Comments on: Flash and Flash Video EPiServer Dynamic Content

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

By: Martin Emanuelsson

Martin Emanuelsson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:53:25 +0000

Hello Frederik,

Good improvements to Allan’s dynamic content. Just wanted to give a suggestion regarding the id that you add manually here. We’ve done similar updates to Allan’s code, without the flash video option but with for instance swfobject, like you have, and also the possibility to feed xml to the flash for localization and such things. But regarding the id, we’ve solved this by adding the following code to the places where this has to be unique:

this.GetHashCode().ToString()

This way the editor doesn’t have to add id manually but instead this is handled automatically for them, just a suggestion

Best regards
Martin