Video's not playing on new install

Hi, 

I've gone through all the possible permissions for the video files/folders 755 vs 777 this way and that... however, I can't for the life of me get video to play in the flash player. I've tested HTML5 as well, but it still tries to load the video in flash when I go through the default module. HTML5 does play the video however if it's played on the 3rd party module EVO Wall...

Any other suggestions on what to look for? RMS shouldn't be an issue, but just to confirm, it works fine. Chat loads and live video streams as expected. Video's upload fine, get processed, thumbs are generated, just when you view the video... it sits on "Loading" and nothing ever happens....

The video's and album data was inserted after the 7.1.0 fresh install which are from a 7.0.9 installation...

Thoughts?

are you using firefox?

No, tested using Chrome and Safari. Both give the Loading screen...

this was in another topic thread - here: http://www.boonex.com/forums/?action=goto&my_threads=1#topic/HTML5-in-Dolphin-7-1.htm

That seems to work ok for new videos.... old ones still show up as loading...

i think it said somewhere that the old ones had an issue if uploaded before the html5 was installed. In theory, if you uninstall the html5, the default flash player should kick in.

doesn't seem to be the case for me. Just tested that again...The only reason I installed the HTML5 one was because I was trying to find someway to play videos...

Can anyone answer, why can we not convert the old files to webm and have them playable in HTML5? When you upload video's after HTML5 is installed... what does it do to know it can play it? I can't really find any differences in the DB...

i believe the new ffmpeg.exe file is the convertor of the video files.

right... so if I convert all the flv's to webm should they not be able to play in HTML5 player?

theoretically - i would gueess and say yes.

Didn't make a difference converting them all to webm but when I converted them all to m4v HTML5 worked for all my older video's.

If you have shell access, you can do this buy running the following in your flash/modules/video/files/ folder:

$ for i in *.flv; do ../../global/app/ffmpeg.exe -i "$i" "${i%flv}m4v"; done

It will create/convert an m4v of ALL your flv files. If you want webm too just run the same command cept change m4v to webm.

Can anyone confirm what file types are needed? I really don't want to waste my space with 3 different video formats... Since HTML5 is enabled, can I simply remove the flv's and webm's?

the reason for the two files I believe is so if a person does not have an html5 compatable browser, then the default flash player is supposed to kick in - thus needing the flash version.

I have 3 files now for each video, an FLV, WEMB and M4V.... I'm not too concerned about the FLV as it's smaller but the M4V and WEBM are a lot larger...

I guess I'm no further ahead, since I'll probably get a lot of user's trying with older browsers and flash still does not work...

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looking in my video files list - i only have the webm and the m4v versions - so guessing one is for html5 and the other for a flash player.

 OK, here it goes..

when you had .9 as I did, in flash I had turned off "h264" codec to speed the process time those video were not processed into flash files as well, when the h264 is on, the video will play in both HTML5 if encoded with h264.

Go back to your old .9 if those files were done without h264 they will still play in 7.1 but with the old video player. (AlexT confirmed all this, looking for that post)

To test if you have the updated files since the final release, leave HTML5 player installed, turn off h264 in flash video player settings, upload video let in convert that way, after it processes and shows, go back to flash and turn the h264 back on and upload the same video.

when both are done, one should play in old player, and last one should play in the HTML5 player..

I hope you can understand my rambling.

I'm making demos for you to see.

 with h264 on, we get three, with off we get two

i have the h264 on and i only get 2 - thats not including the .jpg files

this is how it should work, same video, processed different ways.

http://webcamyourface.com/m/videos/browse/album/11-02-2013/owner/newton27

 I looked into this more after posting.

I cloned a 7.0.9 site, duplicated the database.

• removed obsolete modules
• non 7.1 modules
• deleted the modules in directions
• upgraded/patched the .9 site to 7.1
• perfect patch

now on to videos that were processed with the "older" ffmpeg, in the new HTML5 player, they DID NOT playback as you guys say.

I did find a way to correct it.

• remove the HTML5 module
• watch a couple of the older videos in old player
• go back to modules and re install the HTML5 module

Bam, all the older videos now playback..

ahh it's possible that may have worked for me... but my problem was I could not get them to play in the flash player at all...

They all do play now for me in HTML5 but I did have to convert them all