Embedded Video Improvement

Oh, and I forgot to mention.
@valiant - I set 2 variables sb and lb for short buffer and long buffer respectively.
So we can adjust these buffer lengths externally if we wish via flashVars.
If they are not set externally they default to 3 and 15.

-s

actually the link you supplied worked for me, no bufferclip.
try clearing your cache after replacing G2flv.swf.

And ffmpeg itself does not inject metadata into flv.

-s

what i was talking about is with ffmpeg (command line) i get the slider bar showing where the clip is playing at the moment, but with the 3rd party (uses ffmpeg in the background) one it shows the bar but not the line of where it is at that moment

oh my god!!!

I finally got it working, you guys rule!!!

So i now have flv files playing in gallery2.

Awesome work everyone

I don't have thumbnails yet but i'll try to sort that out now.

I have ffmpeg making nice thumbnails for other video formats, hmm

1 question tho. Since i've now updated my galery version to 1.0.0.3, what happens the next time there is an upgrade?

I'm not sure how much help i can be, but i'm very interested in making a really nice player that has play speed controls and other functions (setting up online video tuition site) I've got a lot of flash experience but not sure where to start, are there some fla files for the player knocking about anywhere for me to have a look at?

Cheers everyone,

matt

Now to figure out how to get thumbnails working...

BTW I set up gallery2 2.2 and the video work is amazing, thank you guys so much. Video's used to be annoying, not any more!

I actually tried that but for some reason it didn't work. although I don't see a reason why gallery couldn't do it, I used ffmpeg to create the thumb from the final flash video. Any Idea where I could look at to try to get this to work, even if just on my own copy?

aperion

oops.. sorry i knew there was a reason it still didn't work for me, FFmpeg hasn't been installed by my host.. sorry I misled you.

Suprsidr,

Thanks, I'll grab it tomorrow at some time

If your hosting is running linux you can get the binary here: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/36523
although then you may just be in the same boat as me

where is flashvars="streamName= setup, because I would like to add the "autoStart=false" to all my videos, or is this the correct place to add it.. or can i change the default from true?

reason being, I see that using main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=fullSize will show a random fullsized video (i'm sure others knew this but i just noticed it) but ff I add it to a website, i would like the user to have to click it to start it.

yep..

I took this code

<embed src="%s" flashvars="%s" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
			   width="100%%" height="100%%" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="lt"
			   pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>

and made it..

<embed src="%s" flashvars="%s&autoStart=false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
			   width="100%%" height="100%%" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="lt"
			   pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>

thanks!

I guess the "autostart=false" didn't work as well as I thought... looks great under firefox, but in IE you can't see the play button (don't think it's there) but also the entire video window is black and the video starts without clicking the video, but instead waits till you move your mouse over the video window (just mouseover)

--edit-- ok i fixed the play when mouseover, had a false where it was a true..
So the only problem is that in IE the video window is black (and you can't see the play button)and FireFox the video window is white with the play button. So it go back to my question a couple post ago, how do I have the first graphic of the video instead of being blank? --edit--

nope we hadn't talked about that, but without thinking of the code yet.. If i upload a "thumb" that is really 384x288 will gallery still show a 75x75 thumb on the album pages (auto size the large image to 75x75)? I guess it's something I can try

if you make sure the swf has a transparent bg ie:
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" /> - for object
wmode="transparent" - for embed

-s

I have ffmpeg installed and configured correctly. I have the Thumbnail Manager installed. I installed the FlashModule.

No thumbnail is created. How do i configure that?

click "downloads" in the top bar of this site and find Gallery 2.2-RC-1. the flashvideo module is included.

upload a .flv file.. without flashvideo module installed, browsing this is G2 would just show a "download" link. with flashvideo module (and flash support in your browser!) you'll see the movie in a flash player.

click "edit movie" and set the movie dimensions.
for further questions, please create a topic in the support forums. this is a thread to discussion development, not support or usage. thanks.

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Hello all,
I have been using flvplayer in my gallery 2.2.2 site for a little while now. Everything is running great so far, however I need help on setting the player to use a different skin.
I have created a modules/flashvideo/lib/skin directory and put in all the flvplayer skins.

I'd like to use:
clearSkin_1
http://www.peldi.com/fmswiki/index.php?title=Image:Clear_1.jpg
or
haloSkin_2
http://www.peldi.com/fmswiki/index.php?title=Image:Halo_2.jpg

Heres the flvplayer section I currently have in my FlashVideoRender.class
-----
$playerUrl = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
array('href' => 'modules/flashvideo/lib/flvplayer.swf'),
array('forceFullUrl' => true));
$skinUrl = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
array('href' => 'modules/flashvideo/lib/skin'), array('forceFullUrl' => true));
$flashVars = sprintf('streamName=%s&skinName=%s&autoPlay=true&autoRewind=false',
urlencode($src), urlencode($skinUrl));
-----

What would I need to change it to to make use of a different skin? I see the part that reads skinName=%s , just wondering what exactly I put there to get it to work properly.

