Hi there - I'm just inquiring as to whether or not the JW FLV Player 4.5 works by default with the latest SWF Tools, or if patching is required first? I love SWF Tools, and would like to use JW 4.5, but don't want to break anything.

Thanks
Josh

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#2 wijering4.5.patch51.05 KBbbilocura
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Stuart Greenfield CreditAttribution: Stuart Greenfield commented

I did a quick test and the basic player seems to work playing back local audio. I've tested further but I see no reason why local video won't work. I haven't tested streaming at this time. There's obviously no support for the new dock feature - need to think about that.

One problem seems to be that the 4.5 player doesn't work with the accessible controls feature if you happen to be using that.

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Hello,

Attached is a patch that will help with using the new JW FLV 4.5 features. Here are the changes:

+Added: Dock option to the bottom of the Appearance settings
+Added: plugins setting to the top of the Interaction settings to allow for the usage of player plugins
-Removed: Captions from Interaction. Captions are specific to the video they accompany and probably don't belong on the global JW player page.
=Changed: All instances of the incorrect "streamscript" flashvar have been changed to the correct "streamer".

Even though this patch runs correctly on my box, please make backups before you apply it because this is my first attempt at submitting one.

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mandclu CreditAttribution: mandclu commented

The patch in #2 works for me. In fact, I was able to add in some parameters to allow for the use of the Google Analytics Pro plugin, though it felt a bit hackish having to manually add the the various array parameters.

It would be better if somewhere there could be a textarea that allowed you to specify a number of custom flashvars and their values, to be included in the output of the final swf. One strategy would be to allow one parameter per line, with a pipe between the variable and its value.