. <body onload="createPlayer(theFile);">
I suggest using an XML playlist and make it look much neater then using HTML and having a boatload of links all over your page.
Thanks for the info. You might still be looking at one of my test pages, with these errors. The missing period is fixed, thanks. I agree with you and I did end up with a XML playlist after all. And it looks great. Like I said in my last posting, that after a while the codes started making sense. You can check out the page I'm building at www.cruzsongs.com.
I do have a question for you or anyone else that might be able to answer. How come the flash player (FLV player) doesn't show up on Netscape? Or does it and I'm just not getting it?
bc.. Is there any way of adding "Album" credits to the XML playlist?
I would say try adding it using your video editor program with a title screen. Depending on how many credits you have, you could make a short FLV with them (say 10 seconds) and add it to your playlist at the end. Using the flashvar (*s1.addVariable('repeat', 'list');*) it will automatically play after your last song. Just some suggestions ;)
bc.. How come the flash player (FLV player) doesn't show up on Netscape?
Now that could be a problem with not using a correct tag, such as embed. I work on a Mac and only use Firefox, but I know my clients use IE, so I usually test for both of those. I just downloaded Netscape v.9 for the Mac and it played fine. Both Firefox and Netscape were developed very similar.
flvplayer with .xml playlist... I've looked at this over and over again and I just can't work out what I'm doing wrong. Please can someone help me! I have the mediaplayer.swf and the swfobject.js in the same location etc... but I just get a black player with nothing on it. Here's the code:
sorry if this is annoying and going over the same problem as loads of other people, but my head will explode soon if I don't sort this out! Thanks very much in advance...
@Jimmy something goes terribly wrong with your playlist! this is how the first few lines looks when i open it from here 'http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/try/playlist.xml' : bc.. < ? x m l v e r s i o n = ' 1 . 0 ' e n c o d i n g = ' U T F - 8 ' ? > < p l a y l i s t v e r s i o n = ' 1 ' x m l n s = ' h t t p : / / x s p f . o r g / n s / 0 / ' > < t r a c k L i s t > < t r a c k > < t i t l e > A r e Y o u T h e U n i v e r s e ? < / t i t l e > < c r e a t o r > M i k e B e n n < / c r e a t o r > < l o c a t i o n > h t t p : / / w w w . j i m m y y o u n g d e s i g n . c o m / t r y / f l v / m i k e b _ u n i v e r s e . f l v < / l o c a t i o n >
to show the thumbnails in the playlist - set *thumbsinplaylist* to true - from the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Supported_Flashvars]Supported Flashvars[/url]: bc.. *thumbsinplaylist* (true): Set this to false to hide preview images in the display (and restrict the buttons to a single line).
the problem now with the playlist seem to be the linebreaks in the urls - this list works for me: bc.. <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <playlist version='1' xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'> <trackList> <track> <title>Are You The Universe?</title> <creator>Mike Benn</creator> <location>http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/try/flv/mikeb_universe.flv</location> <info>http://www.peterjonesmusic.net/</info> <image>http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/try/flv/mikeb_universe.jpg</image> <annotation>From Kill Kill Faster Faster (Aria Films) 2008</annotation> <meta rel="duration">00:02:18</meta> </track> <track> <title>Leaving Home</title> <creator>Mike Benn</creator> <location>http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/try/flv/mikeb_home.flv</location> <info>http://www.peterjonesmusic.net/</info> <image>http://www.jimmyyoungdesign.com/try/flv/mikeb_universe.jpg</image> <annotation>From Truck of Dreams (Sahara One)</annotation> <meta rel="duration">00:01:21</meta> </track> </trackList> </playlist>
Is there a way to slow down the XML Playlist scrolling speed? The scrolling looks great but seems to moving quickly thru the list. I was wondering it there was a way to slow the scrolling feature.
You are calling a FLV file and an image in your flashvars. You should call the playlist.xml in your flashvars. The image comes from the playlist.
So, change this:bc.. flashvars="height=300&width=450&*file=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/videos/flugzeug.flv&image=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/videos/flugzeug.jpg&id=2*&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x3399ff&lightcolor=0xEF3F03&screencolor=0x000000&logo=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/Bilder/video-logo.png&autoscroll=true&displayheight=300"" to this:bc.. flashvars="height=300&width=450&*file=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/videos/playlist.xml*&backcolor=0xFFFFFF&frontcolor=0x3399ff&lightcolor=0xEF3F03&screencolor=0x000000&logo=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/Bilder/video-logo.png&autoscroll=true&displayheight=300" and you have one too many double quotes after displayheight=300. And you don't need an 'id' flashvar. Use whatever file name you want for for your playlist, but it must have a extension of *xml* for good luck !!
The page does load in Opera9 and your first video of the aborted airplane landing plays.
