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i couldn't resist correcting such a legend on the boards as yourself hehehe

Ok, got another issue reported and fixed - thanks again to rw1 ;-) - and just released alpha4 ...

Changes vs. alpha3:

• Fixed a JavaScript issue with IE7 and Opera, happening when displaying multiple videos of the same type in one page.
• Added support for 'stage6' external provider (DivX web-player based)

Cheers
-Fritz

It is not officially announced at all and not in the plugin list either ;-)
Before announcing it (and moving to beta stage) i wanted to finish the documentation which is horribly outdated. Without a properly written documentation, this plugin is almost useless for newcomers.

Cheers
-Fritz

Fritz,
Documentation - did you find formal documentation?
Doc pieces seem to be located in various places:
- in the mambot back-end
- JED description  http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,812/Itemid,35/
- Blog post  http://demo.joomlaworks.gr/content/view/21/32/
Have you found anything else?

crazyleggs,
How about changing the title on this thread to "AllVideos Reloaded for Joomla 1.5 discussion thread"

Done

I have everything, thanks. The problem is, that I already have added so many new parameters and features and I'm lagging behind with documentation of all that new stuff. The JW flvplayer has so many incredible features and only a small fraction of those were ever used in the old original AllVideos plugin. Have a look at the JW flvplayer doc yourself and you can imagine what's still missing but can be achieved in future releases pretty easily: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/ ... You know, I'm kind of a code junkie  - always tempted to add more cool stuff and improving things - on the other hand I'm a poor documentation writer. For example, today during lunch break, I implemented a scripting wrapper so in the next release, you can control the player via javascript-links in your page content or from the menu ... But this feature is still undocumented ...

I think, I'm going to release alpha5 later today (the module will be available as well) and then restrain myself and stick to documentation-writing for a while.

Cheers
-Fritz

Hi Fritz,

Good work. Tested latest alpha4 and works fine using FF and Opera.
For IE7 there is an issue meaning that the player only loads at first visit.
Browsing the site and visiting the article including the player a second time leaves a blank page (hidden player).

Think something like that did happen for other video plugins earlier too, and partly was related to css or other scripts.

This is apparently a caching problem in IE7. Somehow it does cache the object itself (the flash) but not its parameters (the flv to be shown). If have done some tests with IE yesterday and when I either clear the cache manually in IE-DeveloperToolbar (the ordinary clear function doesn't work at all) or disable caching altogether (again, in DeveloperToolbar), then it works.

Currently, I have no clue how to work around this.

Dunno if this IE error fix, for people using SWFobject and Mootools at same time, can be of use:
http://www.rednas.be/news/43/swfobject- ... -error-fix

Thanks for the hint, i will change the code accordingly. In my case however this was not related to JS at all. The fact, that a player is loaded -yet invisible - indicates that the JS call was successful. I even could hear the soundtrack of an invisible movie playing
In my case (an I think in your case too) this is a bug in JW's flvplayer 3.13. Fortunately, somebody found it and published a source fix (see here: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=7667#msg46991 ). Unfortunately however, Jeroen hasn't released anything knew by now. So I applied the fix myself and compiled the player. I can confirm now that this fixes the caching issue with IE7. As a temporary solution, i will distribute the patched flvplayer as part of the plugin. Whenever the next JW flvplayer is released, there will be a release of my plugin with the new player as well....

Cheers
-Fritz

Fritz,

IE issues
Something else to consider re:IE7, MS settled their suit with Eolas.
http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/micr ... 120899.asp
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/1 ... pdate.aspx
IE updates are planned for Dec. 2007.

No more “click to activate” in Internet Explorer
http://www.swffix.org/devblog/?p=19
So the current IE workarounds will become unneeded eventually.

SWFObject
AllVideos currently uses SWFobject v1.5.
SWFObject 2.0 is at RC1 now.
Documentation
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki ... umentation
Project home
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

SWFObjects 2 was previously SWFfix
http://www.swffix.org/devblog/

Looking forward to trying it out.

Ok, alpha5 is out.

