Comments on: How to add Flash Video (.flv) with controller to the Text/HTML Module in DNN http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/ Official Adammer Blog Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tina http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-876 Tina Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:29:21 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-876 How do you get the scrubber bar to NOT appear by default? I want the scrubber bar not to show up when the video first starts playing: it should only appear when the user mouses over it. Is this possible using the default Flash video player skins? I would think I'd just need to pass some sort of parameter, like "scrubber=0" or something. How do you get the scrubber bar to NOT appear by default?

I want the scrubber bar not to show up when the video first starts playing: it should only appear when the user mouses over it. Is this possible using the default Flash video player skins? I would think I’d just need to pass some sort of parameter, like “scrubber=0″ or something.

]]> By: Adam Humphrey http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Adam Humphrey Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:50:19 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-237 <a href="#comment-236" rel="nofollow">@ Barry</a>, Last I checked (many months ago so don't hold me to this), the f4v format had a mime type of "video/mp4" (Video for Adobe Flash Player). The .f4v format will not work with the embed method described above. A link to a .f4v file on your web server will launch an external Adobe Flash Player or Adobe Media player. However, my knowledge may be out of date and there may be a method to embed .f4v videos in HTML. If anyone reading this knows of a way to get this done, please post a comment and enlighten us. Further reading: <a href="http://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/" rel="nofollow">http://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/</a> @ Barry,
Last I checked (many months ago so don’t hold me to this), the f4v format had a mime type of “video/mp4″ (Video for Adobe Flash Player). The .f4v format will not work with the embed method described above. A link to a .f4v file on your web server will launch an external Adobe Flash Player or Adobe Media player.

However, my knowledge may be out of date and there may be a method to embed .f4v videos in HTML. If anyone reading this knows of a way to get this done, please post a comment and enlighten us.

Further reading: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/video/

]]> By: Barry http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Barry Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:44:18 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-236 This is great, could you tell me what I need to change to play .f4v videos? Many thanks Barry This is great, could you tell me what I need to change to play .f4v videos?

Many thanks

Barry

]]> By: Adam Humphrey http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-200 Adam Humphrey Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:51:48 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-200 <a href="#comment-199" rel="nofollow">@Patrick Brown-Hayes </a> Did you follow the debugging steps in <a href="#comment-192" rel="nofollow">Comment #7?</a> There may be an issue with .flv files using the default settings of IIS (not sure which version). I haven't had time to try to duplicate this issue as it works correctly on my development server running Win 2003/IIS 7. @Patrick Brown-Hayes
Did you follow the debugging steps in Comment #7?

There may be an issue with .flv files using the default settings of IIS (not sure which version). I haven’t had time to try to duplicate this issue as it works correctly on my development server running Win 2003/IIS 7.

]]> By: Patrick Brown-Hayes http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Patrick Brown-Hayes Mon, 02 Nov 2009 23:30:39 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-199 Adam, I am trying to do as everyone else and I am having issues also :(. Can you possibly help. Adam,

I am trying to do as everyone else and I am having issues also :( . Can you possibly help.

]]> By: Jay http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Jay Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:52:25 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-198 <a href="#comment-197" rel="nofollow">@ Adam Humphrey </a> Yes, that did it. I was so caught up in making sure the paths were right that I looked right past the id's. Thank you! @ Adam Humphrey
Yes, that did it. I was so caught up in making sure the paths were right that I looked right past the id’s. Thank you!

]]> By: Adam Humphrey http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Adam Humphrey Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:12:27 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-197 <a href="#comment-196" rel="nofollow">@Jay</a> Yes, you will need to make a couple changes if you wish to embed more than one video in a single page and/or container. 1) You need to change the id of each object. You must have a unique id for each video you wish to embed. For example, this would be the change to the code for the second video on the page: <code><object width="400" height="350" id="<strong>FLVPlayer2</strong>" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"></code> Notice the id has been changed from "FLVPlayer" to "<strong>FLVPlayer2</strong>" 2) You need to update the JavaScript code to reference the object you just renamed. <code>swfobject.registerObject("<strong>FLVPlayer2</strong>");</code> That should be all you need. P.S. You only need to reference the swfobject.js file once per page. Make sure it's included before the code for the first video on the page. @Jay
Yes, you will need to make a couple changes if you wish to embed more than one video in a single page and/or container.

