Are there really no working Open Source video players for MODx?

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eddygrove Reply #1, 16 years, 11 months ago

So, I have searched extensively throughout the forums, downloaded and installed two different videoplayers w/o success.

The Flowplayer seemed to be a promising alternative, and a test setup at my web host, accessed outside MODx, played reasonably. I have been unable to make it work in MODx, though. The only thread in these forums on Flowplayer seems to have died with no real conclusion http://flowplayer.org/documentation/installation/index.html
The Kaltura player sports a MODx extension that seems to be more of a lofty dream than something tangible http://www.kaltura.org/modx-kaltura-media-extension. There are however real extensions for WordPress, Drupal etc
The JWPlayer seemed very promising to begin with, but this thread http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,27835.0.html clearly shows that it is NOT for free use in a commercial/ad supported setup, which rules it out for many projects, including mine

Has anyone got a solution working to play video in MODx? If you got Flowplayer to work, all the better. I would be so grateful if someone could share some code. I suspected some kind of JavaScript conflict, and stripped the page from as much as I could, (i e with my limited script debugging knowledge.) All file (js, swf, flv) permissions set to 755. Are there file type settings in Manager Configuration to consider?

Thanks!

MODX Staff
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Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 16 years, 11 months ago

MODx outputs what you put in it, and doesn’t restrict in any way front end functionality. There’s more than a few sites with video in MODx. That said, you would need to probably have a TV that holds the video source, and a snippet or chunk that formats the call to the player.

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ramsay Reply #3, 16 years, 11 months ago

Hi,

We use OSFLV player (http://www.osflv.com/ - although their site seems to be broken at the minute) and XSPF (http://www.xspf.org/) player for audio.

Both are free and open source (unless I really missed something...)

Ramsay

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ramsay Reply #4, 16 years, 11 months ago

As a follow-up:

My FLVPlayer snippet looks like this:

<?php
if($vid == '') {
  $vid = urldecode($_REQUEST['vid']);
}   
include ('assets/flash/osflv_player/flash/flash.php');
flvheader();
flv($vid, -1, -1, '', '', true, true);
?>

This places a player on the page and autoloads and autostarts the video given in the page request (I think, I can’t remember the FLV Player args). We have it on a plain-templated page and call it in iFrames or GreyBox popups.

Ramsay

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Paulp Reply #5, 16 years, 11 months ago

The Flowplayer seemed to be a promising alternative, and a test setup at my web host, accessed outside MODx, played reasonably. I have been unable to make it work in MODx, though. The only thread in these forums on Flowplayer seems to have died with no real conclusion http://flowplayer.org/documentation/installation/index.html

What version of Modx are you using ?? you may need to use compatibility mode for the Flowplayer jquery if the version of modx your using is using mootools.

I’ve used a few things off that site with success with the latest release so always worth checking.
Have you tried turning off the quick edit and see if it then works ??

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j_p Reply #6, 16 years, 11 months ago

I’m using Flowplayer and it works fine, but I do have Quickmanager disabled - I tried it with it Quickmanager enabled and it didn’t work.

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eddygrove Reply #7, 16 years, 11 months ago

Wow, thanks a bunch for your quick responses. I guess my subject came out a bit provocative; wink

no offense.

I’ll have a go at your suggestions and report back. Thanks again!

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eddygrove Reply #8, 16 years, 11 months ago

@paulp: I’m using 0.9.6.3 and latest Flowplayer download. QuickManager already disabled.
Tried in FF 3.5.3 and Safari 4.0.2 on MacOS 10.5.8 and IE 8.0.6001 on Windows XP sp3.

What is compatibility mode? Can’t find anything on flowplayer site mentioning it.

I tried with a simple OBJECT tag (covered in Flowplayer demos), and that works in all three above browsers. I could definitely settle with that for now. Sorry for the whining, still curious though...

The javascript method code that didn’t work:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title>[(site_name)] | [*pagetitle*]</title>
<script src="mysite.com/assets/media/players/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.4.min.js"></script>
</head> 
<body> 
<a  
    href="http://mysite.com/assets/media/flowplayer.flv"
   style="display:block;width:425px;height:300px;border:dotted;" 
    id="player"> 
</a> 
<script language="JavaScript"> 
    flowplayer("player", "http://mysite.com/assets/media/players/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.1.4.swf"); 
</script> 

</body>
</html>

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Paulp Reply #9, 16 years, 11 months ago

http://docs.jquery.com/Using_jQuery_with_Other_Libraries

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eddygrove Reply #10, 16 years, 11 months ago

OK...I’m aware of the potential conflict with other libraries and the workarounds. I use it with jquery tools (also of Flowplayer.org) where I have scrollables that would otherwise conflict with e.g. AjaxSearch.

I don’t really see where that comes in in this case, though. Flowplayer js isn’t jquery, right? Where would I need to use jQuery.noConflict(); ?