Comments on: Eddie’s FLV Player

By: yitwail

yitwail — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:03:35 +0000

Well, I've managed to get it to sort of work with nginx. I had to change nginx.conf to rewrite the request like so: location ~ \.flv[^.]*$ { root html; if ($args !~ "start=") { rewrite (.*)\.flv(.*) $1.flv?start=$2 break; } flv; } phpstream appends a number to the flv filename, so this converts filename.flv0 to filename.flv&start=0, etc. Only problem I'm now having is that with autoload=0 & autoplay=0, it still loads the flv file, and when the flv finishes playing, it reloads the whole file yet again. Hope there's a workaround.

By: yitwail

yitwail — Sun, 30 May 2010 11:30:00 +0000

Eddie, The 'original documentation' says very little about phpstream. Would an example be too much to ask? Also, does player work with nginx or lighttpd stream servers? Many thanks.

By: Eddie Sullivan

Eddie Sullivan — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:57:05 +0000

Hi Leendert. Sorry for the trouble. I haven't had the opportunity to test it on Windows 7, so I'm afraid I can't help you debug that.

By: Leendert

Leendert — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:15:58 +0000

Hi Eddie,

I found thate it probaly is caused by windows 7. On a computer with win-xp it shows (almost) directly the first frame.

thanks for help. Leendert.

By: Eddie Sullivan

Eddie Sullivan — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:51:17 +0000

Hi Leendert.

I'm sorry, then, I don't know what could be causing that. Could it be it is showing the first frame of the movie?
-Eddie

By: Leendert

Leendert — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:33:23 +0000

Hey Eddiie,
Thanks for your responce but :( My problem is; when the webpage with the player is loaded it shows the startimage when you click on the play button this image is disapearing and the playerscreen gets black for some time. After the flv is loaded for about 75% then the movie start and also the loadingbar is visuable.

thanks

By: Eddie Sullivan

Eddie Sullivan — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:25:53 +0000

Hi Leendert.

Check out the original player's documentation here, and try the showloading option to show a message while initially loading or startimage to show an initial screenshot.
Hope that helps!
-Eddie

By: Leendert

Leendert — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:39:10 +0000

Hi Eddie,

When having a slow internet connection it will take some time before a movie starts "playing". The only thing you see is an empty player whitout showing any activity. I have tried the buffer parameters but nothing happens :(
Any idea how to show a buffercounter or an hourglass?

thanks.

Leendert

By: Eddie Sullivan

Eddie Sullivan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:18:44 +0000

Hi Udayan.

Sorry, I don't know what could be causing that problem. Could it possibly be server or connection reliability issues? If you have Firefox, you can use the Firebug plugin to look for error messages in the Console and Network panels. Good luck!

-Eddie

By: Udayan

Udayan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:12:23 +0000

Hey Eddie,

Good work on the FLV player. I don't really use the additional javascript features but the slider control is def better.

Anyways, I am running into an issue where the player doesn't always load. It won't show the controls or anything, and if I right click where the player should be, I don't see the flash menu. I can't figure out a pattern. If it doesn't load, hitting F5 usually works. Any idea what could be going on?

Thanks.

Udayan