Trying to setup a CCK field to accept a url of a video hosted on our Adobe Flash Media Server (Using Flowplayer 3 as the video player).

I can get it to work if i set the text processing as filtered text (user selects an input format that supports swftools), and I supply a URL such as:

[swf file="video2009" stream="rtmp://video2/vod"]

I cannot seem to get profiles to work in any fashion at this time so i can control how the video content display is handled. Looking through the issue queue, it's unclear to me whether or not profiles work with Flowplayer 3. When i specify a profile as the display field, it can never find the video because it seems as though it's trying to find it in the drupal file system rather than fetching the video from the streaming server.

Here are my questions:

  1. Does flowplayer 3 work with profiles to display streaming video? Referencing http://drupal.org/node/483524 it seems that it may not at this time. If the answer is no, which video players are currently supported?
  2. Is an input format required for a CCK field to display content via swf tools? Or, can plain text work for this as well?

Cheers.