Thanks,
John

Suprsidr,
Thanks for the quick response.
If I had to guess I'd say the .swf at the end of the skinUrl is not needed. The skin files are in pairs for each skin:
clearSkin_1.as
clearSkin_1.fla

... hours later
Just realized ther those 2 skin files arent actually skin files but parts to make a skin file. After using them to make a skin file with a trial version of macromedia I was able to place the new clearSkin_1.swf file into my gallery/modules/flashvideo/lib/skin/ directory. Only then was I able to get the skin to work. Incidentally its is clearSkin_3.swf that had the adjustable volume slider (not clearSkin_1 as the site http://www.peldi.com/fmswiki/index.php?title=FLVPlayer suggests

I've also used your suggestion and packaged files you make available at
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/61982#comment-227121
to get IE (not just IE 7, but also IE 6) to play the video right away. The only thing I did was(see quote below) convert the file from dos to unix (removing the arbitrary ^M's at the end of each line of txt in the file

Here is a snippet of my tweaked FlaskVideoRenderer.class that calls the javascript you posted for the FLVPlayer as well as the default player

My only hangup now is getting the right side of the player bar, after the volume, to show up. The bar ends abruptly
See: http://keyburn.net/gallery/v/album03/album13/album18/Puppies_2005-9-12.flv.html
This is clearSkin_3 modified to use the same button for play & pause (I named the new skin clearSkin_4) Attached are the clearSkin_4 skin files. If you have a go at it and can get it working please let me know! Thanks

have a good one,
John

So the completed flashvideo module that has been out for 2 yrs and has been working for all does not work for you?

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery

Hello,

i guess that it's better to place my question here instead of opening a new thread. I'm a php-beginner and I'm not so familiar with scripting. Nevertheless I would like to replace standard G2flv.swf-Flashplayer with JW FLVPlayer from www.jeroenwijering.com in flashvideo module. I've already changed the name in FlashVideoRender.class as follows:

/* Default player: G2flv.swf replaced by flvplayer*/
/* Including SWFObject<http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/> to defeat the "Click to activate..." in IE */
$SWFObjectUrl = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
array('href' => 'modules/flashvideo/lib/swfobject.js'),
array('forceFullUrl' => true));
$expressInstallUrl = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
array('href' => 'modules/flashvideo/lib/expressinstall.swf'),
array('forceFullUrl' => true));
$playerUrl = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(
array('href' => 'modules/flashvideo/lib/flvplayer.swf'),
array('forceFullUrl' => true));
$flashVars = 'file=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/afraid.flv' . '&Width=' . $width . '&Height=' . $height;

With the static full URL in $flashVars it works fine. Even with uploaded files on the local server. But when I try it with variable content under flashVars I'll never get the right path. I searched for this about 3 days when I found this thread. But unfortunately I didn't understand how it works with $urlGenerator and all that stuff. When I try similar settings for $flashVars from flvplayer I always see only the black screen on the player and the movie never starts. I put in an echo function on $src Variable with the following result:

$src = http://web222.webbox666.server-home.org/gallery2/d/77-2/48testisdn_001.flv?
But the right path I need is:
http://web222.webbox666.server-home.org/gallery2/Video/48testisdn_001.flv

"Video" is the real directory, where I uploaded all my flashfiles. With that path the JW FLVPlayer works pretty good. So can anybody from you experts tell me how I should realize that line with $flashVars or with $src?
Here is a very good readmefile for JW FLVPlayer with all possible flashvar settings:http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/readme.html

I really appreciate your work and your great Gallery2 script. I checkt out several other Gallery scripts, but I think thats really the best of all!!

Let me know, when you need further information.

Here is the system info:
Gallery-Version = 2.2.2 Kern 1.2.0.4
PHP-Version = 4.4.7 cgi
Webserver = Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.8a
Datenbank = mysqlt 5.0.32-Debian_7etch1-log, lock.system=flock
Werkzeuge = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Getid3, LinkItemToolkit, Gd, Ffmpeg
Beschleunigung = none/0, partial/900
Betriebssystem = Linux webbox666 2.6.18.2 #1 SMP Mon Nov 6 12:37:38 CET 2006 i686
Standard-Motiv = classic
gettext = Aktiviert
Sprache = de_DE
Browser = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 4.0)
Zeilen in der GalleryAccessMap Tabelle = 16
Zeilen in der GalleryAccessSubscriberMap Tabelle = 14
Zeilen in der GalleryUser Tabelle = 2
Zeilen in der GalleryItem Tabelle = 12
Zeilen in der GalleryAlbumItem Tabelle = 2
Zeilen in der GalleryCacheMap Tabelle = 30

best regards...

Thanks Dave,

of course I used the gallery interface. First I uploaded them manually via ftp into my own created Video directory. Then I added them with "add item" --> "localy from server". And with standard G2flv.swf player it works fine. Even the thumbnails were automatically generated. Before that worked I had to install ffmpeg (as slackbinary) because this function is not supported by the webspace provider. But as I said that all works fine.I also tried the flowplayer and that worked also very good.
Now I don't understand how I can get that path to my flashfiles in my Video directory. I guess that the database should know the real location even if .../d/77-2/flashfile.flv is shown when .../Video/flashfile.flv is the physical place. ....on the other side...maybe that I'm absolutely wrong and you would say that the flashfiles were copied into the "database" directory .../d/77-2/.... Then in that case I really have a problem with JW FLVPlayer. ...Maybe I didn't have the right syntax for flashVars then.
What I tried first was: $flashVars = 'file=' . urlencode($src) . '&Width=' . $width . '&Height=' . $height;
And here is the line from setup wizard made by JW FLVPlayer side: flashvars="&file=http://www.jeroenwijering.com/upload/afraid.flv&height=180&width=320"
With my settings the JW FLVPlayer came up but without showing a video (and without a second right click ;-) ).

Hope you can help me. I can't solve that because I don't understand the process behind that.

ok i found : $item->fetchPath()