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javascript flashvar question with JW Player

I don't know if I'll be able to get this answer here, but I'm trying to get the JW Player to toggle between high and low quality settings. Here is my code: <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('/lessons/videos/player.swf','mpl','610','480','9'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','a...

JW Player playlist only loads randomly in IE, works fine in FF every time

The playlist loads every time in FF but only the first time in IE (6-8), after that only randomly. If I alert the error that's thrown I get "TypeError: playerReady is undefined". My code looks good and obviously works since FF displays the playlist perfectly. I've got no idea how to solve this. Anyone? <script type='text/javascript'> ...

Help! Validation issue with slideshow?

Hi I'm trying to validate my website but it complains about my slideshow Is this because its using html? Should I ignore it? validator link <embed src="http://artygirl.co.uk/imagerotator/imagerotator.swf" width="632px" height="308px" flashvars="file=http://artygirl.co.uk/imagerotator/rotator.xml&amp;transition=blocks&amp;shownavigatio...

Need help to create playlist from DB for JW Player

I'm thinking of using JW Player to show some videos. Currently I'm using this test XML file which works great. But now I need to change this with data from a database. First I thought I could output the HTML playlist directly: <div class="clearfix" id="playlist"> <div class="jw_playlist_playlist"> <div class="jw_playlist_it...

Video not playing in IE in hidden div using JW Player, SWFObject and FancyZoom

Hi all, I have a video that is meant to start playing when a user clicks on an image and said image opens a FancyZoom overlay. It works fine in every browser except IEs. If I place the video in a div that is not hidden (display:none actually), the video starts as expected. So it seems there is a problem with either Flash, JW Player, SWF...

JWPlayer plays videos at 3x speed on the first run, then works fine in subsequent runs on the same pageload.

Go here: http://nano.materials.drexel.edu/research/videolibrary For some bizarre reason, the videos will play at 3x speed on the first run through, but then will play at normal speed each subsequent play. This doesn't happen all the time, and it's not always the same video(s) that do it. I'm utterly baffled. I've reconverted the video...

How to display HTML after video play finishes?

Hello people, I am new here. I would like to know how can I display HTML code after a video is finished playing. I am using FlowPlayer (http://www.flowplayer.org) . I have tried to achieve this using JW Flash Player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/), but was unable figure out anything. Also, let me know if it's po...

Auto resize in JW Player

Hello people, Is there any way we can make the JW Player auto resizable when it loads? Like, for instance, if the movie file is smaller in dimensions than the player,then there is black background it. I want the movie to spread all over the black color. Thanks in advance. ...

JW Player: cross-browser "display:none" player behavior

Is there a simple, upfront method to have FF and IE treat hidden JW Players the same? I am placing different instances of the player dynamically in jQuery generated tabs. In effect, switching tabs hides the parent div of each player. In FireFox, the tab switch and accompanying "display" change stops the player. This doesn't happen in IE...

Multiple JWPlayers on Wordpress page

I have a Wordpress site that has a large photo slider for the header. Within that slider, I have buttons to launch videos corresponding to the current image. These are being set by custom tags within multiple posts. All the data is being passed correctly (based off of looking at the source code), however, I can only get 1 video to pla...

How to add clickable logo on the flash web player?

Hi All, I have a code like this <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.clipul.com/play/swfobject.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; <div id="player">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('http://montsmile.com/jwplayer/player.swf','mpl','480','380','8'); so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','a...

JW Player - How can I add an event listener for fullscreen toggling?

I'm using JW Player 4.5 on my site and I need to add an event listener for when fullscreen is toggled. The reason for this is to switch between a low-def version and high-def version. The default video will be the low-def version and when they switch to a fullscreen display, it will change to the high-def version. According to http://d...

How To Extract .flv Stream from JW Player 5.1?

The problem is I've a slow internet connection, and the video doesn't buffer like in YouTube. Therefore I was wondering weather I can extract the url of the .flv file which is being streamed in JW Player and directly download it. Doing some preliminary research, I've found the following info: Main Video URL: http://ijf10.ilcannocchiale...

JWPlayer black screen on initial playback

I have JWPlayer on a clients' site. The client complains that sometimes on initial load, the jwplayer will autostart playback as intended but with a black screen. Sound is alright, and the progress indicator in the transport is moving. No matter what I do, I can't recreate the error on my machine. I'm using version 5 of JWPlayer. Her...

Using jQuery to create a video switcher

I've got a design for a video page which has a main video panel which will load the FLV file into JWPlayer when a thumbnail image is clicked. I think what I'm looking for is a partial page refresh? What is the best way to achieve this effect? This is the script I am using to display the video panel: <script type='text/javascript'> ...

Manipulating jQuery to retrieve the onclick function of an item which lies directly below the current focus with the same parent

First off, I want to thank you for looking into my question as I really do appreciate your time. I've built a list of items using php by having a foreach loop cycle through an associative array printing the array data as parameters of an onclick function call and gives each item it cycles through an ID of $thecount. All items retrieved ...

How to load new movie with preserved position from previous movie?

Hi, I am serving movie via JW player. I need to provide functionality to change quality of the movie. Each quality has different url. I need a javascript that loads new movie and moves to last position within clip. Example: User is watching a movie in low quality (http://test.com/play?id=1&amp;qual=low) and is currently at position 00:30...

Loading an FLV in Facebox with jQuery for IE7 and IE8

It goes almost without saying, this works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. IE (any version) being the problem. Objective: I am trying to load JWplayer which loads an FLV from S3 in a Facebox popup. jQuery(document).ready(function($) { $('a[rel*=facebox]').facebox() }) HTML (haml): %li#videoGirl = link_to 'What is HQcha...

Making Facebox wait until FLV player has loaded.

Not entirely sure how to do this, but I noticed that Facebox works perfectly, but when I use it to load a movie, the FLV Player, JWplayer isn't fully loaded yet, and errors out. So I want to load JWplayer ( the FLV player ), before Facebox. Facebox gives this as their embed code. And they explain that you can pass an argument in it as w...

Resize a Flash object via jQuery onload of page

Hi. I'm using the HTML5 JW Player. It sizes the HTML5 video correctly, but shrinks the Flash fallback player; here's an example page: Test Page If you view that page in IE, you'll notice that on panel 5, the video is smaller than the space it's supposed to occupy. On Firefox, it works fine because it's using the OGG video in its HTML5 v...