External config xml does not work.
Nov. 06, 2009Wouter
Hi. When i put the flashvars in de page code it works. But when i put it in the config xml file it doesnt. Talking about the link display vars. I am using JWPlayer 4.3.132. My config xml file is named config.xml.php.
Without config xml and working:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mysite.com/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.mysite.com/player.swf","ply","520","410","9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("flashvars","file=http://www.mysite.com/media/video.flv&image=preview.jpg&skin=nacht4.swf&link=http://www.google.nl&linkfromdisplay=true&displayclick=link&linktarget=_blank");
s1.write('flashbanner');
</script>
With config xml and not working:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mysite.com/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.mysite.com/player.swf","ply","520","410","9","#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess","always");
s1.addParam("flashvars","file=http://www.mysite.com/media/video.flv&image=preview.jpg&skin=nacht4.swf");
s1.addVariable('config','http://www.mysite.com/config.xml.php');
s1.write('flashbanner');
</script>
config xml code:
<config>
<volume>50</volume>
<bufferlength>0</bufferlength>
<link>http://www.google.nl</link>
<linkfromdisplay>true</linkfromdisplay>
<displayclick>link</displayclick>
<linktarget>_blank</linktarget>
</config>
Very weird. Any suggestions?
Nov. 06, 2009hobbs
<linkfromdisplay>true</linkfromdisplay>is a v3 player flashvar, not supported by the v4 player.
See: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashVars#Behaviour
Other than that, your player code and your configuration file look OK.
You will have to post a link to your Test Page so someone can help you further. We can't guess.
Nov. 06, 2009Wouter
Huh where's my reply?? well heres the testpage again:
http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/
and the config from the test page is config.xml with this code:
<config>
<volume>50</volume>
<bufferlength>0</bufferlength>
<link>http://www.google.nl</link>
<displayclick>link</displayclick>
<linktarget>_blank</linktarget>
</config>
without the linkfromdisplay var but it still doesnt work
Nov. 06, 2009hobbs
Plays OK for me:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Testing.</title>
<script src="http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/swfobject.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="flashbanner"><a href="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">Get the Adobe Flash Player to see this video.</a></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject("http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/player.swf", "ply", "520", "410", "9.0.124", "#FFFFFF");
s1.addParam("allowscriptaccess", "always");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen", "true");
s1.addVariable("file", "http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/video.flv");
s1.addVariable("image", "http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/preview.jpg");
s1.addVariable("config", "http://www.soppermedia.com/testplayer/config.xml");
s1.write('flashbanner');
</script>
</body>
</html>
Nov. 07, 2009Wouter
Yea that does work, thats weird. The change that worked was defining the file and preview image as individual variables instead of the vars in a parameter... it means the same but somehow this made the change. Thanks.
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