Comments on: Simple Flash Video 1.6 RC2

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:25:39 +0000

Well if you just wanted to put the HTML in so it would work just put in the code generated. Woud look something like:



 Click to Watch!

By: frank

frank — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:14:21 +0000

hey! great plugin! what is the name of the php function. can you show me a little example code for calling the “simple video” from a sidebar or wordpress site via php ?!?

By: Josh Chesarek

Josh Chesarek — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:23:26 +0000

RC3 has been posted with a lot of fixes from RC2!

http://www.simplethoughtproductions.com/2009/01/17/simple-flash-video-16-rc3/

By: Barrie Real Estate

Barrie Real Estate — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:50:43 +0000

I love your plugin. Very flexible and looks great. It plays f4v files which is hard to find.

I am having trouble setting up simple stats. I have this error:
Warning: opendir(logs) [function.opendir]: failed to open dir: Not a directory in
/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/simple-flash-video/stats/functions.php on line 323

Warning: readdir(): supplied argument is not a valid Directory resource in /wordpress/wp-content/plugins/simple-flash-video/stats/functions.php on line 324

any ideas?

thanks

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:58:56 +0000

Fantastic. Thank you so much for all your hard work. I certainly appreciate it.

By: Josh Chesarek

Josh Chesarek — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:31:15 +0000

I have resolved custom titles and custom sizes when shadowbox is off. WIll be posting RC3 when I can test and do some more patches hopefully by this weekend!

By: Josh Chesarek

Josh Chesarek — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:09:29 +0000

Indeed SB is not exactly easy to get going. Which is partly why I have not updated to the new version. It can pain to get working I have wanted to get it back to being able to have an option to Auto close the player once the video finishes. When I was using Thickbox before the default behavior was to auto close the shadowbox. The version that I am using as far as I know does not auto close. Hence the need to click on the site or the x button to get it to go away.

The title part is really an easy modification so I might be able to do something about that easily but Im not sure about auto close.

Sadly I can only work on these projects in my free time as they are not my primary source of income. Due to that a fix may take some time. 1.6 has been in development for a while now when I really wanted to finish it a few months back.

I am glad the plugin worked easily for you and was able to help you develop other potential solutions. If you code any fixes or features inside of SFV please feel free to post them here or email me and I might be able to include them in future releases.

By: Shack Dougall

Shack Dougall — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:03:06 +0000

Josh,

Thanks for the quick reply!

I really like Simple Flash Video. It has a similar feature set to Shadowbox JS, but for a beginner, Simple Flash Video is easier to get working. Shadowbox JS supports every viewer plugin under the sun and this makes the first usage more complicated.

Simple Flash Video makes it easy to skin the viewer and automatically generates the img tag for the cover image. And as you mentioned above, Simple Flash Video has the stats tracking.

But I’ve encountered two issues that are causing me to go with Shadowbox JS in the near term.

1) I need to be able to change the title and this works today in Shadowbox JS
2) There seems to be an issue when closing the flash viewer. In Simple Flash Video, the shadowbox seems to hang around after the flash viewer is closed. I have to click a second time on the shadowbox to make it go away. In Shadowbox JS 2.0.3.2, the shadow box closes immediately when the flash viewer closes.

But even though I’m not using Simple Flash Video, it has helped me a lot. I initially tried Shadowbox JS and couldn’t get it working. Then, I tried Simple Flash Video and it worked immediately. I was then able to study how Simple Flash Video works and this enabled me to get Shadowbox JS setup. I know that’s kind of bittersweet, but I want to thank you for that anyway.

Looking forward to the 1.7 release!

By: Josh Chesarek

Josh Chesarek — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:20:56 +0000

Currently the plugin only pulls the title from the wordpress post title. I plan to change that in version 1.7 so you can use the title option to control it there. As of right now it would only effect the title that is reported to the stats.

By: Shack Dougall

Shack Dougall — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:02:28 +0000

Awesome plugin!

I’m using 1.6RC2 and WP 2.7. Trying to set the title using something like:

[video filename=http://foo.com/bar.mp4 title=Foo /]

“title=Foo” is added to the link that is generated in the post, but when the player opens up, it still has the title of the post.

I should be able to change this, right? “title” is documented here: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashVars

I just want to be sure that I’m not missing something.