1) You need to change the id of each object. You must have a unique id for each video you wish to embed.

For example, this would be the change to the code for the second video on the page:
<object width="400" height="350" id="FLVPlayer2" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">

Notice the id has been changed from “FLVPlayer” to “FLVPlayer2”

2) You need to update the JavaScript code to reference the object you just renamed.

swfobject.registerObject("FLVPlayer2");

That should be all you need.

P.S. You only need to reference the swfobject.js file once per page. Make sure it’s included before the code for the first video on the page.

]]> By: Jay http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Jay Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:49:31 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-196 Excellent tutorial! It worked perfectly for the first flash file but I can't seem to get more than one file on a page. Should some of the code be left out of a 2nd, or subsequent, instance of the module? Cheers, Jay Excellent tutorial! It worked perfectly for the first flash file but I can’t seem to get more than one file on a page. Should some of the code be left out of a 2nd, or subsequent, instance of the module?

Cheers,
Jay

]]> By: Sébastien http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Sébastien Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:45:04 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-193 <a href="#comment-192" rel="nofollow">@ Adam Humphrey </a> I'm loading a .flv file. I check your 3 points with success but this is not better for my problem. However, I 've got success with http path to access the files (like : http://www.mydnnwebsite.com/web/portals/0/includes/swfobject.js) I also add to configure the web server IIS to accept .flv type MIME. IIS won't serve up .flv files. I had to go into the IIS settings and add a MIME type entry for flv files (Enter extension .flv, MIME type video/x-flv). It will keep the http solution to load .flv into DNN. I suppose I've got a security problem with path like "/Portals/0/includes/swfobject.js". Best regards @ Adam Humphrey
I’m loading a .flv file.
I check your 3 points with success but this is not better for my problem.
However, I ‘ve got success with http path to access the files (like :
http://www.mydnnwebsite.com/web/portals/0/includes/swfobject.js)
I also add to configure the web server IIS to accept .flv type MIME.
IIS won’t serve up .flv files.
I had to go into the IIS settings and add a MIME type entry for flv files (Enter extension .flv, MIME type video/x-flv).

It will keep the http solution to load .flv into DNN.
I suppose I’ve got a security problem with path like “/Portals/0/includes/swfobject.js”.
Best regards

]]> By: Adam Humphrey http://www.adammer.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-add-flash-video-flv-with-controller-to-the-texthtml-module-in-dnn/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Adam Humphrey Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:23:16 +0000 http://www.adammer.com/blog/?p=95#comment-192 <a href="#comment-191" rel="nofollow">@Sébastien</a> This tutorial is for Flash video files (.flv). Make sure you’re not trying to load a .swf file. 1) Double check the code in your Text/HTML module to make sure you don’t have any typos. 2) Download all the files again to make sure they were not corrupted. 3) Make sure you have permission and access to each file you downloaded. In the example above I would check my .flv file by typing http://MYDNNSERVER.COM/Portals/0/videos/OurVideo.flv in the browser’s address bar. Do this with each file making sure to use the same file location that is in your code. Give that a shot and let me know how it goes. @Sébastien

This tutorial is for Flash video files (.flv). Make sure you’re not trying to load a .swf file.

1) Double check the code in your Text/HTML module to make sure you don’t have any typos.

2) Download all the files again to make sure they were not corrupted.

3) Make sure you have permission and access to each file you downloaded. In the example above I would check my .flv file by typing http://MYDNNSERVER.COM/Portals/0/videos/OurVideo.flv in the browser’s address bar. Do this with each file making sure to use the same file location that is in your code.

Give that a shot and let me know how it goes.

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