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Flashvar to suppress "author" in RSS playlist

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Posted: Sun, 2008-04-06 12:37 TimB
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Jeroen,

I'm a happy (licensed) customer and have been using the player for over a year now for both audio and video. Your player rocks!

Because most of the time we need to make the player fit into a narrow space (see sidebar on dishymix.com for an example), we built a playlist generator that generates an xml playlist without the "author" field. We're now working on some new uses of the player where it would be ideal if we could (a) use the same rss feed that we deliver to iTunes and (b) sometimes allow the "author" field and sometimes suppress it. It seems like this would be a common need (well for audio at least) and there must be a flashvar for this, but I can't find it.

Is there an easy way to do this...or is this a case where we have modify some actionscript code?

Thanks in advance,

Tim B

Posted: Mon, 2008-04-07 14:17 TimB  
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Hmmm...I posted this a couple of days ago, but haven't gotten any feedback yet. I'm wondering if anyone has an opinion whether this is something that's likely to be included in the near future.

Posted: Mon, 2008-04-07 18:43 joseph  
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I am watching your thread because i have the same problem. i have a playlist with a title and creator fields.. i don't need the creator field with the numbers. i have no idea how to remove the creator field. hope an expert listens to our prayers.

Posted: Mon, 2008-04-07 19:42 AJAX  
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The best that you can do is to put a non-breaking space in the creator field. Changing the ActionScript is not practical because it requires knowledge of ActionScript and Flash programming AND you will have to change the source every time that Jeroen releases a new version of the player, which is about once per month or so.

<creator>Hold the ALT key and type 0160 on the number pad</creator>The colon still shows, but that's the best that you can do.

Posted: Mon, 2008-04-07 20:21 TimB  
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Hi Ajax - Thanks for the workaround. I agree with you. Changing the action script is not what I want to do for the very reasons you mention!

Posted: Tue, 2008-09-02 09:44 schemogroby  
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is there no easy way (via flashvar) to supress the author/creator row?
i`m using an xml playlist like this

<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
<trackList>
<track>
<title>Review by Visions of Memories</title>
<location>http://www.xxx.de/fileadmin/review/Media/2008/ril/ril08_review_vom.flv</location>
</track>
<track>
<title>Review by virtualnights.com</title>
<location>http://www.xxx.de/fileadmin/review/Media/2008/ril/ril08_virtualnights.flv</location>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

ATM you can find an example here:
http://natureone.de/index.php?id=2633

I want to get rid of the empty row (each second row) in the playlist.
i am a licensed user and it would be great to get and answer to solve this issue.

thanks in advance,
Volker

Posted: Tue, 2008-09-02 10:20 kLink  
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Seems right now, the available choices are: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Skinning_the_JW_Player or http://code.jeroenwijering.com/trac/wiki/Mediaplayer3

Posted: Wed, 2008-09-03 02:06 schemogroby  
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thanks kLink!

to be honest, i think skinning is not a decent way for me. I´m already using the player version 3.x atm and the problem occurred with an update to version 4.x. It would be great to add a feature for "styling" the playlist via flashvars.

Posted: Tue, 2009-10-13 14:52 OdotJdot  
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yea, i would like to find out how to remove the author space too.

id say the title of the video is more important than the author.

can it at least be on another line? it REALLY leaves no space for a title.

editing the fla isnt really a practical option either, i agree.

thanks..

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