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no videos showing - flowplayer

felipe1982 Member
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Currently active plugins:
* class-video v1.2.9
* filter-zenphoto_seo v1.2.9
* flowplayer3 v1.2.9
* image_album_statistics v1.2.9
* zenphoto_news v1.2.9
* zenphoto_sendmail v1.2.9

I've made a 'test' album, and (via SFTP) uploaded two movies. I got them both from KeepVid.com. One a FLV file (low quality) and one MP4 file (low quality) They are both trailers from a movie. I'm using them for testing purposes.

The album shows nothing inside. The files are 'chown 644' and world-readable. I have made no changes to flowplayer --- only accepted the defaults.

What else is required for me to play movies on my site?

http://felipe1982.com/photos/test/

user: p9quPRut
pw: p9quPRut

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    flv is not a codec but a container format that can contain various video codecs. You have to check on flowplayer's own site what it actually supports.

    Also flowplayer does not support all mp4 settings, again you have to try and check on the flowplayer site what it does.
    On thing I know is that some mp4 export setting from Quicktime for example somehow do not work while ffmegX export generally does.
  • felipe1982 Member
    Thanks for replying. I use linux extensively, and I'm a little familiar with `ffmpeg' and other video conversion tools.

    1. Can I somehow convert the movies to an acceptable codec/format that is playable by flowplayer?
    2. Does flowplayer first check the file type (codec type) before attempting to display them on zenphoto?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    We don't know what Flowplayer does exactly. Please refer to: http://flowplayer.org/
  • felipe1982 Member
    Hello
    I have checked out the site, and it seems that I may be required to download some packages, and add some JavaScript to my pages.

    Q: What is the purpose of the zenphoto flowplayer plugin?
    Q: How does one go about using the zenphoto flowplayer plugin, without referring to flowplayer.org?
    Q: is everything I need included in zenphoto plugin? What is *not* provided by plugin?

    I thank you very much for your time, and your patience.
    Felipe
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    You don't need anything to add. Enable hte video class plugin and the flowplayer3 plugin to play the formats .flv, .mp4 and .mp3 as documentated. It does work as expected.

    But as told some codecs (flv is a container...) or settings (size, bitrate etc) may not work with Flowplayer. About those details we can't tell you anything because we made the PLUGIN but NOT the PLAYER. You have to ask that on the flowplayer site.. Understood?
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