Changelog vs. alpha4:

• Patched JW Mediaplayer (temporary fix until 3.14 is out).
• Mootools compatibility fix (thanks to Ole Bang Ottosen).
• Disable express updater, if window is smaller than 214x137.
• Provide a custom event for use from within a module.
• Added 'auto' and 'autoremote' tags.
• Added scripting (enablejs param).

Furthermore, the the promised mod_avreloaded is out too 

The module has just one single parameter: The video code. There, you enter the desired tag of the avreloaded plugin.
The plugin supports overwriting all parameters from within the tag (until now undocumented) and you will need this feature in order to use the module. So here is an excerpt of the doc I'm currently writing (I know, some remarks missing - simply hadnt the time yet):

The plugin parameters can be set in two ways: First, in the administration backend of the plugin, you can preset global parameters which affect all videos. Second, you can override these global settings in each tag individually. When overriding parameters, you add them - separated by spaces - inside the first part of the tag like this: {flv width="180" height="150" autostart="true"}party{/flv}. Overriding always uses a lowercase attribute name, followed by an equal sign, followed by the attribute's value quoted in double quotation marks.

The following table shows the supported parameter names, their attribute counterparts (the name to use when overriding) and their possible values:

Global SectionGlobal ParamterAttribute NameValues
Plugin ParametersContainer classavcssany class name
Plugin ParametersMaster video widthwidtha pixel value
Plugin ParametersMaster video heightheighta pixel value
Plugin ParametersiFilm video widthiwidtha pixel value
Plugin ParametersiFilm video heightiheighta pixel value
Plugin ParametersMetacafe video widthmwidtha pixel value
Plugin ParametersMetacafe video heightmheighta pixel value
Plugin ParametersFlash display modewmodewindow, transparent or opaque
Plugin ParametersFlash background colorbgcolora color value 1)
Plugin ParametersMaster audio widthawidtha pixel value
Plugin ParametersMaster audio heightaheighta pixel value
Advanced ParametersControls colorpbgcolora color value 1)
Advanced ParametersControls text colorpfgcolora color value 1)
Advanced ParametersControls highlight colorphicolora color value 1)
Advanced ParametersVideo backgroundpsccolora color value 1)
Advanced ParametersAutostartautostarttrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow digitsshowdigitstrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow volumeshowvolumetrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow iconsshowiconstrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow stopshowstoptrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow downloadshowdownloadtrue or false
Advanced ParametersShow fullscreen buttonusefullscreentrue or false
Advanced ParametersLogologoURL/relative path 2)
Advanced ParametersVideo screen modescreenmodemode identifier 3)
Advanced ParametersPlaylist sizeplsizea pixel value
Advanced ParametersStretch contentstretchstretch mode 4)


Remarks:

1. Color values can be specified in any of the following formats and are converted to the correct format automatically:

    * A 6-digit hexadecimal value, preceeded by a hash sign (e.g.: #223344 like ordinary HTML syntax)
    * A 3-digit hexadecimal value, preceeded by a hash sign (e.g.: #234 like CSS short syntax)
    * 3 decimal values following the word rgb in parenthesis (e.g.: rgb(99,140,235) - like CSS rgb syntax)
    * A 1-6-digit hexadecimal value, preceeded by 0x (e.g.: 0x2345 like in JavaScript)
    * One of the 16 standardized color names as specified in HTML 4.0.1 (e.g.: red)

2. Logo images can be specified either by their absolute URL (e.g.: http://host/logo.png) or - if locally stored on the same server - by their local path (e.g.: /images/stories/logo2.png). The logo should be png (preferred) or gif in order to support transparency. The logo is always positioned in the upper right corner of the video screen. If you like a different position you can work around this limitation by creating a larger image where most of the image is transparent.

Tested alpha5 and it works fine using IE7. Great 

ok, the only error I get when doing the install is:
JInstaller::install: The language file 'de-DE.plg_content_avreloaded.ini' could not be installed because the Administrator language package for 'de-DE' has not been installed or does not exist.

Don't need this language pack, so its fine.
Was able to install the module successfully, and used it with a wmv and flv files successfully.

I keep forgetting, I use IIS and I have to configure MIME to load flv files for each site I host.

