Forum OpenACS Development: Embedding flash video player

http://salsablanca.com/ethno/changui-video

This is the code you need:

[[swf:changui-promo1.swf|Video of traditional cuban changüi being played in Havana Cuba|-width 320px -height 234px -quality high -wmode transparent]]

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http://salsablanca.com/ethno/casino-rueda
is using:
I did this before I asked Gustaf to add this as a wiki type.

<div id="flashcontent"> This text is replaced by the Flash movie.
</div>
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
var so = new SWFObject("/movies/Ban Rarra on Malecon.swf", "casinorueda", "359", "282", "7", "#336699");
so.addParam("quality", "high");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.addParam("salign", "t");
so.write("flashcontent");

It is using the swfObject js library, don't remember where I got it.

Hope that helps.

This helps but does not solve the issue of accessing the FLV. For that I need an SWF that takes an argument of the URL pointing to the FLV. Once I have that SWF I can add it to a page using the swfobject code.

I added a addvars parmaeter to the SWF link type. Its used like so:

[[swf:flvplayer.swf|This is the title|-addvars {file http://mysite.org/xowiki/file/some_flash_video.flv}]]

I added this to the swf render_found instproc.

if {[my exists addvars]} {
foreach {name value} [my set addvars] {
append addParams "so.addVariable('${name}','${value}');\n"
}
}

And added addvars as a parameter for the swf subclass.
I still can't see the video though so I might have missed a step. I am still working on it.

Posted by Dave Bauer on 07/27/07 03:35 PM
[[swf:flvplayer.swf|This is the title|-addvars {file http://mysite.org/xowiki/file/some_flash_video.flv%3fm%3ddownload}]]

Did not work either It got translated into some HTML entity and I could not download the FLV from the player. Any ideas?

I am using http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player

flv is notoriously bad for this as (I believe) you can't easily embed the player in the file.

Can you save the file as an swf instead. There really is not that much difference.

Here is a general site I used for settings.
http://www.squidoo.com/youtuberight/

[[js:filename.js|sometitle]] would be great. This doesnt exist. Shall I create something like that?

We could have something similar for css:

[[css:filename.css|sometitle]]

Any idea?

There must be something else wrong. concerning the error message with height: are you sure, you have no "invisible markup" (such as spans etc. introduced via cut&paste) around the "-height"?

concerning setting the value:
the line, you are highlighting is the line setting the default values. the line below this (not cited) sets the provided values.

the height is passed to "new SWFObject(...,$height,...)". You should check the generated HTML source, whether it is inserted correctly at that place. btw, not every swf file honors the width and height parameters.

hope this helps.

in the current head version, the error message will be easier to spot.