embedding flash video in greymatter 1.7.3

[tomymot]

good morning forum.
I have the following problem, I did a search but couldn't find any similar issue...so forgive me if I repeat a question and just link me away.

so the deal is. I want to embed flash video on my greymatter blog, using the following javascript+player
swfobject.js + flvplayer.swf

in my "static" pages is working properly, but when I try to embed in greymatter I do not see anything apart from Download Flash :-)

What I have done is that I have added the javascript code in the "head" part of each page

<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

and this is indeed coming out (I see it in the head source of generated page)

then I have the swfobject.js + flvplayer.swf files in greymatter folders (both primary and archive, to be sure)

and then I use following code in the ENTRY that I want to show...it is correctly interpreted (I do not see the text in the entry) but is doing nothing.

<p id="player1"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</p>

<script type="text/javascript">
var s1 = new SWFObject("flvplayer.swf","single","512","390","9");
s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","false");
s1.addVariable("file","kina4.flv");
s1.addVariable("image","standardpreview.jpg");
s1.addVariable("width","512");
[...]
s1.write("player1");
</script>

I have tried to link to kina4.flv (this is the file to show) by full url/relative url and by moving the file in all folders, but it looks simply is not running the script.

any idea? obviously I am not a code guru, but I could get the thing working fine in a normal HTML page on my site, not on greyforum and this makes me at a dead end.

if any idea,

thank you
t

p.s. the embedding tool is
www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=jw_mp3_player
pretty simple to be honest...

[tomymot]

by reading other posts, I have tried the following, insuccessfully.

in the header I have made full link

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.mystupidsite.it/greymatter/swfobject.js"></script>

and then I tried all possible variable "file"
www.mystupidsite.it/greymatter/archives/myfile.flv
/archives/myfile.flv
myfile.flv

and I wonder what I am doing wrong...looks like I am clueless :-)

ciaociao
t

[tomymot]

well...
for the people who is desperate about loading vids like me, I have solved with this embedding code in the entry:

<embed src="http://www.mystupidsite.it/greymatter/flvplayer.swf" width="512" height="390" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="file=http://www.mystupidsite.it/greymatter/archives/kina4.flv&displayheight=390&frontcolor=0xFFFFFF" />

however, I do not like it as neat solution and I would have preferred the javascript one..so if someone has ideas they are wellcome.

have a good night
t

[Carlos Phelps]

Something like this should also work and checks out as valid XHTML

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="/a/masthead/Header.swf" height="110" width="665">
<param name="movie" value="/a/masthead/Header.swf" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
</object>

Set the params to whatever you need for the flash in question.

Best of luck,
Carlos

[coldstone]

with javascript you have to be careful if it uses ampersands as gm will mess with those. However, if you put it into a different file it should have been fine, since Gm wouldn't process that.

Glad to hear you got it working, but it seems like it should have worked. Are those example pages real, or you could you post one for me to look at? Now you got me curious.

Thanks for posting the solution you found!

[tomymot]

Hi Carlos, thanks for the suggestion, but is quite obscure to me (did I mentioned I usually suck in coding stuff?)

Hi coldstone,

I will live with my solution for the time being, so indeed, I will answer your question for your curiosity (and of course I will be happy if you get something going properly) but do not do it for me, as (as I saied) I manage to make it run like this :-)

in any case, links are exactly as I mentioned them (I just substituted my real site with mystupidsite.it ...I didn't want to be accused of spamming :-) and I think my italian site is of no real interest here :-) )

in any case.

I have greymatter index in mysite.it/greymatter and the archive in mysite.it/greymatter/archives

the swf and js file I putted them in both directories to be sure.

I have the feeling the solution may lie in spaces inserted by editors while copying and pasting? this was my last idea...but didn't succeed to solve it yet.

ciao and good night
t