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I’ve built a custom flv player for my site that I want to feed video using an EE XML template.  I’ve created a weblog with a custom field set that includes the field “Video”.  I’ve also created an upload directory that is set up in the preferences.

So, I go to the publish section, create a new entry, upload a video, set it to go into the “Video” field and it appears in that field as https://ellislab.com/asset/images/ent-partner-logo/nameofthemovie.flv.  All this is fine and exactly what I would expect.  Except that the movie player doesn’t work.  I thought I’d done smething stupid in Flash but I’m not so sure.

The problem is, when I load the template for the XML feed in my browser the field for the video renders as https://ellislab.com/asset/images/ent-partner-logo/nameofthemovie.flv.  https://ellislab.com/asset/images/ent-partner-logo/ hasn’t been relaced by the actual path to the video file and this would probably explain why videos aren’t loading up into the flash player.

Can anyone help please?  What am I missing???

can you post code?

The EE XML template I’ve made looks like this:

<code><videoprofiles>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="artist_profiles" rdf="off"}
<artist_title>{title}</artist_title>
<artist_video>{artist_video}</artist_video>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</videoprofiles></code>

I’m not sure what else I could post that would help you.  I’ve built a simple playback module in Flash that uses and XML connector.  I have no reason to think that it doesn’t work.  It seems that the crux of the problem is that EE isn’t replacing https://ellislab.com/asset/images/ent-partner-logo/ with the actual path so it would seem to be a problem before it even gets to the XML feed.

If I preview the entry in the Control Panel then it shows correctly, with the path!

So the file info is in the {artist_video}?  I’d check to make sure you’re using the most current build of EE, just to see if it’s a bug.  But in the meanwhile, you could just place the path in the code like:

<code><videoprofiles>
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="artist_profiles" rdf="off"}
<artist_title>{title}</artist_title>
<artist_video>http://www.mysite.com/downloads/videos/{artist_video}</artist_video>
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</videoprofiles></code>

Only storing the file name in the {artist_video}.

Thanks, that’s a good workaround.  I’ll use that to test it and then see if I can get it to work the other way at a later date.  I’ll update to the latest build too.