Just downloaded 5.2 and purchased license. Video needs to download 100% before playing!

Are you using Flash 10.1?

This is actually a bug with the player / Flash 10.1

If you download to 10.0.45, it will fix the issues.

The developers are investigating the bug.

Note, JW Player 5.0.753 does not seem to have this bug with Flash 10.1, but 5.1 and 5.2 appear to be affected by it.

Thank you for the response Ethan, I will give it a shot. I am trying to get it to work with phpmotion yet it really isn't going to well. If I can get it to work I will attempt to downgrade to a different version.

Ethan, another quick question. I gave a coder access to my scripts to update something. (paid job) Can I be sure that my licensed player will not work on someone else's website? For some reason I'm paranoid he will jack the licensed swf file.

Cheers

Hi Brian,

Let me know what you find with the downgrade. And unfortunately there is no way to get around someone stealing the swf, but why would someone doing paid work for you do that?

Best,
-Ethan

The downgrade works very well, although the playback bar doesn't disappear, which is a really nice feature of the later versions. Could it be the disappearing bar that is affecting this?

As far as the SWF, I don't know why I am worried, just seems like it could happen.

Can you please show me where you are running the player where it is having the playback bar issue?

http://www.discgolfvids.com - right now I have 5.0 up there though.

Another question lol (I apologize, I'm just trying to figure all of this out)

I uploaded a 720x480 vid, stretching is set to uniform. Instead of creating the black bars on the top and bottom of the vid, it creates them on the sides and makes it as if its a 4:3 video.

Is there anyway to make the black bars on top of the video? My container size is 640x360, but still wouldn't think it would compress it like that on the sides. Any ways around this?

Take care

The playback bar appears just fine here - http://discgolfvids.com/videos/3/open-test

Regarding the black bars, you would have the mess with the width/height/stretching flashvar of the player in order to do this.

The one you looked at was from an flv format already sized, downloaded from YT.

I guess I'm going to just have to let phpmotion convert the files all to 16:9 format and to that specific size, I can't seem to get both aspect ratios to work properly. (If the files are not converted, any file bigger than the player size don't seem to view properly. Everything besides uniform either distorts it or cuts parts of picture out.

Thankyou for your help though, not really sure where I'll go from here lol.

What I meant to say is, if the video is larger than the player size, it doesn't view properly with uniform, and the others either distort way to much or cut parts of the video out.

Np.

There are a few different options - stretching (uniform): Defines how to resize images in the display. Can be none (no stretching), exactfit (disproportionate), uniform (stretch with black borders) or fill (uniform, but completely fill the display).

But is there a way to get the black bars to show up on the top and bottom, rather then on just the sides?

Also, how do i get the video bar to disappear? I've searched and have added the proper flashvars but nothing seems to be working.

I assume you mean controlbar by video bar, and that would be setting the controlbar flashvar to none. To make the black bars show on the top at bottom, the best way I would think of doing this would be to set the stretching flashvar to none, and then simply make the player the exact size of your video, and then add to the height so there are black bars on the top at bottom.

I'm sorry I wasn't more clear. I've seen people that have the bar fading away after the video plays for a while. Upon hovering over the video again, the bar reappears. It's a default thing with 5.1 and 5.2

Also, about the black bars. The main issue I have is that it is not all my videos. Videos will be uploaded from a bunch of different people, and probably with a bunch of different sizes.

I am also using the drelated plugin, I've been trying to search the forums about changing the width of the drelated overlay and possibly the left and right tabs. (The forum search sometimes works, other times it comes up with no results btw) I got so far as to download the source, but my website only has the player.swf, there's nothing in the skins folder. Am I able to change the width of drelated overlay?

Thankyou for your time.

@BrianAgain - The fading away control bar is not the default behavior. Setting the conrolbar flashvar to over will demonstrate this behavior. The default is bottom, which will not fade. It is not possible to change the width of D-Related, I believe. You can download the D-Related Source, with the skin, from here - http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/documentation/54/drelated.zip

Hi again Ethan, I see many websites using D-Related with different video sizes. Do you know what width I have to use in order for it to fit?

I'm not quite sure what to do with the source...is there anyway I can keep the tab from sticking out into the video?

An example of my problem can be seen here: http://www.discgolfvids.com/videos/53/ace-run-at-sergeant-means-park

@BrianAgain - In the source there is a file called grayskin.swf, you need to use this file as the drelated.dskin flashvar, to fix the issue. Example - http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/plugins/54/D-Related?q=

Thankyou for all your help Ethan, I've figured it out. ;) Take care of yourself.

Great, np! :)

Hi Ethan, I hope you don't mind me posting in this thread again. If so I apologize from the get go. I am using d-related and have the bar set to float so it fades. So basically what happens is that if people pause it, you can't un-pause it unless you go to full screen. (The D-related blocks the play bar)

I figured I would be able to just add a play button to the d-related skin, except I can't seem to find what code to use on the button to start the video again. I thought you might be able to point me in the right direction.

Take care,

Brian

@BrianAgain - The Skin Source is available here - http://www.longtailvideo.com/addons/plugins/54/D-Related?q=, just click "Setup Instructions" to get it. Note - this is a 3rd party plugin, so we don't provide support for skinning it.