The ExpressionEngine FLV player plug-in allows you to use the JW FLV Media Player (built with Adobe’s Flash) as an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website.

New version of FLV player is now out and all the LongTail Player config options are now available.

Please feel free to test

http://5pieces.com/addons/flv-media-player/

I usually kind of hard-code this myself in sites but thought I’d give this a go last night.

I noticed that in your documentation on your site you mentioned that this latest plugin won’t work with swfobject 1.5 but that you had included that version in the download

Once I downloaded V2.0 it started to work. I now have it working but was just wondering how you get the YouTube option to work? I noticed that it wasn’t working on your site either and also tha V2.0 of the swfobject doesn’t have that yt.swf file anymore. I tried once it was all working with both an .flv and .mov file to make it work with a YouTube link but it just would never load the YouTube movie. Just wondering why this might be?

Great work on a great plugin though, well done and thanks for releasing it to the community like that.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark,

that this latest plugin won’t work with swfobject 1.5 but that you had included that version in the download

Great catch, thanks version 2.2 is now included.

I don’t see any problem with the YouTube videos on my site. What specifically are you seeing?

Also make sure that the YouTube video you are using has permission to be embedded.

John Donovan - 12 July 2009 05:30 AM

Mark,

that this latest plugin won’t work with swfobject 1.5 but that you had included that version in the download

Great catch, thanks version 2.2 is now included.

No problem.

John Donovan - 12 July 2009 05:30 AM

I don’t see any problem with the YouTube videos on my site. What specifically are you seeing?

It’s actually more a case of what I’m not seeing All the other videos load and play fine on your site but the YouTube one just never ever loads. I’ve checked with the activity monitor in Safari too and it never starts loading from YouTube so not too sure what’s going on there?

John Donovan - 12 July 2009 05:30 AM

Also make sure that the YouTube video you are using has permission to be embedded.

Yep I tried it with one that I had on YouTube but no go I’m afraid :-(

I’ll try in Firefox and see what I get though.
Edit - Just tried in Firefox too and same thing. I could see in Firefox as soon as I pressed the play button that it contacted YouTube but then did nothing else. No data loads or anything.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark,

did you have any more luck with the YouTube videos. I have tried numerous machines now and also have had no reports of it not working. Does the YouTube playlist work?

EDIT:  the moment I hit reply I got a report of it not working. Do you know what version of the Flash player you have installed?

Hi John,

I’ve currently got V10,0,12,36 installed on one machine where it isn’t working. Not sure what I have at home on my main machine but it will be one of the latest versions.

Best wishes,

Mark

I used this plugin in one recent project. It’s great. Thank you!

Hi John,

Does this version of the plugin allow for using config.xml to skin the player?

Cheers,

Cormac

Cormac,

No, thanks Cormac. I did not add the config parameter. I will roll it back into the new version and update the my website in the next few nights

Cheers John, let me know when you have had a chance to add it in, I have a client asking for it.

By the way, that’s your plugin in action on the new Agtel site. It’s worked out very well for them, so thanks for the good work.

I tried replacing an existing v.4.0 installation with 4.5, and all videos stopped appearing.

Is there an obvious parameter that would cause this?

Here is the code I am using (I have simplified the URL paths a bit):

Note that I am using the accessibility plug-in for captions.

Many thanks for any suggestions!

Have you got a link Tony? You can email it to me if you don’t want it public.

Tony,

Try the following

When using this for YouTube videos, is it possible show a preview or still shot of the video instead of a black screen before the user clicks play?

Deron,

There are 3 images you can use for the YouTube image.

0.jpg is the largest but you also have 1.jpg and 2.jpg to play with too. These are the thumbs you pick in YouTube.

So to use you would do something like this.

Also there is a new tutorial available

Playlists for the FLV Media Player with FieldFrame

Thank you John!

One question: When you say “these are thumbs you pick in YouTube.” Who picks them? The user when they upload a video to YouTube? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that option when I upload videos there, so I’m a little confused. Is there a way to make 0.jpg larger or is it a set width and height and cannot be changed? Thanks!

Who picks them? The user when they upload a video to YouTube?

Yes the user has the option of picking thumbnails, see attached screenshot from the Edit page of a video upload

Is there a way to make 0.jpg larger or is it a set width and height and cannot be changed?

That is a set width and height as far as I know (320px X 240px)
images 1, 2 & 3 are 130px x 97px

EDIT : default.jpg is also available

Ah, I got ya. I see that it’s on the edit page now. I kept thinking it prompted you when you upload the video and I never was seeing it.

Thanks for your help. I’ll implement this and see what happens!

We love this plugin first off. We use it on our website for both audio and video.

I just tried upgrading it to 4.5 from 4.0 and my videos no longer work. We were using the viral-1 and google analytics plugins. From what I can gather from the plugin docs it looks like I’m supposed to include flashvars to enable functionality in the plugin but I don’t know how to accomplish this using the FLV Media Player 4.5 EE plugin. Here’s a link to our video player page:

Video Player

and on our audio page:

Audio Page

Any idea why it is no longer working?

EDIT: I had to revert back to the old versions of everything because I needed to get the videos working again. So the links above will show everything working. Maybe I can switch back to the new versions when you have a chance to look at this post.