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• shawn.jones

  

  
  Hello, I am new to adding flash using external xml documents and swfobjects. I simply need help. if you can email me with dummy instructions on how to load this thing up I would greatly appreciate it. I looked at the embed file, help.text. and info at least 20 times and I have been unsuccessful in loading this into a simple project I’m building in Dreamweaver. I just need step by step. That would help me a lot. email me here: Shawn.greg.jones@gmail.com Thank you for helping me.

  
  #  /  posted on Jan 20, 2010
• shawn.jones

  

  
  Hello, I am new to adding flash using external xml documents and swfobjects. I simply need help. if you can email me with dummy instructions on how to load this thing up I would greatly appreciate it. I looked at the embed file, help.text. and info at least 20 times and I have been unsuccessful in loading this into a simple project I’m building in Dreamweaver. I just need step by step. That would help me a lot. email me here: Shawn.greg.jones@gmail.com Thank you for helping me.

  
  #  /  posted on Jan 20, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  Ok this is what you need to do.
  Copy the below line ino your html page anywhere.

  
  

  <embed src=‘videoPlayer.swf’ width=‘800’ height=‘500’ bgcolor=’#FFFFFF’ allowscriptaccess=‘always’ allowfullscreen=‘true’ quality=‘good’ flashvars=‘xml_path=load/load.xml’/>

  
  

  Set the width and height of the player based on your needs, note that it needs to be the same in the xml file too.

  
  

  Set the flashvars so that it points to you xml file.

  
  

  Save the file and test it.

  
  

  When you upload it to the server make sure that you upload the videoPlayer.swf and load folder too.

  
  

  If you have more questions contact me at tibi_diablo@yahoo.com

  
  #  /  posted on Jan 20, 2010
• david.fiorillo

  

  
  Hello,

  Just purchased the Ultimate XML Video Player with Playlist and Categories and i'm having trouble getting to to play in my flash site. I'm new to flash so i don't know to much but i read the help file and can't see to get the player to load. A lot of error come up why i play my SWF. In the help file they refer to a loadingGallery.fla, i don't have that i have loadplayer.fla. Are they the same?

  If anyone can help that would be great. I can be emailed at davesmacg4@cox.net.

  Thanks.

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 22, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  Yes that is the file loadplayer.fla. I apology for the confusion. I will verify the help.txt and fix the mistakes.

  
  

  You will find the code that you need to load the player plus some useful comments on the first frame.

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 22, 2010
• jini.bi

  

  
  Hi,

  
  

  I would like to know
  is it possible to hide the list of videos by default ?

  
  

  thks

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 24, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  I have a version that can do that.

  
  

  Write to me at tibi_diablo@yahoo.com and I will send it to you if you bought it of course.

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 24, 2010
• jini.bi

  

  
  it’s done !

  
  

  I sent you an email.

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 24, 2010
• jini.bi

  

  
  I disabled the autoplay in the xml,
  but when i change the playlist, the first video starts !

  
  

  How can i control this ?

  
  

  thks

  
  #  /  posted on Feb 25, 2010
• thierry.lavalle

  

  
  hi, we have a few problems:

  
  

  1-Can we control the fact that video is loaded automatically? Because this is a lot of bandwidth even if the user never started the video. Could we start the flv loading only when the visitor clicks play?

  
  

  2-video/audio hiccup on Firefox (3.5.8 and 6.0.0). Seems that even if the video is cached or on local computer, it has hiccups (ie: pauses for half a second, then continues). Any idea? tested on many computers

  
  

  thanks!

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 04, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  About the loading the first video will always load by default. I didn’t think that this is a problem this is not a bug, this is how I developed the application. I will take in consideration this issue for the next update of the player.

  
  

  About the firefox problem it must be a browser problem because I am using standard video code for this player… I will look at this when I will have some free time maybe I will figure this out.

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 05, 2010
• frussell69

  

  
  Is there a way to not have the player resize the video? I have 4:3 and 16×9 video and the 16:9 video is being squeezed into 4:3. Have I missed a config setting somewhere?

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 25, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  The video is resized based on his width and height, there is a standard resizing formula. Write me a email at tibi_diablo@yahoo.com and send me a link with what you have maybe I can find a solution to help you…

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 25, 2010
• olanexhari

  

  
  Hi, I have a question… can i embed code of movies from other sites like veoh or megaupload in this player?

