Any idea why the JW Player won't recognize FLVs that have been moved to a different server (done properly via the htaccess permanent redirect i.e. redirect 301)?
We have the FLVs stored on a server with lot of space but it doesn't run PHP, and the actual JW Player is run off of our web server with PHP. Reason the PHP and different servers matters is because it is all encoded in a PHP site, but even while trying to test the redirected file via the setup wizard (http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard), it still doesn't work.
Any suggestions as to resolve the problem or reasons why JW Player won't run such redirect 301 files?
Normally, the JW Player follows redirects (301s & 302s) without any problems.
You might try testing the redirect outside of the browser using a tool like wget:
wget -S "http://www.domain.com/path/videofile.ext"The "-S" will show the headers.You can also test within the browsers using ieHTTPHeaders for Internet Explorer or Live HTTP Headers for Firefox.