When trying to change my playlist using a link, the thumbnails for the playlist items disappear, or actually are almost entirely covered in black. I've tried using another skin for the player but encountered the same problem. Is this just a bug with the player, or something with the XML file? I think i've tried almost everything else to resolve it. The example is at the link below...
Playlist Thumbs Disappear?
Posted: Wed, 2010-02-17 15:15
Benson
Posted: Fri, 2010-03-05 20:19
ramjet
There is still a major problem with the latest player and playlist thumbs (player.swf Version 5.1.854 tested in IE 7.06, FF 3.06, Opera9.24 and Chrome 2.149)
If a link to a thumbnail is incorrect in the playlist XML file (i'm using RSS)
<media:thumbnail url="http://somedomain.com/AnImageThatNoLongerExistsAtThisLocation.jpg" />
then the entry in the Player Playlist area expands across and completely covers the scrollbar, rendering it useless.
Maybe this could be quickly corrected by coding the scroll bar to be on top of the entry, but I'm sure a more thought out solution would be better.
Cheers, Murray
Posted: Sat, 2010-03-06 19:26
ramjet
Actually I just realised I posted in general chat, i'll repost above in Bug reports
@Benson -
This is a known bug in 5.0; it has been fixed in 5.1, which will be released very soon.
To test out the pre-release version of 5.1, you can grab it from http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/trunk/fl5/player.swf