Flow Plugin - Must have !

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Oct. 20, 2009MonkY

Hi !

First, let me congratulate you for adding (finnally) the Flow plugin ! It's great !
Second, it really needs some tweaks and features, otherwise nobody will actually use it. So, here are things really needed:

1. For start, it should be displayed as a "circle". Displaying the Flow with a playlist will leave the first half of the screen empty, and that looks ugly.

2. Then, it would be great if Flow would have some auto rotate. This would animate the Flow and would simply rotate through the playlist, moving to next item in playlist in x secconds.

3. Also, a great feature when Flow is used at bottom, above, etc... the main player window to load and display the picture for what item is clicked or displayed in rotation. Now it only displayes the first image when loading a movie playlist.

4. Duration for the movies must be shown in the Flow. For now it only shows title and description.

If all of the above will be added, i guarantee almost every site will use the Flow on the mainpage to display the headlines, news, etc.

Thank you in advance !

Oct. 21, 2009wessite

Hi MonkY,


1. you can easily fill the left half with covers if you set the "item" flashvar of the JW player. take a look at the first example of this page: http://wessite.com/labs/flowplugin

but I think it's a good idea, I'll see what I can do in next release.

2. this is definitely going to be added in next release ; )

3. I don't think this feature is really necessary, and it would have an impact on the performance of the plugin, the animation would be less smoother if it would also change the preview image in the display.

4. you can easily add the duration in the title or description tag of the playlist file...


Thanks for the feedback! Some of the features will be added for sure if there is enough interest in the plugin.

For full reference of flashvars and a few examples take a look at: http://wessite.com/labs/flowplugin

If you have more good ideas don't hesitate to add them in this thread, I would love to hear them!

Kind regards,
wessite

Oct. 21, 2009MonkY

Hi wessite !

Thanks for your answers ! But for (1) i've tried adding so.addVariable('flow.item', '3'); but it doesn't work for me. It's still showing the first item (read from .xml).

(2) Great to hear that ! It would be lovely.

(3) Just make it optional. For headlines on front pages of websites, it would really make a difference (sometimes you can't see the real picture just from the thumbnail)

(4) Yes, i know that's possible, but when you have an .xml with a few hundreds (maybe thousands) movies in playlist... adding time to each of them could be painfull.

P.S. It was a great coverflow example in here: http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/image-flow_flvmediaplayer4_swfobject2.htm but unfortunatelly the "additional example setups" page doesn't work anymore (says something like:

Hjemmesiden er lukket
Den side, du har forsøgt at komme ind på, er lukket.

Den 1. oktober 2009 lukkede TDC den hjemmesideservice, som bredbåndskunder hos TDC, YouSee og Dansk Kabel TV tidligere har haft adgang til som en del af deres bredbåndsabonnement.

Læs mere om hjemmesidelukningen."

Thank you for your great support ! FLV Players is the main feature of my website !

Oct. 21, 2009MonkY

Later edit: i've discovered why it doesn't work with "so.addVariable('flow.item', '3');". It should be "so.addVariable('item', '3');". But unfortunatelly this will not show the last added video... So i guess the circle mode (or neverending loop) would be the good sollution for this

Oct. 21, 2009hobbs

 
My comments:

1) regular player flashvar NOT a plugin flashvar so.addVariable('item', '3');
2) no comment

3) I agree with wessite

4) nobody would ever make a playlist with more than 5~10 items manually. That's what playlist generators are for. The data is pulled from a database. Adding duration, or anything else, would be jsut a small tweak int he code. Once a playlist gets over 40~50 items it should be broken up into separate lists based on categories, genre, or some other appropriate criteria.

The coverflow example in JavaScript worked, but was slow and not smooth. wessite's plugin is MUCH better!

just my 2¢

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