Setup IIS to play/stream flash files
Go to properties under website in IIS
Select HTTP Header tab
Select MIME types
Select new - Input "flv-application/octet-stream" in MIME type field and .flv in the Extension field
select ok, exit out and restart web server

I just installed the allvideos reloaded plugin and am getting an interesting error.  If I have an article on a page nothing renders  on my site. 

The html output is:

I am using the default Joomla! template rhuk_milkyway and it doesn't matter what the article contains the plugin wipes my site clean.  Any ideas on what is causing this?  I'm not even sure where to start looking.

If you get something like this, a fatal error terminates PHP and PHP's error display is switched off. Usually, the error should be logged  into the server's error log in that case. Have a look there.
Just a guess: What PHP version do you have? I have made some fixes for PHP 4.4.7 recently, is your PHP perhaps older?

Happy new year
-Fritz

Thanks Fritz, I don't see any errors in my php logs but I didn't realize that I am running PHP version 4.4.1.  I'll update to the latest PHP version and see if that helps. 

Okay, I've updated to PHP 5.1.4 and have changed error report to all in my php.ini.  Now when I load up a page with an article I get the following error message:



The call stack shows line 85 of allvideos.php being the line of the error.  It looks as if line 92 actually calls the error 500.  My database was migrated from a Joomla 1.0 installation.  Is there an error in my tables?

No, no problem with your tables. You obviously have debugging switched to on - which causes this "error". If you look at the relevant code, it tries to get some data from a table which does not (yet) exist (because it is part of a future component). It then falls back to getting the data from includes. The table class throws an exception and this is catched by Joomlas debugging. If you switch that off, it works without that bug. I don't know how to catch this - A try..catch clause cannot be used since that would be incompatimle with PHP4.

-Fritz

Thanks again, you are right!  I turned off debugging and now everything works great!  I had debugging on to try to identify the problem and it ended up causing it.    So I guess my original problem was due to using to old of a version of PHP?  Thanks for your help!  I'm glad to have this plugin working, it's one of my favorites.

Hi all,

I just released 1.0alpha6 with some small fixes/additions:

• Added new attributes: plthumbs, link, linktarget, linkfromdisplay and type
• Added new tags divx, divxremote, mp4 and mp4remote
• Fixed a regex for conditional attributes

Documentation about all those attributes is still work in progress...

Cheers
-Fritz

So how would I go about upgrading my current install without having to reinstall?

Thanks

hi crazyleggs,

u have to uninstall the old plugin, then re-install the new plugin.  just note the parameters in the backend before u uninstall if u want them to be replicated. 

rw1

this is probably not related to the plugin, but a more general issue. i am getting this error when installing when installing:

JFTP::mkdir: Bad response
JFTP::chmod: Bad response
JFTP::store: Bad response
Warning! - Failed to move file

running the 1.5 release "karibu".

thanks much

Hi all,

I'm using the module for swf and flv and its working great.  Can't seem to get it to work with mp3s.  I have a one pixel vertical white line on the right of every player even after changing every color reference I can find in the module to 000000.  Anybody have any idea where I need to look.  Fritz, thanks a lot, lot, lot for working so hard on this player.

Totally my bad - had the incorrect path in the FTP settings.

Perhaps it's not the flash, but the surrounding container? The default classname for that is "allvideos" so you can try setting that classes background in your template's  CSS. like this:

.allvideos {
    background: #000;
    color: #000;
}

Apart from that: Which browser on what OS?

Cheers
-Fritz

hello,

can u go to your joomla backend>help>system info>directory permissions and see if all the files are writeable?

also ask your host if the ownership on these files is correct. 

and then let us know your findings. 

all the best,

rw1

edit: oh just saw your follow up response, all good then

Hi everyone,

Just finished the first draft of the new documentation, so - as promised - AllVideos Reloaded goes beta now and I finally published a news item on joomlacode. 

Thanks to you all for your patience and support.
Special thanks to Robin for extensive testing, brilliant ideas and helping me to get my demo site up and running!

Get 1.0beta now!

Greetings
-Fritz