Comments on: Flash and Flash Video EPiServer Dynamic Content

By: Jon Haakon Ariansen

Jon Haakon Ariansen — Fri, 27 May 2011 06:34:32 +0000

Thank you very much for your reply!
I downloaded the sample .mp4 file from the page you provided and uploaded to my site (Episerver CMS 6 R2 / MS Framework 4)
and created a testpage.
What I find interesting is that the result was the same as on Ipad. When testing in Internet Explorer 9 (9.0.8080.16413) 64-bit OS,
flowplayer was all black. I thought at first that it was supposed to be like this but runnin the sample local I saw the animation.
Episerver is therefore not compatible with this movie or at least some kind of configuration has to be made to make it work.
Thank you very much for your help!

Kind regards,
Jon Haakon

By: Frederik Vig

Frederik Vig — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:38:10 +0000

Hi Jon Haakon,
Afaik by default Flowplayer should have fallback for iPad, iPhones etc. You do need to make sure your .mp4 file is H.264 encoded though (you can test with sample from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1425). If you want some more options there’s also an iPad plugin for flowplayer: http://flowplayer.org/plugins/javascript/ipad.html.

Hope this helps.

Frederik

By: Jon Haakon Ariansen

Jon Haakon Ariansen — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:55:54 +0000

Hi,
This plugin seems like what I need. Or at least my problem is how to get Flowplayer to run on Ipad. I’ve added .mp4 as mimetype to the site, I’ve tested to move the movies in a seperate VPP directory based on EPiServer.Web.Hosting.VirtualPathNativeProvider, but with no luck. The site is running well, but I’m not able to run the video on Ipad. The flowplayer screen is black. Androide is fine. I’ve adjusted the settings in your code to more recent values. I’m using flowplayer-3.2.6.min.js and /Flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf

All our videos are in .mp4, I tried to change this but with no luck. I guess there need to be additional changes to the code to support .mp4.
And adding this plugin seems to remove the tinymce editor for xhtml properties.

I’ve tried to put the file on the root of the websites directory and load it from there. That is fine. Both with url and uri, but when the file is loaded from VPP, the flowplayer is black (doesn’t load).

Any suggestions?? In advance thank you very much for your reply!!
Jon Haakon

By: Mårten Berg

Mårten Berg — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:07:10 +0000

Works great, thanks for the post.

By: Frederik Vig

Frederik Vig — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:55:14 +0000

Should work fine with EPiServer CMS 5 R2 and later. Have you tried using the test movie I linked to in my comment above?

By: Andrey Lazarev

Andrey Lazarev — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:59:39 +0000

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Hi Andrey!
Make sure that you copied the Flowplayer folder, and placed it in your sites root folder (http://example.com/Flowplayer). I’ve been testing with this file http://flowplayer.org/video/flowplayer-700.flv, though I know Flowplayer supports other formats as well (see http://flowplayer.org/documentation/technical-facts.html) – your best bet is to convert your movies to .flv.

Hope this helps.

Frederik
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Sorry, but – no luck
It’s not working. I’ve tried different ways to provide the path to FLV-file in plugin interface, but got only the black square with “Movie not loaded” in the context menu. Are you sure it’s wotking with the EPiServer CMS of 5 version? Maybe there should be some pre-requisites or some web.config-tuning for the application?

By: C-J Berg

C-J Berg — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:19:54 +0000

You shouldn’t use the GetHashCode value for building the id, since it doesn’t guarantee uniqueness; it only aims to distribute its values uniformly. A lot of developers get this wrong.

It would be better to allow the user to optionally enter a specific id, should she want to (like you first did). Who knows, perhaps it’s needed by some custom JavaScript code the user also adds to the page. When it’s not filled in, you could automatically generate a request unique id by utilizing a counter in Context.Items.

Better yet is to replace the fugly built-in editor with some decent alternative, such as TinyMCE that already has a media plug-in.

By: Frederik Vig

Frederik Vig — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:39:19 +0000

Hi Andrey!
Make sure that you copied the Flowplayer folder, and placed it in your sites root folder (http://example.com/Flowplayer). I’ve been testing with this file http://flowplayer.org/video/flowplayer-700.flv, though I know Flowplayer supports other formats as well (see http://flowplayer.org/documentation/technical-facts.html) – your best bet is to convert your movies to .flv.

Hope this helps.

Frederik

By: Andrey Lazarev

Andrey Lazarev — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:41:37 +0000

Hello, Fredrik!

I found your player compilation very useful but got two major ‘bugs’:

1. Player is unable to play anything except SWF-files. I followed your steps in ‘Installation’ section but it seems that more verbose installation procedure is required for me

2. I can’t see any controls at all for the movie. Is it normal?

By: Frederik Vig

Frederik Vig — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:13:44 +0000

Hi Martin!
Good suggestion on the GetHashCode method. I’ve updated the code now, and removed the id field. One thing to remember though is that HTML id attributes cannot start with a digit, they have to start with a letter in the roman alphabet (I just added the flash prefix for this).

Frederik