So if you want to change the video via menu/js etc there are a few ways to go about it:
1) rewrite/re-embed the flash file with new flashvars etc. Check out Philip's great tut on swapping flash files via JS here (read from " Using an 'onclick' event to replace a loaded SWF with another SWF"): http://www.pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/load-onclick/2.0/index.html 2) find a FLV player that can take commands from javascript directly like JW media player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ ). It has a JS API which you can use to swap videos etc: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashAPI Cheers, Aran -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of yvonne Sent: Monday, 29 December 2008 10:32 AM To: SWFObject Subject: FlashVars etc. possible in HTML (not script area?) [or?] My objective: multi-video stop/start in one 'other' DIV location Hi everyone....great to be here....! I'll try to be concise and not write too long. OBJECTIVE: When I click on nav menu items, to have a different video play in another div on the single page site. ATTEMPT ONE (just to get videos to play): There's a lot of JQuery stuff on this test page so I tried and tried to get malsup media plugin to work with my player of choice: Neolao flv-player (http://flv-player.net) No luck other than to get all the variables, buttons to show up in the player. Only JWplayer would actually run the videos. I need to use NeoLao player... Basic embedding works fine with NeoLao player... this is the exact code that worked. And there's some very cool options on the site fot the player. This the options page for the maxi player which is the one that get's updated. There's also a JS driven one though I'd like to keep it simple for me at this point. And anyways, I will only need to STOP and START the videos automatically when I get to the 'switiching them' point. http://flv-player.net/players/maxi/documentation/ MOVING TO SWFOBJECT: It looks like I can use a player with SWFobject! Cool. um, I didn't know that. Though I'm relentless with problems and would love to get this going. SO: in the script portion I guess I do NOT way to have just ONE video stated...as I need them to change.... So how do I put the video desired in the HTML as a FlashVar Param etc..... ??? I'm quite in the dark on this. My step one.... get the videos working with ONE script instance if possible. (I have the entire site on ONE page with JQuery doing scrolling stuff etc. I guess I would need to have the HTML part hold the varables/params/FashVars...... is the possible/sensible?? Then after I get a bunch of divs on the page each with a different video in them. (right?) Then I need to call these to STOP and START (only one at a time - gulp!:--) at another div location on the page.... Well, that's it... Looking for an elegant way to do this.... is SWFobject what I need? Big thanks for sure for reading.... I'll never give up.... though help kinda needed... it's Sunday! Day 3! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
