How do I embed a Flash Player and link to FLV files?

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On 22 Feb 2007, 10:48 am, waltd wrote:

If there is separate JavaScript (in a block, with
maybe a function foo() type thing in it) then that should go in the
Page>HTML Markup>Before section. If there is JavaScript that
has to go on the page where you want to play the movie, then that
should go in a Markup Item on the page. More about that in the next
para.

I looked at FlowPlayer, and that just seems to use a very slightly
extended SWF file – one extra parameter added for the “flashvars”. In
that case, all you would need to do is put their code for the flash
object into a Markup Item. Insert>Markup Item, paste the code, tweak
the variables to match your actual filenames, and then Okay the dialog.
Resize the 100px box you will see in the middle of your page, move it
to where you want the movie to play, and you’re almost done.

In all of these cases, there is the problem of getting the movie(s) up
to your server. Enter Upload Stuff. This free Action from Tim Plumb[1]
can place additional files on the server, either in the Resources
folder or directly alongside the HTML. One caveat here – if you re-use
the same player swf on more than one page, don’t put more than one copy
on the server, because Freeway will rename one of them to avoid
filename conflicts, and anyway, it’s just a waste of space.

Walter

Does this still work? I’m using Freeway 5.4.2 Pro.

I’m trying to get FlowPlayer to work and I’ve followed the instructions on their website as well as these tips from Walter.

Is there a conflict with some Freeway Actions? I’m getting an error when I Publish the page:

Publish Problems
8 December 2009 12:53:03

ACTION CANNOT BE USED. The following Actions have been incorrectly applied and will be ignored.
Action: “Transition FX”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.
Action: “Target Show/Hide Layer”, Page: “Home Page”.

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On 8 Dec 2009, 11:54 am, Paul Hibbert wrote:
Is there a conflict with some Freeway Actions? I’m getting an error when I Publish the page:

Just a quick glance at their web site showed me they are dependent on JQUERY. So yes, there is a javascript conflict between javascript libraries.

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jQuery can be told to “play nice” with Prototype using the
noConflict() function. That said, there is a serious drag on the site
visitor to download two complete JavaScript frameworks that each do
more or less the same thing. Even compressed, it’s a large chunk of
duplicate code.

You might want to explore the http://scripteka.com site for a suitable
Prototype-based replacement, as that will avoid you needing to remove
all the Freeway bells and whistles or delve deep into the bowels of
jQuery (lovely image, that) to fix up the differences.

Walter

On Dec 8, 2009, at 11:43 AM, chuckamuck wrote:

On 8 Dec 2009, 11:54 am, Paul Hibbert wrote:
Is there a conflict with some Freeway Actions? I’m getting an
error when I Publish the page:

Just a quick glance at their web site showed me they are dependent
on JQUERY. So yes, there is a javascript conflict between javascript
libraries.

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B**gger. Is there a way round this?

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I’ll check out Scripteka - thanks

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While I’m evaluating what Scripteka has to offer (seems to mostly operate using popup windows), the FLV Player action is almost what I need (that’s what I’m using at the moment), but for 2 things:

  • I could do with the option to Autoplay (on trigger or page load)

  • I need a controller that I can configure - the supplied controllers are too big

Is anyone working on enhancements to the FLV Player? Is there some other way of doing this?

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I should have mentioned the address:

http://www.amanzi.org.uk

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I could do with the option to Autoplay (on trigger or page load)

Or even some sort of a poster frame so that the visitor is not met with the big ugly play button.

David

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On 8 Dec 2009, 6:41 pm, DeltaDave wrote:

I could do with the option to Autoplay (on trigger or page load)

Or even some sort of a poster frame so that the visitor is not met with the big ugly play button.

David

Yes indeed Aotoplay would be the answer to a lot of things I was looking for as well. Autoplay would be great and I can’t believe that it is that difficult to acheive. Did you manage to resolve this at all?

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Hi guys,

Unfortunately autoplay isn’t available in the built-in Action. You might want to give this new HTML 5 Video Action a try though:

http://actionsforge.com/actions/view/184-html-5-video

It will play movies on all platforms/browsers through the new HTML 5 video tag if it’s available, if not it will use a Flash video play (Flowplayer) instead. It’s pretty much untested and won’t produce valid HTML (since the video tag isn’t part of HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0.

Give it a whirl and let me know what you think, though I can’t take any credit for it, all the hard work was done by this chap:

http://code.google.com/p/html5media

Joe

On 4 Mar 2010, at 12:30, tonzodehoo wrote:

On 8 Dec 2009, 6:41 pm, DeltaDave wrote:

I could do with the option to Autoplay (on trigger or page load)

Or even some sort of a poster frame so that the visitor is not met with the big ugly play button.

David

Yes indeed Aotoplay would be the answer to a lot of things I was looking for as well. Autoplay would be great and I can’t believe that it is that difficult to acheive. Did you manage to resolve this at all?

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