hi,
it seems that i am one of these dummies...
i can't get it working.

my settings on 1.2.6:
1. /private_fotos instead of /zenphoto (changed it in .htaccess as well)
2. same filename for video and thumbnail (e.g. name.flv and name.jpg), both in the same album
3. flvplayer-plugin is the only plugin activated (flv player version 3 selected)
4. copied player3.swf and pasted it as "flvplayer.swf" in /private_fotos/zp-core/plugins/flvplayer (i don't know wheather this is necessary or not)

i can see the thumbnails on the web and in admin area. however, if i click on a thumbnail, i'll get it displayed with following link: http://server.de/private_fotos/albumname/name.jpg.php?z&p=full-image

what do i do wrong?

br, juergen

Your thumbnail link is pointinting to the raw image rather than the image page where the player would be activates. Presumably you have a custom theme. Give one of the distributed themes a try and see if it works.

Active theme is the default one.
Selection of other themes coming with the standard installation does not change anything.
Any other idea?

You can turn off full image protection. Also be sure that the class-video plugin is enable.

Done, I've turned off full image protection and enabled the class-video plugin.
Now, http://server.de/private_fotos/albumname/name.flv.php doesn't show any media content (pic or video).
However, "normal" pics are being displayed in http://server.de/private_fotos/albumname/imagename.JPG.php.

Then check to be sure you have the proper Flash versions installed on your browser.

And of course the flash player itself enabled. Also make sure that flowplayer supports your movie files.

Enabled plugins: flvplayer, class-video.
Installed flash player: Adobe Flash Player 10
When displaying name.flv.php, right mouse click on flash player displays: "video not loaded".

ok, switched from flvplayer to flowplayer3.
now it works. Thanks for your support.

If an .flv is played is dependend on the actual encoding of it. .flv is actually a container and not a real format. Sometimes these players are a little picky on details.

I'm having the same problem as the OP. I did not do #4 he mentioned, but I don't think that's needed, right?

I've tried flowplayer, and I've tried class-video
I've tried .mp4 and I've tried .flv
I've tried custom themes and the default theme
Whenever I upload a thumb with the same name as the video, the thumb image is recognized as a regular image - no video. It's like the video is being totally ignored.
I've searched all over the forums but can't find the very basics about how this is supposed to work. Some simple questions:

- It's implied that you can only have video in an album named "video", or that you can't have a mix of video and images in a single folder. Is this true? That would seem kind of odd (and I would assume it's not the case). Anyway, I tried this, and no luck.
- Does anyone have an album with video working so I can at least see how this is supposed to work/look?
- Is there a list of steps that you have to do? or some kind of comprehensive checklist to get video working? As usual, my guess is there is some small setting somewhere that I haven't noticed, and everyone just assumes "oh well, of course you have to do that... duh"

Any advice would be appreciated... The video I'm trying to get working is here:
http://www.phlumf.com/gallery/verboort/
The first image ought to be a video/thumbnail, but it just loads like a regular image. Right now, the page is in the cimi theme, and I understand this theme might not support video, but I've had the same result in the default theme.

- You can have mixed albums of everything, flv, mp4, mp3 and images.
- Take a look here: http://zenpage-demo.maltem.de/album1/ (last image is a the video)

You have to either enable flowplayer or flvplayer AND the video-class plugin. The first are the actualy players and the latter adds support for video in general. You do not have enabled the second.

We will add a note to the player plugins to make this more clear.

Thanks, that was it... I still wasn't able to get the video to play, but the player did come up, so that's better. Anyway, video isn't a priority for me... just something I want to work on some time. fwiw, the Cimi theme doesn't support video (as I suspected). I really appreciate the reply! (actually, to all my recent questions). I'm pretty happy with the way this is all taking shape!

I have been able to get the flowplayer working without any problem, but cannot get jwplayer to work. The "where to put" directions have a different directory location from the other plugins, i.e. under zp-core. http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/plugins/_zp-extensions---flvplayer.php.html and it shows two subdirectories /flvplayer/flvplayer. I have tried putting the 4.5 player and swfobject where these instructions indicate and also under plugins/flvplayer Which is correct? I wanted to try jwplayer with pseudo-stream. I am using the Zenpage-default theme. It keeps saying to activate the player and the class-video and flvplayer are both enabled.

While the actual plugin is within `www.yourdomain.com/zenphoto/zp-core/extensions` the files should go straight into www.yourdomain.com/zenphoto/plugins/flvplayer`.