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@xepper I am happy you got it the way you wanted it. I don’t understand what exactly you need, but if you set autoResize value=“true” in the settings.xml file and you specify the playerWidth and the playerHeight in that same settings.xml file, you should have it just the size you want it.
I’m building a free Cinema 4D training resource
and wonder if this file as an swf would be easy enough to load in as a movie clip.
Check the site, you’ll see what I’m talking about
http://www.thec4dvault.com/
Needs to be on that main interface and running as playlist.
Also, will contain 100’s of videos, can this interface of yours handle this much video?
Do you have a trial version of Player III? I’ve been using the JW player and its good but it uses the thumbnail as the movie preview image and has no ability to configure otherwise. Does Player III use the first frame of the movie as the preview? There are a couple of other things I need to determine before I buy such as compatibility with the .mov file I am generating.
Good Day,
@InTheCity Integrating the player into a fla site will not raise any problem. Make sure you have all the files you receive in the deploy folder placed in the same directory where your site’s swf is.
Step1: Open your fla and create an empty movie clip on the stage. Name its instance.
Step2: Use loadMovie() to load the player’s swf with its settings into the movieclip you created.
Let me know if you have problems. As long as your server can handle the videos, the player will play them.
@stmulligan You can use any image you choose – any picture or snapshot from the video. Just write its path in the settings file. Same goes for the thumbs. It can play mov files with no problem, as long as they are H.264 encoded
@vanrugge I got the link.
Hello:
Looking to buy the player III, but I have a question. Is the Youtube in front of the video embedded to it?
I mean will I have it in my videos?
Thanks
Gus
I’ve deployed the player on my site with no changes to the deplay code. The main video however does not play when the play button is hit. Instead it tries and tries to load (no timeout or error detected). All the Youtube videos play and if you choose the Ratatouille clip from the list, it loads and plays.
http://www.powerchalk.com/vidplayer3/videoPlayer.html
The Ratatouille video is there and correctly named in the XML. I can type the full path and it plays with Quicktime.
What is causing the initial config to freeze?
Also, I intend to deliver dynamic XML files to the player. Can I split the settings and the content into two xml files? It’s a waste to generate the settings repeatedly.
Thx,
CH
@stmulligan Please set your autoload option to true in your settings.xml file
@promedical If you are talking about the YouTube logo, it appears Only for YouTube videos. Any other video, either on your server or any place that is not YouTube – will not have the YouTube logo.
Setting autoLoad=true fixes the freeze up. Is this not a bug? Autoload or not, when someone hits the play button, the clip should load.
I see you’ve removed my comment on the H.264 clips. I am rendering clips for the iPhone and bought this control hoping to play those clips on my web page but thay also freeze up. The load cycle just spins and the control offers no warnings or messages.
http://www.powerchalk.com/playVideo.php?vid=350
The full path to the iPhone movie referenced by this page is:
http://www.powerchalk.com/uploads/29_0b9J0tT7V901f4fyq0cD.mov
Can I separate the settings and content of the XML file? I want to supply the control with dynamic lists but the player settings, once defined, are static. They don’t belong together. Same for staf settings.
I really like this player. It’s very well done and easy enough that I can even set it up.
However, there are three things that I need to make it perfect…
1) HTTP Streaming – Is there a way to make it jump ahead in the video even if the video has not downloaded that far? Similar to the way YouTube does.
2) Move playlist to the left side. Does anyone know how to do this? I don’t know Flash so when I open the FLA file in Flash8 it’s just a white box.
3) Playlist scroll bar is very tiny. If there is a way to add a bigger scroller so that people know they pull down to see more videos.
And that’s it. Thanks again really cool player.
Cheers,
Allen
Ok, maybe just one more thing…
I really like the way the playlist menu works on your Video Player II. Where you just use your mouse and it moves the playlist. Would that be possible to add? I’m willing to pay for the alterations I mentioned here and below.
http://www.flashcomponents.net/component/flash_flv_h_264_video_player_ii/samples.html
Cheers,
Allen
Great application!
I just have one problem, there is extra spacing after all lower case w’s. Has anyone noticed this? Is there a fix?
Also is it possible for the description text for the selected movie and the playlist to be different?
