swfobject.getObjectById("WSplayer").JS_PlayVideo

mixer · **Joined:** Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:57 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi all,
I buy our player product some time ago.

I try to use this function

omissis ...

function load_video() {
swfobject.getObjectById('WSplayer').JS_PlayVideo('/video/video.flv');
}

omissis ...

<body id="page1" onload="load_video()">
...
</body>
</html>

to play video when load a page.html.
In many cases when I load the pagae.html I get the following error and I see the default video specify on the playlist instead of '/video/video.flv':

swfobject.getObjectById("WSplayer").JS_PlayVideo is not a function

Line 33

I search on the internet but I not fiind any solution.
It's seems that player hasn't yet been loaded at the time I'm trying to use it. There is a special callback function that will be fired automatically as soon as it is loaded?

Best regards
_s_

admin · **Joined:** Wed May 12, 2010 10:49 am **Posts:** 108

Hi,
can you publish a testing page and send me a link.

I will help.

Please send it via http://www.webstunning.com/support/

Franci · **Joined:** Mon Oct 17, 2011 9:25 am **Posts:** 1

Thanks for the detailed reply. I could finally fix my problem. This helped me a lot.

butters · **Joined:** Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:54 am **Posts:** 2

Hi,

could you post the solution here? It might help me cause I have a similar problem:

I am using WSPlayer to only play files from a uri-list I fetched from a server side script before. First I had the same problem of the player object being undefined. I managed to solve this by checking if the player object is present before starting to play. That helped a lot, but still it happens that the video i passed to play can't be started. the player just doesn't react to pressing the play button. And the video never starts automatically, what it theoretically should and does, when i pass a second video after the first.

Also I have a basic question: I am using a dummy video in the playlist atm cause it seems you can't integrate the FLVPlayer without a video present. Did I oversee something, is there a possibility to start the player without a playlist and any video, if I want to pass the videos via the player object later?

I posted this as a reply to this thread cause I think its possible the solution Franci helped could solve all my problems, too. I hope an admin looks through this post anyway. If I don't get a response it might be I will open a new Topic, cause I think no one read it. So please don't blame me for that then. 8-)

My Code is found here: http://www.thomasstark.info/web/frank/v ... index.html
Its a bit complicated, cause I also have a Gallery and a lot of unrelated Javascript code plus an AJAX call in there. Don`t hesitate to ask, if a simpler example page could help...

Cheers,
butters.

admin · **Joined:** Wed May 12, 2010 10:49 am **Posts:** 108

Hi,
1. The player should have at least 1 video in the playlist. Unfortunately current version won't work without any video.

2. Possibly you are trying to start a video before the player is loaded completely. You can use flashEvent to make sure that player is ready to work, e.g.

function flashEvent(e){
if(e.event=="playerIsReady"){
alert("Now you can use JS_PlayVideo");
}
}

Add this function to your page.
Replace the alert with the " JS_PlayVideo" function.

butters · **Joined:** Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:54 am **Posts:** 2

Ahh, its that simple!!!!
Thanks a lot, seems to work fine!

admin · **Joined:** Wed May 12, 2010 10:49 am **Posts:** 108

Yes,
that's simple.

More info about "flashEvent" function:

http://webstunning.com/flv-player/tutor ... ashevents/

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