super helpful. i did notice JW and You Tube and Daily Motion exposed these basic calls in their apis, didn't know they had to integrate the interface themselves. we're using bitgravity now, and i didn't see an API for their stuff. so JW seems like a reasonable way to go from here.
thanks again for the clarification. On Sep 2, 6:58 pm, Aran Rhee <aran.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > So swfobject just embeds your swf onto the page. The implementation of > whether you can control a certain swf (to play/pause etc) is down to the > individual swf player and if it has a JS API callable through > ExternalInterface<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/exter...>methods. > > Some video players like the JW media player have a JS API which you can call > from the host page. Others, likie the default Adobe FLVplayeback do not, and > the author whould have to roll their own external interface methods in their > swf file before embedding onto t a page. > > Here are some JW media player JS api tuts (which use swfobject 2.x) > :http://home5.inet.tele.dk/nyboe/flash/mediaplayer4/JW_API_TEC.html > > Here is the official API wiki > page:http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashApi > > Cheers, > Aran > > > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:53 AM, teamz <b...@zimbio.com> wrote: > > > i'm just getting my feet wet, and running into a fundamental problem. > > i'm simply trying to control the flash player from javascript, and all > > the old controls i used to use (player.play(), player.pause(), etc) > > seem to be undefined for the object. all i want to do is load the > > flash player and then mute or unmute it from javascript, and i'm > > hoping not to muck with flash code (which I don't know). > > > here is what i'm doing: > > > <div id="myObject"></div> > > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/ > > libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject_src.js"></script> > > <script> > > function playerCallback(e){ > > //i'm trying to play, pause, or mute the player > > //var obj == document.getElementById("myObject"); > > //i've tried obj.play(), obj.pause(), obj.mute(), obj.sendEvent(), > > they're all not existing properties. > > } > > > (function(){ > > var config = { > > player: "{$swf_file}", > > div: "myObject", > > width: "300", > > height: "250", > > version: "9.0.0", > > express: "{$swf_file}" > > }; > > var flashvars = { > > File: "{$flv_file}", > > Mode: "ondemand", > > AutoPlay: "true" > > }; > > var params = { > > allowFullScreen: "true", > > allowScriptAccess: "always" > > }; > > var attributes = { > > id: "myId" > > }; > > swfobject.embedSWF(config.player, config.div, config.width, > > config.height, config.version, config.express, flashvars, params, > > attributes, playerCallback); > > })(); > > > the player and flv file load just fine, but no matter i try a callback > > function, window onload event, grab myObject or myId, i just can't > > figure out how to get to the basic player controls. i enumerate > > through the object tag properties and don't see any relevant methods > > or properties to use. i also tried this using traditional embeds > > instead of swfObject and i'm running into the same basic problem, so > > probably i either don't understand the new flash api, or the > > functionality has been removed somehow. i have flash 10 installed, > > running firefox 3.5. > > > thanks in advance. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to swfobject@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to swfobject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