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 25, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  I don’t know what to answer to that:)

  
  #  /  posted on Mar 25, 2010
• jlchicote

  

  
  Can I set change the colors of the player, ej bg into white, text into black ect?

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  Yes this is possible if you change the colors inside the .fla file it is not possible in the configuration xml file.

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• jlchicote

  

  
  Hi,

  
  

  I´m working in a iweb project. I have inserted the video player whith this html code:

  
  

  <iframe src=
  “file:///Users/admin/desktop/WEB JL/videoplayer/videoPlayer.swf”
  style=“width:800px; height:500px;
  border-width:0px;
  border-color:#990033;
  border-style:solid;”
  scrolling=“auto” >
  </iframe>

  
  

  The player works in my web but the full screen doesnt work… I´m not a expert. Can you help me?

  
  

  Regards

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  I think you need to add the allowFullScreen parameter but I have no idea how I am not a html expert either. I think is best to google this stuff and see how to enable the full screen option in a iframe.

  
  

  Try adding this, this is how is done with a simple embed object.

  
  allowfullscreen=‘true’
  

  I am not sure if this will work!

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• jlchicote

  

  
  This is my code now:

  
  

  <iframe src=
  “file:///Users/admin/desktop/WEB JL/videoplayer/videoPlayer.swf”
  style=“width:800px; height:500px;
  border-width:0px;
  border-color:#990033;
  border-style:solid;”
  scrolling=“auto” >
  allowfullscreen=‘true’
  </iframe>

  
  

  Doesnt work… any idea?

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  If the video player can’t go full screen it means that it is disabled in the embed code or you don’t have the correct parameter passed in there. I would like to do more for you but I am a flash developer, I have 1% html experience:)

  
  #  /  posted on May 03, 2010
• jlchicote

  

  
  Hi,

  
  

  The player makes a audio fade in the begining of the movies. It is posible no fade in?

  
  

  Thanks.

  
  #  /  posted on May 09, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  That is not possible.

  
  #  /  posted on May 09, 2010
• guayalex

  

  
  Hi there, I love your player I bought a while ago. It’s just that until know it works perfectly offline but doesn’t show up online (Safarie anf Firefox on OS X 10.6) I used the following code to embed it:

  
  

  <object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=“http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0” height=“375” width=“600”> <param name=“movie” value=“loadPlayer.swf” /> <param name=“bgcolor” value=”#000000” /> <param name=“quality” value=“best” /> <param name=“play” value=“true” /> <embed height=“375” pluginspage=“http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” src=“loadPlayer.swf” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“600” allowFullScreen=“true” quality=“best” play=“true”></embed> </object></div>

  
  

  offline it works online not. Online nothing shows up, not even the player (My movie file is named correct all written with little letters and without any special characters)

  
  

  could you pleas help me?

  
  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  Hi.

  
  

  I would love to help you is just that I don’t have html or JS skills. Try google this stuff, this is not about my player this is about the embedding code or some browser bugs that you need to figure it out.

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• guayalex

  

  
  Thanks for answering so quick 1st of all.

  
  

  What I don’t understand is that even if I just copy your exact file structure (including your source code) to my server it doesn’t work. On your page and offline it works but not on my server. There I only get the message

  
  

  “You need to upgrade your Flash Player This is replaced by the Flash content. Place your alternate content here and users without the Flash plugin or with Javascript turned off will see this. Content here allows you to leave out noscript tags. Include a link to bypass the detection if you wish.”

  
  

  though the plug-ins (latest flash) is installed and java script turned on. The same massage on firefox and safari. I seem to miss some REALLY basic stuff here !??

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  IF you see that either you didn’t uploaded the swf file or you have some error in the embed code.

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• guayalex

  

  
  That’s exactly what bugs me. I’m using your exact code (your site) which works perfectly offline and the file is up. To be sure I uploaded the exact copy of the whole bunch which works offline. I never had problems with embeding any other flash players really

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• FWDesign

  

  
  Have you uploaded the .swf file and .js file?

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010
• guayalex

  

  
  yes the swfobject.js and the loadplayer.swf as well as the videoplayer.swf (all the files so to say)

  
  #  /  posted on May 18, 2010