Thanks David, indeed yes our movies are content objects, servable only by plone.. bon well this one might have to be one that gets away in the absence of a concrete requirement.
cheers very much -i On 21/09/10 11:29 PM, David Hostetler wrote: > Part of the solution to (2) depends on where the movie files are > hosted that you are playing with flowplayer. > > Once the plone page in which the flowplayer is embedded is itself > loaded, plone isn't really involved any further. At that point, plone > has done it's job of delivering the javascript and the swf that > constitute the flowplayer instance, and doesn't have any further > responsibility. If the movie file being played is hosted directly > through an apache server, I don't see why the streaming module > wouldn't "just work". > > However, if the movie file is itself _also_ a plone content object, > then Plone is responsible for delivering the movie bytes, and (as you > would expect) wouldn't be exposing the capabilities of any apache > streaming module. > > > regards, > > -David > > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 13:29, Ivan Price<[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> i have recently installed the very good collective.flowplayer product >> and have a question relating to pseudo-streaming.. the ability to scan >> through a large movie without waiting for the whole thing to download. >> >> i have everything working fine in in our Plone installation.. the >> appropriate files are automatically wrapped in the flowplayer flash >> control and everything is sweet. >> >> My question is regarding pseudo streaming.. I have a separate instance >> of flowplayer (3.2.4) and I have configured our apache web server using >> the H.264 streaming module described here: >> >> http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2#Configuration >> >> using my custom player config i can successfully scan through large >> movies like on youtube, but this doesn't work in the >> collective.flowplayer version. I'm guessing this is for 2 reasons; >> >> 1. the pseudostreaming.swf control is not loaded by collective.flowplayer >> 2. the plone HTTP server does not support streaming (fetching content >> from half way through the file) as the apache module i installed is not >> used at all by plone itself. (fyi, in our case, plone is behind an >> apache reverse proxy) >> >> problem 1 i think i can fix with lots of new entries in the >> site_properties sheet for flowplayer, problem 2 is more hard core >> though, and i would not assume is possible. my only reason for writing >> is that i notice there is included the pseudostreaming.swf file in the >> collective.flowplayer product, so maybe someone has done this before ? >> >> i'd appreciate any comments on this, even if it's "never gonna happen" >> >> thanks very much for a great product, >> >> -ivan >> >> ACTED.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Product-Developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers >> _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
