Re: Couple of ?'s regarding Dash Media Player

Hello publishing!

Seems like you are on the right track, but here are the answers to your questions...

• It does not matter where the RSS or XML files are located as long as you pass the absolute path to the Dash media player using the file parameter. For example, if you pass in http://www.mysite.com/shama/lama/ding/dong/videos.rss using the parameter file, it really doesn't matter where the player is located since it will actually use the abosolute path when opening the RSS feed.
• Also doesn't really matter... Although, I would like to make a suggestion. I will be working up a tutorial very shortly on using the FlashVideo module with Dash Media Player, but until then, I would like for you to follow this guideline....
  • Use the FlashVideo module as the mechanism to upload and convert the videos
  • Instead of using flashvideo_get_video or [video] to display the video, it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that you use the dashplayer_get_player instead. If you wish to simulate the flashvideo_get_video API using the dashplayer_get_player API, then use the following code...
    

    <?php
    $params['node'] = $node->nid;
    $params['width'] = 450;
    $params['height'] = 405;
    print dashplayer_get_player($params);
    ?> 
    

    This does the same thing as print flashvideo_get_video($node, array());...

• The path that you have set for the Dash Media Player is the recommended path.
• You will NOT notice the affect if you are using the FlashVideo API to show the player... Only when you use dashplayer_get_player will you notice the parameters come in from the Config file. Also, the flashvars section in the config file is just a way to allow you to not have to pass in a hundred parameters using the object code FlashVars, but it will still work if you use the FlashVars to pass in these variables.

I hope this helps!

Thanks,

Travis.

The only thing I can really do here is give you an example of a player and its remote playlist with each config file respectively. Suppose you want to setup the player with a horizontal remote playlist (which seems to be what you are doing here). Here is what you would do....

For the Player

<?php 
$params['width'] = 550;
$params['height'] = 420;
$params['id'] = 'dashplayer';
$params['config'] = 'player';
print dashplayer_get_player($params);
?>

And its config file would be given as player.xml in the config folder and look like this....

<params>
   <license></license>
   <gateway>http://www.mysite.com/services/amfphp</gateway>
   <apiKey>123456789</apiKey>
   <baseURL>http://www.mysite.com</baseURL>
   <flashvars>
      <connect>dashplaylist</connect>
      <disableplaylist>true</disableplaylist>
   </flashvars>
</params>

And for the Horizontal Playlist

<?php 
$params['width'] = 550;
$params['height'] = 120;
$params['id'] = 'dashplaylist';
$params['config'] = 'playlist';
print dashplayer_get_player($params);
?>

And its config file would be given as playlist.xml in the config folder and look like this....

<params>
   <license></license>
   <gateway>http://www.mysite.com/services/amfphp</gateway>
   <apiKey>123456789</apiKey>
   <baseURL>http://www.mysite.com</baseURL>
   <flashvars>
      <connect>dashplayer</connect>
      <playlist>videos</playlist>
      <playlistonly>true</playlistonly>
      <playlistskin>hplaylist</playlistskin>
      <vertical>false</vertical>
   </flashvars>
</params>

Now that I look at this code, I think there might be some confusion as to what parameters can be placed in the XML file and what needs to be passed directly to the dashplayer_get_player API. There are 4 different parameters that you cannot provide using the XML file, and that is because they are used to construct the Object code, and not really ever passed to the player.

These are....

• width
• height
• id
• config (special in that it gets passed to the player as a FlashVar, but cannot be provided using the XML file)

I hope this helps....

Thank you! Dash Media Player is my number one priority and I am going to do whatever it takes to make it lead the way. I have many tricks up my sleave.

Stay tuned with version 1.1. I am releasing a Skinning API so that skinners can govern how the player behaves. It will be a great addition.

Thanks for the complements.

Travis.

OMG OMG OMG THIS:

$params['node'] = $node->nid;
$params['width'] = 450;
$params['height'] = 405;
print dashplayer_get_player($params);

WORKED!!!! THERE IS THE PRETTY LIL PLAYER RIGHT ON ME PAGE!

THANK YOU T

I POSTED JUST BELOW... THANK YOU

horizontal playlist is not working.
the Xml which i have created is

<params>
   <license></license>
   <gateway>http://localhost/sandbox/services/amfphp</gateway>
   <apiKey>b2deb83fb4bbc972744bac6ac5329082</apiKey>
   <baseURL>http://localhost/sandbox</baseURL>
   <flashvars>
      <connect>dashplayer</connect>
      <playlist>2ndplaylist</playlist>
      <playlistonly>true</playlistonly>
      <playlistskin>hplaylist</playlistskin>
      <vertical>false</vertical>
   </flashvars>
</params>

I jus got only the playlist but the video is not working

When i edited <playlistonly>true</playlistonly> to false the hplaylist skin is turned off and the default skin is working.

Travis, champion work. I followed your ffmpeg tutorial to once set up.
I set up Flashvideo and Dashplayer on a site: http://panorientnews.com/new/VideoPlayer
I made the views, set that in the Block, dashplayer set correctly with service key, etc.
Can you see from this page what the problem might be?

Thanks in advance if you have a minute!

Regards,

Matthew

Hi All,

I have added video module in drupal the player is loading but there is no video it is simply loading and player is unable to find the video path i think thats why video is not playing and just player is coming.....
Can i know what is the exact problem with my video player..

I am using Dash Player....

Thanks in advance...

--- Kira.........