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Can anybody help point me in the right direction? I want to to create a page in umbraco that contains an embeded media player that will allow a user to click on a link for a video clip and the clip will load into the player and play, has anybody got any ideas?
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[/code]I've used a flash player to do this (since more people have flash than windows media player) it looks like this http://en.900ttr.com/media-gallery/14-mile-at-some-place.aspxwhat i've done is; - I'm using this flash player: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player- I'm uploading files to the site using a standard umbraco fileupload editorControl - I've also written a httpHandler that stream the flv to the flashplayer so you get instand playback when the page loads. ;) my template for the movie page looks like this: Code:<br style="clear: both;" /> <div id="player1" style="margin-left: 6px; margin-top: 20px;"> <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player. </div> <script type="text/javascript"> var FO = { movie:"/flvplayer.swf",width:"760",height:"420",majorversion:"8",build:"0",bgcolor:"#000000", flashvars:"file=<?UMBRACO_GETITEM field="movie"/>&showdigits=true&autostart=true&frontcolor=0xe5e3c0&lightcolor=0xffd22c&backcolor=0x000000&overstretch=true" }; UFO.create(FO,"player1"); </script> <br /> where movie is the alias of the fileUpload in umbraco Code:
<?UMBRACO_GETITEM field="movie"/>
You have to add this inside web.config for the streaming to work... Code:<system.web> ..... <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="*.flv" type="FLVStreaming, FLVStreaming" /> </httpHandlers> </system.web> and you can get the httpHandler here: http://en.900ttr.com/FLVStreaming.zip (unzip and drop the dll into the /bin folder) you would also need the insert-flash-object-if-flash-is-supported-javascript-thingie here: http://en.900ttr.com/js/ufo.js
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forgot to say,
you also need to map .flv in IIS so asp.net handles that extention (for the flv streaming httpHandlder to work)
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And a free piece of software to encode movies to .flv if you don't have macromedia flash installed. http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder
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Excellent, thanks. Plenty for me to be going on with!
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OK, I have been playing with this and I am not quite getting what I need so I thought I would post where I have gotten up to. I noticed when I downloaded the FLV player that it is possible to submit a playlist to the player via an XML file which I think could do what I actually require but I have got stuck. This is the code that I have put into my template Code:<div id="player1" style="margin-left: 6px; margin-top: 20px;"> This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. <a href=http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a> to see this player. </div> <br /> <script type="text/javascript" src="/media/js/swfobject.js" /> <div id="player">This text will be replaced</div> <script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject('/media/swf/flvplayer.swf','mpl','320','340','7'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); so.addVariable('displayheight','240'); so.addVariable('file',/media/xml/playlist.xml'); so.addVariable('height','340'); so.addVariable('width','320'); so.write('player'); </script> <embed src="/media/swf/flvplayer.swf" width="400" height="400" allowfullscreen="false"/> <br /> In my 'playlist.xml' file I have teh following XML Code:<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/"> - <trackList> - <track> <title>Afraid</title> <creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator> <location>video.flv</location> </track> - <track> <title>Afraid (again)</title> <creator>Jeroen Wijering</creator> <location>video.flv</location> </track> </trackList> </playlist> The file 'video.flv' is in the same directory. I have gotten as far as the page trying to load a flash file but it just sits there with the little Adobe spiral spinning round in the centre of the screen with nothing else, any ideas what I am doing wrong?
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try using links relative to the site root in playlist.xml - like; /media/xml/myVideo.svf
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