How can I replace "stream not found" error with a picture

There is an onError() event the player fires when this occurs. You can use this event to present a nicer error message. How to do this is up to you: you can load() a short "error" video in the player, you can place an error message on top of the player or you can replace the entire player with a formatted error message.

Do you have a simple example of what to add to the player code to accomplish this? My player code is below. What do I add?

<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer('FlyPlayer').setup
({
'id': 'playerID',
'width': '640',
'height': '480',
'image': '../skin2/background.jpg',
'controlbar.position': 'over',
'modes':
[
{
type: 'flash',
src: '../JWPlayer58-L.swf',
config:
{
'provider': 'rtmp',
'streamer': 'rtmp://websitename.com/kris',
'file': 'idevice',
'skin': '../skin2/mute-only.swf',
'autostart': 'true'
}
},
{
type: 'html5',
config:
{
'provider': 'http',
'file': 'http://websitename.com/kris/idevice/playlist.m3u8'
}
}
]
});
</script>

You can add something like:

jwplayer('FlyPlayer').onError(function(error){
jwplayer('FlyPlayer').load("error.mp4");
});

This will load a video called "error.mp4" if an error occurs. Instead, you could also use javascript to remove the entire player and print a custom error message.

That works fine with Flash, but how about the HTML5 player?

The API works across Flash an HTML5

I changed the error code to display an image instead of an video. It works well and shows the image in a browser that shows Flash, but on iPad that uses the Html5 mode it doesn't show the image as the error message. It seems to attempt to do something when the error occurs, but it doesn't show the image that I specified. Any ideas for the code I posted above?

In HTML5, we do not support "playing" images. I think that's the issue.

It's very easy to create a video from an image with something like quicktime. Just open the image, then "select all" and "paste" a few times. You then copy the single image frame into multiple frames. Export as a small MP4 video and done.

Hi,

I also want to show an image instead of a error, can this be done within the embed code?
I dont have much code knowledge but this my code embed code if somebody can help;

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("/player/jwplayer/player.swf","mpl","960","480","9");
so.addParam("allowscriptacces","always");
so.addParam("allowfullscreen","true");
so.addParam("flashvars","skin=/player/jwplayer/skin/skin2.zip&autostart=false&dock=false&provider=http&stretching=false&");
so.write("player");
</script>

Email me , I have a work around for this - http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/contact-us

Ok, have just send mail

Ok!