NPM's WebLog

Sunday February 03, 2008

testing embedding JW FLV player

I was impressed by the level of control available on the JW FLV Player via JavaScript controls and calbacks from the player... So I decided to see how this all actually worked while embedded inside a xwiki and/or roller -like environment.

FYI: the key to getting the captioning or secondary-audio working is to have it loaded at creation time. this is related to this tidbit from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?thread=8218 :

from the readme:

usecaptions (true,false): Set this to false to force the captions to hide by default.


captions (url): You can set this flashvar to the location of an
external textfile with captions. The players support SMIL's TimedText
format (example) and the SRT format (example) used with ripped DVD's.
Set this flashvar to "captionate" if your FLV file has Captionate
captions embedded. If you use multitrack Captionate captions, you can
set this flashvar to "captionate0", "captionate3" etc. to display a
certain track. A live example of different captions can be found here.
You can also assign captions for every item in a playlist.

to change the captions file you must recreate the player - please see the linkplaylist demo from the demopage for simple example code for recreating a player from a link...