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Won't skip to middle of video

This flv file:

http://cdn.putlocker.com/r1KH3Z%2FaMY6kLQ9Y4nVxYk7mNHiQw%2F3IgGFIInDAh%2BL8GSLEix1l88XvllJ0kyMg1n5IirUGbSWeUTbnd%2ByI4fYDmUrZPRSILyivKOGswJFrSw8Cnh9GJWtz4Fx23i%2BjCqc4o1djbf9HdxPJnl4vMBQzKgnyrfCwuXDmSf%2FrrCLspEj0WJeGVH51%2B5LqeO2yikZN9w5GUrSoO9TxK%2BS5ot40mf028iiMfW%2FtVMWFfto%3D/8a49d9236f5317c786a2fe419f8351fd_sd.flv

Works fine in flowplayer and also if viewed on chrome with VLC installed, it can also skip to an unbuffered part of the file. However, in JWplayer it does not.

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JW Player

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That link seems to be generated based on IP so you must get it from this mrss:

http://www.putlocker.com/get_file.php?stream=WyJOVVkzTURKR1FVTkJNemRHTWpVM016b3hNelV5TnpBeE9USTVMalEzTnpVNll6YzJaamszTWpNd1lUWmpNV1JtTlRKak16VTRNamcwWW1aa1lqYzJPVGt3TldSalpXWmpZZz09IiwicmVnIl0

Inside the mrss you'll see the media .flv link, open that and you'll see seeking works with VLC. You'll also see it works using flow player here: http://www.putlocker.com/file/5F702FACA37F2573 granted they need a puesdostreamer plugin - i was under impression jwplayer came with one out of the box.

Also note, Flowplayer also can read this mrss fine, jwplayer cannot.

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JW Player

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Oddly, I also have a php file which sends headers as flv and jwplayer can't play it:

http://www.brianhare.com/jwplayer/putlocker.php

yet flowplayer reads it fine

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Ethan Feldman

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Can you provide a link of where you are trying to use the JW Player to play this file? Thanks.

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JW Player

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Here is an index of all 3 bugs:

http://www.brianhare.com/jwplayer/bugs/

Oddly, the psuedostreamer video was working (you could see the video but not skip forward) for jwplayer and then upon refresh it stopped working all together (just keeps loading animation )

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JW Player

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I found out the php streaming is buggy, and that I had to restart apache for it to load the movie for jwplayer. It still won't skip forward like flowplayer will though

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JW Player

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I installed/built the apache psuedostreamer module as the php hack seemed buggy. Still can't skip forward with jwplayer

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Ethan Feldman

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Thanks, we will take a look at these 3.

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JeroenW

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Just to elaborate on the three issues:

1) With RSS, we always load a player in the “primary” mode. That is HTML5 in this case. If you set “primary” to “flash”, the feed will work.
2/3) JW Player indeed does not support pseudo-streaming with a PHP script (these have bug, security and performance issues). We only support pseudo-streaming with a serverside module like mod_flvx. See more info here:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28855/pseudo-streaming-in-flash

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JW Player

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JeroenW, I have pseudo-streaming with http://h264.code-shop.com/trac their apache mod. I am not sure which one is more popular, but that's the one that came up when I googled.

I also tried setting it to flash only mode but I can't seem to get it to work. I also just emulated what I saw on the mrss example. You'd think it would fallback to flash but meh

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JeroenW

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With RSS, we cannot yet fallback because the RSS parsing happens in the respective player. Therefore, we need to make the selection for HTML5/Flash up fromt with RSS. It’s a player limitation we need to fix …

Regarding the Codeshop mod_264 module: we do support that one for MP4 videos (can it do FLV too?) . Can you setup an isolated example for it (no RSS, just one file)? Then I can check it out.

Just to be sure, you set the correct “startparam” right?

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28855/pseudo-streaming-in-flash

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JW Player

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Yes it does FLV, in my stream bug page I use an FLV:

http://www.brianhare.com/jwplayer/bugs/stream.php

I use:

<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("jwplayer_div").setup({
height: "400",
flashplayer: "jwplayer.flash.swf",
file: 'http://www.brianhare.com/jwplayer/bugs/vid.flv',
'provider': 'http',
'http.startparam': 'starttime'
});
</scrip

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JW Player

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I am using jwplayer to embed it into another swf, so I know it's flash only and yet it still fails to play the mrss link whereas flowplayer does.

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JeroenW

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Hmm, all your configuration options are for JW5, while I presume you use JW6. This is the setup you should use:

jwplayer("jwplayer_div").setup({
    file: 'http://www.brianhare.com/jwplayer/bugs/vid.flv',
    startparam: 'start'
});

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JW Player

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Yeah when I try to use it that way it says invalid license.

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JW Player

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Any update as to why I am getting invalid license?

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JW Player

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As for the Codeshop mod_264, I beg to differ on the startparam. When I installed it recently, I found that "start" doesn't work for me. However "vbegin" makes the video play from desired position. I don't know if there was a change of parameters along the way, but I just compiled the module out of the box. Thus Brian could try "vbegin" and see if it makes any difference.

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JeroenW

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I’ll check with codeshop – they may have changed their params indeed.

As to the “invalid license” question, did you re-download the premium player from our account?

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JW Player

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The issue was I was trying to use longtailvideo's own jwplayer.js (wanted it up-to-date asap) so I downloaded the source instead and hosted it on my site.

This fixed the invalid license issue. As far as pseudostreaming I think its fixed. I am not sure because of an update or not but seems to work.

The other 2 option still don't work.

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