Flow Plugin - Must have !

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

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 !

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 :)

 
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¢

I'd love to be able to add a header so that above my thumbnails for the coverflow I can put 'Related Videos' or something similar. Is this possible?

I do not believe this is possible.

I just purchased v5.0 and downloaded the new updated version... and got really mad. The flow plugin doesn't know how to handle

so.addVariable('item', '5');

anymore. It only shows the first one... Can somebody help me fix this ?

Does the the item flashvar work with flow/4.6?

Yes, the old 4.x version worked. After upgrade, it doesn't work anymore.

Got it, will contact the developer, thanks.

I don't think the problem is from flow plugin's side, since it works for version 5.0.707, as you can see on wessite's site (http://wessite.com/labs/flowplugin).
The problem appeared for me on player version 5.0.573, so please LongTail, do something about it.

... I meant version 5.0.753, not 573...

Hi, wessite

Sorry for my poor English.

How can I put two or more videos in one page?

or

How can I play two or more videos in one directory only use one web page?

Thank you.

Thanks Thruba for letting us know it's a problem with JW Player. I guess we will wait for an update. Maybe in 5.1 version ?

Marry Christmas everyone !

Here is how to make multiple players on a page:

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

<div class="ltas-ad" id="hi"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','mp1','500','400','9');
s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s1.addParam('wmode','transparent');
s1.addVariable('file','video.flv');
s1.write('hi');
</script>

<div class="ltas-ad" id="hi2"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s2 = new SWFObject('player.swf','mp2','500','400','9');
s2.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s2.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s2.addParam('wmode','transparent');
s2.addVariable('file','bunny.flv');
s2.write('hi2');
</script>

<div class="ltas-ad" id="hi3"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s3 = new SWFObject('player.swf','mp3','500','400','9');
s3.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s3.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s3.addParam('wmode','transparent');
s3.addVariable('file','video.flv');
s3.write('hi3');
</script>

<div class="ltas-ad" id="hi4"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s4 = new SWFObject('player.swf','mp4','500','400','9');
s4.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s4.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s4.addParam('wmode','transparent');
s4.addVariable('file','bunny.flv');
s4.write('hi4');
</script>

<div class="ltas-ad" id="hi5"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s5 = new SWFObject('player.swf','mp5','500','400','9');
s5.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s5.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s5.addParam('wmode','transparent');
s5.addVariable('file','bunny.flv');
s5.write('hi5');
</script>

Ethan, are you sure you didn't missposted ? I mean, the only problem we got at the end was related to "so.addVariable('item', '5');" and not to "multiple players on page" :D

We still hope for an update that would fix the "item" variable. Thank you !

MonkY,

Sorry! :D I totally misread your post, lol!

-Ethan