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11 years 1 month ago #92103 by DaveyKrebs
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Hi, I posted this previously but possibly in the wrong category. It would be useful to know if we're encountering a common problem or one that's unique to us.

We need to display some videos stored on our server to questionnaire respondents.

From what I've read, this should be fairly easy to achieve. I followed the basic instructions in the wiki (including deactivating the XSS filter) but the videos won't play.

I can get images stored on our server to display, and I can embed videos from youtube which display fine (unfortunately not an option as a work-around, as we need to keep the vids on our own server). The problem isn't with our vids themselves, as they display fine in other applications, and other flash vids downloaded from the internet and put on our server also won't play.

Can anyone shed any light on where the problem might lie?

Many thanks!
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11 years 1 month ago #92113 by DenisChenu
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What is your HTML for including video ?

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11 years 1 month ago #92114 by holch
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Yes, the code you are using would be good and also the format of the videos. Some might play in a browser without a player, others might need a player.

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11 years 1 month ago #92123 by DaveyKrebs
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Thanks for your interest.

The video format is flv (FLV1), simply because Limesurvey has a button for inserting flash elements. Similarly the code we used was just that generated when you click that flash button and choose a file uploaded to the server:
Code:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="movie" value="/limesurvey/upload/surveys/333312/flash/test.flv" /><embed pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" quality="high" src="/limesurvey/upload/surveys/333312/flash/test.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>

However, this doesn't work. The file doesn't even play in the preview box, and when I preview the question it simply shows a blank box where the video should be. Right-clicking on the box gives me the message "Movie not loaded..."

I tried some code I found for embedding youtube videos:
Code:
<object height="315" width="420"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5fP4emqw7O4?hl=en_GB&amp;amp;version=3&amp;amp;rel=0" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5fP4emqw7O4?hl=en_GB&amp;amp;version=3&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420"></embed></object>

This worked fine for the youtube video but not at all when I tried to adapt it to run a video off of our server.

In case it helps, we're using Version 2.00+ Build 121213.
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11 years 1 month ago #92124 by DenisChenu
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Try to update HTML with the hostname for host in:
src, value

Did you have something in the directory : /limesurvey/upload/surveys/333312/flash/ ?

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11 years 1 month ago #92125 by DaveyKrebs
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Try to update HTML with the hostname for host in:
src, value


Ok, I tried that, but no luck I'm afraid.

Did you have something in the directory : /limesurvey/upload/surveys/333312/flash/ ?


Yes, I had an uploaded test file (test.flv).
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11 years 1 month ago #92132 by holch
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You can't just throw a flv video at a website and expect it to play.

Have a look in google for "embbed flv in website". See here:

www.flvsoft.com/embed-flv-into-webpage/

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11 years 1 month ago #92141 by DaveyKrebs
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Many thanks holch. Converted the .flv to .swf and it works fine. Apologies for my ignorance about flash files!
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11 years 1 month ago #92151 by holch
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Good that we could be of assistance.

But that is why you should give as much information as possible when asking about help, because the detail about the flv file was pretty important. You might have received an answer a lot quicker.

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11 years 1 month ago #92156 by DaveyKrebs
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Yes, appreciated, although if you're quite a novice it's not always obvious what details you're forgetting to leave out.

Regardless, thanks for the help!
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