I am using a licensed version of the player. My player is called player-licensed-viral.swf. I want to use the Viral-2 plugin but when I add the following code, nothing changes. Am I doing something wrong?
so.addVariable('plugins', 'viral-2');
so.addVariable('viral.callout', 'always');
Thanks but I see that you have viral.callout set to always and yet the only time I see a sharing function is when the video is paused. I thought that if this is set to always, the user should "always" see a share button or arrow or something to indicate that sharing is available whether or not they pause the video.
Who knows what always means?
It's supposed to mean this:
Flashvar: viral.callout = none | mouse | always
This flashvar is used to specify when the Viral callout appears. The callout is a small arrow icon that indicates the presence of additional options. The values determine behavior as follows:
none - callout never appears
mouse - callout appears on mouseover
always - callout always appears
However, it doesn't appear to be working.
Callout was removed in the newest version of the Viral plugin (viral-2) since there is now a menu button.
It should still work for viral-1.
Why would you remove it when you could just disable it? The "callout appears on mouseover" method is a much more effective callout than the inconspicuous "menu" button in the bottom bar. It would be great if you could add it back in and let the developer choose which method they want to implement.
is there a way to change the "menu" button in viral-2 to read "embed" or "share"? "menu" isn't descriptive enough.
thanks!
@user - you would need to modify the source of the plugin to do this. If you have a license for viral, please contact us at sales [at] longtailvideo [dot] com with it, thanks.
great, thanks!
Np
You can see a full, working implementation of the Viral-2 plugin here: http://willswonders.myip.org:8074/Simple_Viral-2.html