Hello everyone,
I'm experiencing few problems with JW Player since months, and I don't know how to solve them.
The main idea is that I have no FLV status bars - I mean buffering status bar - on the player.
I made some tests :
- On that configuration page :
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=1
There is a link to that video : http://content.longtailvideo.com/videos/flvplayer.flv
If I click on "Play" on the Longtailvideo.com Setup Wizard page, it works correctly, I see the video status bar while it's loading (I think this is a progressive download technique, as I've read on that board).
- If I use the same configuration on my server (same player, same settings...), but with a link to the video http://content.longtailvideo.com/videos/flvplayer.flv
it will works correctly too. I can see the video buffer status bar while it's loading... Great ! But that's just a beginning...
- Now, say that I just change the URL on my website (with flashvars), and I'd like to use one of my videos. Let's say that one :
http://video.digitalgames.fr/pokemonfr/video_coaa2.flv
Oooow, too bad, the video works BUT I can't see the video buffer status bar while it's loading.
It does exactly the same thing (no status bar...) on the http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-setup-wizard?example=1 page when I change the video URL.
- Ok, the last test. I've read on that board that the reason could be a lack of META tags on my video. So if the video with the pretty Blonde girl works on the Longtailvideo.com server, maybe that's because there is those META tags... So I uploaded that video (flvplayer.flv) to my server, to see if it could work. Nope ! No buffer status bar too.
So, my conclusion is that I have something missing on my server. If the video works with the loading status bar if I link to the longtailvideo.com Blonde FLV, why my videos or the same video is not working with that precious loading status bar on my server ?
Is there a setting missing ? Maybe on Apache configuration ? (httpd.conf)...
Notice : I have a full access to my dedicated server, so I can change core settings.
Thank you if you can help me, you'll save my day!
Merci par avance et à très bientôt ! :-)
Matthieu from Paris.
Your video plays fine for me. It has sufficient metadata to display the duration in the JW FLV Player.
Magic: FLVVersion: 1
Has audio: yes
Has video: yes
Offset: 9
--- Tag #1 at 0xD (13) ---
Tag type: Meta
Body length: 244
Timestamp: 0
* Metadata event name: onMetaData
* Metadata contents: {
'duration' => 111.945000
'width' => 512.000000
'height' => 384.000000
'videodatarate' => 0.000000
'framerate' => 29.970091
'videocodecid' => 2.000000
'audiosamplerate' => 44100.000000
'audiosamplesize' => 16.000000
'stereo' => true
'audiocodecid' => 2.000000
'filesize' => 15907821.000000
}
Previous tag size: 255
You should change the Content-Type header to video/x-flv
wget -S "http://video.digitalgames.fr/pokemonfr/video_coaa2.flvSYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
syswgetrc = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
--2009-09-25 15:51:04-- http://video.digitalgames.fr/pokemonfr/video_coaa2.flv
Resolving video.digitalgames.fr... 91.121.112.110
Connecting to video.digitalgames.fr|91.121.112.110|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:51:55 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Last-Modified: Sun, 10 May 2009 10:10:08 GMT
ETag: "4c88003-f2bbed-4698c10fa0000"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 15907821
Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
<strong>Content-Type: text/plain</strong>
Length: 15907821 (15M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `video_coaa2.flv'
100%[======================================>] 15907821 75.8K/s in 3m 5s
2009-09-25 15:54:10 (83.8 KB/s) - `video_coaa2.flv' saved [15907821/15907821]