However, your playlist has a bad, unnecessary ending tag. Here's what Opera has to say about your [url=http://gamerphil.saar-pc.de/hp/playlist.xml]*playlist.xml*[/url]:bc.. XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 13, Character: 0)
Reparse document as HTML Error:unexpected end-tag (no current element) Specification:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/ 10: </track> 11: </trackList> 12: </playlist> 13: </xml> so get rid of the "</xml>".
Got it working in the meanwhile. these are the new codes if it can help: embed in swf(copied player clip from source fla into my main fla right where i want player to be and one clip before thisi put the following code) var width = 648.6; var height = 296; var showdigits = true; var showstop = true; var showicons = false; var thumbsinplaylist = true; var usefullscreen = false; var bufferlength = 5; var lightcolor = 0x333333; var backcolor = 0xFFFFFF; var frontcolor = 0x000000; var autoscroll = true; var repeat = false; var shuffle = false; var displaywidth = 300; var file = "playlist.xml"
bc.. I want to know if i can just overwrite the old files from ver. 1.14 with the new filef ver 1.15... OK, you lost me here. Are you talking about v*3*.14 to v*3*.15 of the mediaplayer.swf. If so, yes, just overwrite the mediaplayer.swf file. Nothing else changed.
I read many messages about playlist.xml troubles here, but I can't fix the problem with my own playlit!
In my server, I have created a folder called /tv/ where I put the the flvplayer.swf (version 3.15), the swfobject.js, html, xml, jpg and all flv files. So, to see my player you have to go to http://universopokemon.net/tv.
It works fine, but I can see only the first image with the first movie, when I have more files in my playlist. Also, when I put the 'default' xml used for some demos in demo page ('http://mirror.video.blip.tv/hot-shows.xml'), the playlist shows perfectly all files, so the problem I have got must be on my playlist.xml.
For a better explanation, you can see my 'index.html' code: bc.. <html> <head>
1) I have a googlepages site where I put mediaplayer.swf, swfobjet.js and jokoxml.xml jokoxml.xml is the playlist. My question is: Why cant get to the out link , http://free.guba.com/uploaditem/3000121035/flash.flv ? the jokoplaylist:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://jokolos.googlepages.com/swfobject.js"></script> <div id="player">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('http://jokolos.googlepages.com/mediaplayer.swf','mpl','350','150','8'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addVariable('width','350'); so.addVariable('height','150'); so.addVariable('file','http://jokolos.googlepages.com/jokoxml.xml'); so.addVariable('displaywidth','200'); so.write('player'); </script>
I dont see the list on the mediaplayer and I can't access to the external link I hope someone can help me!
I've also got a problem with getting my playlist to work. A single file works fine but I can't get it to work with a playlist. I've got all the files in the same directory? Here's my html code :
two problems: you need to delete all the minus signs *-* from the playlist !
i get a file not found when i try the addresses: http://www.defeestformule.nl/Sutemi.flv and Tenbin.flv in the browser addressline if you have actually uploaded the files there, it can be the mime problem - from the [url=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player]JW_FLV_Media_Player[/url] page: bc.. If FLV playback doesn't work on your site which runs off an IIS server, the FLV mimetype isn't added to the server. Please contact your webserver administrator on this (if you're an admin, [url=http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19439]here's how to fix it[/url]).
That problem with the "minus signs" crops up a lot. It stems from people loading the playlist into a browser window and then copy-pasting it into a text file. Somewhere we should point people to "view source" if they want to do it that way, or just "Save page as" which seems to work here on my Mac Pro with Firefox (creates a plain-text file).
Hi! My Videos on JW-Player do work. But I want to add my playlist with some more settings. Such as more informations, categories and so on. And: When I play a video in the player, the video does work and it is fully loading, but there is no chance to go forwards or go to a special point of the video that I do want. I am missing that little controller in the upload-line.
Hi Everyone, I've been reading all the posts and trying all the solutions given but I still cannot get my player to work. I think it has something to do with my playlist since when I change the link to go straight to an mp3 it works but when I go to my playlist it does not. Here is my playlist;
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <playlist version='1' xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'> <trackList> <track> <creator>Dude Man Bro</creator> <title>Dude Man Bro</title> <location>http://www.dudemanbro.com/upload/DudeManBro.mp3</location> </track> <track> <creator>Dude Man Bro</creator> <title>Bald Bald Britney</title> <location>http://www.dudemanbro.com/upload/BaldBaldBritney.mp3</location> </track> </trackList> </playlist>
All the files are in the same folder on my server as well as the mediaplayer.swf and swfobject.js
Seems like maybe your playlist is missing. This URL [url=http://www.dudemanbro.com/upload/playlist.xml]http://www.dudemanbro.com/upload/playlist.xml[/url] gives the: "The page cannot be found" error.
Hello, is there any way to group your playlist by aritsts so people click on an artist and it makes a right scroll animation and then displays all the tracks by them? I'm using this to showcase many by radically different genres and it would really help. Thanks a lot, this software is great.
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