hi,
I was looking around today and found this player at http://www.mac-dev.net/blog/download-flash-video-player-plugin-for-wordpress/
It's plugin-ized JW FLV Media Player, for easier integration and posting.
Does anyone use it? Do you think this is good in the long run? Or what do experienced users suggest?
Actually, the JW_FLV player is included in vPIP. Or maybe I should say - can be included.
Tonight, I actually realized that I had 4 players beyond the standard player in vPIP. Jeroen, Vanilla, JW_FLV, and Flowplayer. You can use any of those but you have to write some code to do it. I don't know exactly what the code is, but I'll look around and see if I can make all of them work. I use the Flowplayer, so I've got that stuff. BTW - does anybody know the differences in these players?
I'm testing this out now. It makes using the JW Media Player easy. It has a config page were you can set defaults though many of those you'll want to change on a post-by-post basis. So what you have to do is just add the Flashvar parameters to the line of code you put in your post. Pretty easy once you decide what ones you want.
What else is nice is that it makes it easy to play an mp4 file and set a flv file as a fallback so that people with an older version of the plugin will see that instead. I just tested that out with v8 of the flash plugin and it works perfectly - a completely seamless experience.
I have this plugin installed but I disabled it when I put in vPIP thinking it was superfluous.
Can you give the url of your test Verdi?
joly
I'm running it on the posts on the front page of http://michaelverdi.com
It works great but:
1. The embed parameters show up before your post in the RSS feed
2. For some reason using a flv fallback makes the flv file show up as the enclosure when you run the feed through feedburner. The wordpress rss feed has the mp4 first. :\
And then Video archive plugin has issues with the plugin
I just switched my posts back to vPIP. The good news is that I learned about the "fallback" flash vars for the JW Media Player. If you add fallback=URLtoFLVfile in the flash vars section and the viewer doesn't have a Flash plugin capable of playing H.264 video it will fall back to the specified flv file. This is cool trick to keep people from missing your videos until they all get their flash plugins updated.
I found another Flash plugin that I'd like to test this summer, but I may not get to it, so I'm posting it here in case anyone else has time: Simple Flash Video Plugin - http://www.simplethoughtproductions.com/sfv-plugin/
It has support for ALL the JW FLV Player variables and apparently you can override them on a per-post basis. I'm looking forward to learning more about it.
If anyone has any questions about my plugin, SImple Flash Video, I would be happy to try and answer them here. Always looking for feed back and suggestions to better the plugin :) Thanks!
-Josh
Wow, thanks Josh! A responsive developer is worth his/her weight in platinum.
Well you have to be if you want to make your tool useful :) I have gotten some great feedback from users so far and have some very cool features planned!
Hi Josh,
I tried it out a few weeks back and really liked it but had to stop using it because all of the embed parameters would show up in the rss feed before the post. So the effect was that people using iTunes or any other RSS reader saw a bunch of code instead of a description of the video. The other problem I had was that when using the flv fallback option, the flv would always show up as the single enclosure in RSS feed which is not desirable.
Thanks for the feed back. I have just finished up a beta release with Stats tracking and Validation a key part. It would make sense to try and fix the rss feed. Will take a look at what I can do for that :)
Hi Verdi! I just finished up Beta 2 and it now will replace the code if it is on a feed and replace them with links to the file. If its an FLV it links to the original webpage post. Does this help? I don't do much with RSS feeds so feed back would be great!
You Can test your aggregators here:
http://www.simplethoughtproductions.com/feed
I just tested with itunes and it uses the name of the post for the video name, it gets the basic description from the post text. and seems to work as expected :) FLVs are ignored as expected :)
Hey Josh,
Your plugin is working great now! But I've found issues with the new JW Flash player so I'm not quite ready to switch. The new version of the Flash player doesn't play nice with older flash plugins so the whole fallback thing is useless. grrrrrr. Hopefully that will get sorted out soon.
Glad to hear it works but sorry to hear 4.0 is not doing it for you. What problems are you having exactly with the 4.0? One feature I was thinking about putting in is that the player will just display "Upgrade Flash" and link if they do not have a new enough player to play a .mp4 file.
Here's what's happening:
1. The new flash player can only read by version 9 of the plugin. So I changed that piece of your plugin to specify it as 9. Otherwise older plugins were trying to play the swf and it just appeared broken.
2. The fallback feature is not a flashvars anymore (I still don't understand how to specify it) so if you have a flash plugin v 9 but not one that will play h.264 then you just get an empty player with a spinner.
The reality is that this won't be an issue for very long and it's acceptable for my own site but I was trying to set this up on my company's website so we're going with 3.16 for now.
Thanks for that update, I have since replaced the code to require 9.0.115 as it is designed for .mp4 files.
I was looking on the forums and it seems there is a JS way of doing the fall back which seems silly but I think I can make it work :) Once I get that done I will be releasing a new beta :)
Issues with H.264 and Flash Player and maybe more …
Hi Forum’s members
I have some issues to play H.264 in a Flash Player, but sure I have some issue with something else before.
I will start from the beginning.
I’m using the wonderful Spacey 1.3 theme in WordPress 2.5.1 (thanks M. Verdi!).
I looked at the “Showinabox: How To Install And Use VPIP” tutorial (thanks Ryanne!).
Because I liked the Flash Player I saw in this tutorial, I downloaded the JW Flash Player.
I followed the “unfortunately poor” JW Flash Player Installation instruction if you are not a “code jockey”, what I’m not.
After unzipping the 2 downloaded zip files, I was guessing I had to upload the player.swf and swfobject.js in the upload folder within the wp-content folder.
Maybe that is my first error?!?!
The JW Flash Player Installation instruction says:
Second, embed the player in your HTML page with these lines of code. If you place the files in different directories, make sure to set the references in this code accordingly:
<p id='preview'>The player will show in this paragraph</p>
<script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','player','400','300','9');
s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
s1.addParam('flashvars','file=video.flv');
s1.write('preview');
</script>
Question: Where do I have to put these lines of code?
In some specific place in WordPress 2.5.1?
In some specific place in the Spacey 1.3 theme?
I was following step by step the “Showinabox: How To Install And Use VPIP” tutorial and after looking at the “MichaelVerdi-FlashH264205.mov”, I downloaded from the Adobe page the latest version of the “install_flash_player_osx.dmg” and updated my Flash Player.
After doing all these steps carefully, I could not see H.264 playing through any Flash Player.
Using the Flash Player coming with vPIP, I was just able to see the shape of the player with something looking like a wheel in the center, turning and turning and turning … but not a single frame of the H.264 movie uploaded on my server.
Using the JW Flash Player after re-setting the VPIP plugin, I saw nothing, not even the shape of the JW Flash Player, nothing. Just a white and empty space with a “close” icon somewhere on the top left.
I was reading carefully the different posts of this page but I have to confess that I’m too new in the WordPress world to pretend to find a solution to my issues.
Sorry for taking so much space in this page.
I hope somebody could bring some solution to my issues.
Best Regards
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