Thanks
@stmulligan We are not the site admins, we cannot remove or modify any comments, not even our own. I see that the link with play video works perfectly. I do not understand what you want to do with the xml file, but I can tell you that the settings for the player are loaded once, and the settings for each movie are parsed every time you change the video that is playing. So if the settings file changes during playback (either manually or automatically), you’ll find yourself in the following situation: initially you had certain videos loaded in the playlist, each with its thumb and description. Supposing you click on one of them and playback begins. During playback, the settings.xml file changes (the movies list changes). Now when you click on, let’s say the second movie in the playlist (remember you see the title, thumb and description of the old playlist), it will start playing the NEW second movie in the settings .xml
@awilbanks 1)No. However, we are analyzing the possibility by integrating a plugin another user suggested.
2) I answered you on private how you can switch the playlist on the other side. If you did not manage, please let me know.
3)That is simpler than changing the playlist position. Open the fla and increase the dimension of the scroll button. Save and recompile.
Yes, we can make the mouse scrolling for III as well.
@actsofgodfrey If you use the same font, the w can’t slide. Can you provide a link using the private messaging? No, the playlist uses the first characters of the description.
@awilbanks Allen, if you think I can help you more than this, please let me know.
The blog prgram has a bug in it. Every so often it will not post a message. It’s done it twice to me.
If you look below you will see that it even done this to FlashXpert himself. He has a post were his name shows but no comment.
@ikester7579 Yes, I save my comments before I click on the “add comment” button.
Still no answer on the H264.mov incompatibility. The reason I bought this control was to render a single file and play it on the web and iPhone. So far, none of the files can be played by PIII. Here’s an example:
http://www.powerchalk.com/uploads/29_0b9J0tT7V901f4fyq0cD.mov
Can you provide the specs of the required files or tell me why mine do not play in PIII?
The media players in the Flash dev environment stop on frame 1 if autoplay is off. They don’t require a thumbnail to show before or after play. Can PIII do this?
I render thumbnails but they are sized to the playlist and small lists on my site. I don’t want to render large thumbnails but would like the player to simply show frame 1 while it waits to play.
VERY FRUSTRATING!!! No support for a week. I’ve tried direct to FlashXpert and on this board. For me:
I can’t recommend buying (like I did) because it’s very lightly supported. Instead try www.longtailvideo.com which is what I switched to. Can I get my money back fo r this one?
@stmulligan -
You said no support for a week but I see that you wrote on 22th.
Anyway, last week was Easter for orthodox but I think this is not your problem.
Definitely you are doing something wrong! The player is working very well and it's doing what it says!
"This control can’t load dynamic XML, just static XML files." - Please be more specific! You can set from html the path for what file to load. The path can be to a php file that generates the xml.
"Won’t play H.264 .mov files that play well on the iPhone" - This problem may appear because on of the reasons:
- your video is not H264 encoded
- your video has the metadata at the end of the file.
I'm downloading the file and I'll send you a PM to let you know the problem.
"Won’t park on frame 1 if set to autoload=true and autoplay=false..." These features are working well! I can't know what you are doing wrong if you don't provide a link where to look at.
So... I think your comments are not appropriate to this product! Like I said the player is working very well and it's doing what it says and if you want to make publicity to other players I think you are at the wrong place.
The H264.mov file issue was posted on the April 15. Page through the comments and you’ll see it is still there. It was never addressed. I also emailed directly to FlashXpert from the home page.
The full path to the iPhone movie referenced by this page is:
http://www.powerchalk.com/uploads/29_0b9J0tT7V901f4fyq0cD.mov
The file is still there, H264 encoded and runs on on iPhone.
The XML that my PHP generates is at:
http://www.powerchalk.com/videos2xml3.php?uid=288&video_id=350
A page that demonstrates the attempt to use generated XML is:
http://www.powerchalk.com/playVideo.php?vid=493
The player just locks up black.
I’ll gladly retract my negative comments but for the moment, this control doesn’t do any of the things it promised.
HI great flash player
streaming H264 really well!
can you tell me how I can add a line break in the CDATA xml as my description text gets cut off
cheers
mike
Slick looking flash player. Well done.
After looking at all of the comments, my one question before I purchase is whether or not it has the ability to have clickable (to an advertisers site for example) prerolls that can be set for each video? Do you know of anyone that has integrated something like this or are you planning on adding it at some point?
