Embedded Video Improvement

if you get gallery2 (current svn/2.2), upload some flvs and then install/activate flashvideo, it will work for those. flv's uploaded on 2.1.x or older don't get used (G2 only knows them as GalleryUnknownItem).

nope, hadn't caught that yet.. now fixed, thanks.

(and "module" is correct.. in G2 terminology modules and themes are all "plugins")

Here's the newest version. You need to replace the one you have, or rename it in the code:

Notice I changed the cab version for flash to 8, my players use code that only works in v.8. But some of it does work in 7, so users should be able to at least view the movies. Linux users are not so lucky though still stuck at v.7 can only hope v.8 comes out soon for them.
So if you are concerned about flash versions you can set it at 7, should still work for those who have 8 installed.

-Wayne

OK,
I've become lost in translation. I was out of it for a week and now I am confused. The method was before to add..

The wat I was doing it was to add to the file GalleryAnimationItem.class code that started with..

case 'video/x-flv':
and ended with...
$fallback);

But now the code you state to adjust above looks different and I am confused on where this is to go.
I have not updaded to current svn/2.2 or anything. I was just continuing to use my current 2.1 developer installation.

What do I have to do and where should I put the new code. Sorry, I musta got lost, somewhere down the line.

Thanks for your help..... Again!
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Banta

Unfortunately, upgrading is out of the question if you are using an integration.
Hopefully someone can find some time to do up a quick how-to guide for 2.1.1a.

Pretty please

I lost the use of the sidebar when I upgraded.
Everthing else worked without fault...including the flashvideo module.

It's integrated into Xoops.

Here's the deal. Your movie has no dimensions.
If You "edit movie", and give the dimensions, it will display properly.

FFmpeg is supposed to handle movies with .mov,.wmv,.flv...... extensions, but on windows it does not opperate properly.(I have many ffmpeg builds to test)

Although if your movie uses a codec that ffmpeg does not recognise, you will still get an unkown error.

I'm in close contact with the ffmpeg boyz' and we are working to resolve this. I'm hoping to have a new build shortly.

ok. i did what you said, but my flv movie already had 480x360 as the movie dimensions. now what?
and, if what you said is correct, why/how? (i used riva to encode and uploaded to the site) 800kb flv file.

http://www.robplatt.com/main.php?g2_itemId=83654

From what I see on your site, It looks like none of the necessary changes have been made. Did you update to 2.2-svn or the latest nighly?

G2 shows the thumbnail when you don't have "view original" permission and you don't have "view resize" permission or there are no resizes (movies won't have any resizes..)..

OK, I installed the nightly snapshot and everything is working nicely.

I have a couple of questions.

1). Using thumbnail manager, should I be able to select the time offset of which I would like the thumbnail to be? Right now, I get ' Seconds (Max = 0.000) ' for my movie clips. Selecting an offset time produces this error... 'There was a problem processing your request.'
I am using IIS and ffmpeg module is working, as I get frame 1 for the thumb of newly uploaded files.

2). What is the trick to get this to work with existing uploads in the Gallery? For instance, I have 20 movie clips. Upon installing the new Snapshot, the clips only had a 'Download' link. When I add a new clip or, delete and re-upload an old clip, it works as expected. I though I read that it can be done, but, it perhaps I was mistaken.

suprsidr
Kudos once again for your work on the player. It is working very nicely and looks great! Very impressive work on this one guys.

OK, Thanks.

To get around the first frame as thumbnail issue, I modify the file \modules\ffmpeg\classes\FfmpegToolkit.class

find the code..

	case 'convert-to-image/jpeg':
	    $args = array('-f', 'mjpeg', '-t', '0.001', '-y', $tmpFilename);
	    if (isset($context['ffmpeg.offset'])) {
		array_unshift($args, '-ss', $context['ffmpeg.offset']);
		unset($context['ffmpeg.offset']);
	    }

and chage it to...

	case 'convert-to-image/jpeg':
	    $args = array('-f', 'mjpeg', '-t', '0.001', '-y', $tmpFilename);
	    if (isset($context['ffmpeg.offset'])) {
		array_unshift($args, '-ss', $context['ffmpeg.offset']);
		unset($context['ffmpeg.offset']);
	    }else { 
	    array_unshift($args, '-ss', '26.5'); 
	    } 

This will create a thumb approx. 26 seconds into the movie upon initial upload. Change the number to whatever is appropriate

HTH
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Banta

The player buffers 10 seconds of the movie before playing. So it starts playing as soon as the buffer is full, in your case never.
I'll see what I can do. Fixing something like that may break others in the player.
Never thought of a clip of 4 sec. as a movie.

-s

I have also noticed in Firefox the status bar continues to show "transferring data from..."
I am not sure if actually is transferring, I don't know how to check.

I have a lot of .flv's transcoded from .mov that are real short from a digital camera.
Hopefully you can get that sorted out.

No, that did not work. It still shows through the whole clip.

I did not have a short one available, but I was able to create one.
It should be about 4 seconds. The size is 320x 240, umm but I guess that doesn't really matter.

It seems to working for me--large and short clips.

Thanks

Its available in the nightly snapshots, or svn. But it will not work with 2.1 or lesser. You would have to upgrade to the latest core(which is not considered a stable release).

This post is in regards to adding video/x-flv mime type support to G2.

I tried all this up until this point and I got some sort of version error. When I bumped the version number I went from 1.1.0.1 to 1.1.0.2. One of the errors I got was related to the fact that there was no case statement for 1.1.0.1. I backed out the changes and I guess I will wait for native suppport in some future release.

Thanks for all your efforts getting this to work. I just had trouble with the version that I have.

Rich

I got the latest G2 cvs release (dated 6-5-2006) and upgraded. It must be pilot error because when I upload a .flv file, I am not able to view it. I just have the save or open with option when I click on the hypertext. I have a mime type of video/x-flv enabled. Any other thoughts as to why I cannot view the flv file?

Thanks.

Rich

I'm curious why we cannot play FLV's encoded using On2's encoder?

I tried but, I too get the results described by rl. FLV's encoded with other methods work fine.

Thanks in advance for any explaination you might be able to offer.

Banta

For some reason my configuration must be different. When I "edit" the uloaded flv file, I am not provided an option to change "dimensions" of the file. I do not have ffmpeg. I host with siteground.com (very reasonable, but no ffmpeg or shell access). Is it possible that it could be the file. Does anyone have an .flv file that I could try to see if that is it?

Thanks for the support.

Rich

Just FYI, for whatever its worth, I encoded numerous files using Riva FLV Encoder, and uploaded them. (earlier i was having problems because no one told me there was an FLV module to activate, and i couldnt see my plugins page due to some error, once activated flv files played fine).

However, the dimensions were in gallery, I did not put them there. Riva uses ffmpeg.

We actually discussed this earlier in this thread.
Conversion short of very small clips would be too cpu/time intensive.
Even Google and YouTube require you to submit your videos for conversion with some taking weeks.
I know for a full length feature film, I usually go from vob->divx->flv with the whole process taking 4-6 hrs. or longer depending on the amount of compression I setup for.

You could however schedule a watch folder for conversion with cron/scheduler although some kind of auto-upload would have to take place.

It is something I've been thinking about though. I recently saw this tool, which looks promising.

-s