The fullscreen button appears on the control bar but nothing happens when you click on it.
Here is a very simple example to demonstrate the problem
http://www.barkers.fr/test.html
Here is the code
<a href="http://www.barkers.fr/images/stories/videos/player/player.swf?
autostart=true&file=http://www.barkersvideo.com/photos/500540203_cCtsZ-320D.mp4">Click to play</a>
I forgot to mention that he right click 'Toggle fullscreen' doesn't work either.
You have to use a supported method of embedding the player and include the Adobe Flash Player parameter allowfullscreen=true.
I tried adding '&allowfullscreen=true' but that has no effect.
I am using the method above (player.swf?filename&flashvar&anotherflashvar) as Iwant to open up the layer in Shadowbox & that appears to be the only way of doing it. I can use the player built in to Shadowbox but then I cannot pass any flashvars or params. The example I gave was the simplest possible way of showing that fullscreen does not work. Apart from the fulscreen problem it all works erfectly in particular I can swap between two different quality video files using the HD plugin.
In older versions of JW Flash Player the default was always to allow fullscreen but that changed & I don't know how to revert to that behaviour.
Here is an example of code I use to display in a Shadowbox:-
<a href="http://barkersvideo.smugmug.com/photos/495734125_a2mNq-640D.mp4" title="Le Treyas" rel="shadowbox;width=640;height=360;player=flv">View standard video</a>
The inbuilt player is a version of JW Flash Player & I can change things globally by editing the Shadowbox Javascript but I need to be able to pass flashvars on an individual player basis.
Can this be done or is it not possible with this player?
allowfullscreen is an Adobe flash Player parameter, NOT a JW FLV Player flashvar. Therefore you cannot put allowfullscreen in your flashvars. You will have find out how to use Adobe Flash Player parameters in Shadowbox. Perhaps on the Shadowbox forums??
Allowing full screen must be something that the JW FLV player can control as this was the default for many years. The default has changed but left the fullscreen button on the control bar so I see many posts in these forums asking how to remove the button.
Perhapsa modified version of the player could give the old default of always allowing fullscreen?
BTW what is wrong with the method that I am using to invoke the player? It works perfectly for me in all respects apart from the non-functional fullscreen button. In particular the HD plugin allows automatic choice between 2 different quality files depending on the bandwidth available.
That Google search didn't help as I had already read those articles.
The default for V3 JW FLV Player was to allow fullscreen but for some reason this was changed for V4. What do I need to do to revert to the old behaviour?
If you had really read those articles, you would have seen this:
_"To enable full-screen mode, developers must add a new <object> and <embed> tag parameter, allowFullScreen, to their HTML. This parameter defaults to false, or not allowing full screen. To allow full-screen, developers must set allowFullScreen to true in their <object>/<embed> tags."_
Note that is says, *_"This parameter defaults to false, or not allowing full screen."_*
In this article: *http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/full_screen_mode.html*
This is what I did to make it work for me....I was having problems myself if you still need help..
open and edit the
*mod_jwmedia.php file located in the mod_jwmedia folder*
find the embed style you are using ($xmlPlayer - $youTube - $videoPlayer etc..)
This was the line I edited under $xmlPlayer =
*s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","'.$params->get("fullscreen").'");*
CHANGE IT SO IT READS
*s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); *
that worked for me....
If you have an object tag without an embed, you can add this parameter into your object tag to enable fullscreen:
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" />
It seems to be a Flash 9 problem. After updating from version 9,0,45,0 to 10,0,42,34 it worked.
I don't think it's a Flash issue. If I go to the demo / configurator page on the Longtail site, their fullscreen button works fine, but it doesn't work on my site.
Anybody know what needs to be done to get it to work?
I tried the allowfullscreen flashvar but my understanding is that isn't a valid var anymore with the version 5 player.
@GenNS – Can you provide a link to your site where it’s not working?
Hi again,
Sorry, it was my mistake. I think we used to have it as a FlashVar whereas now it needs to be a Param.
Changed that and now it's working as intended.
Thanks!
NP! :)
See: *http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aadobe.com+fullscreen&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=*
