FLV Embed (with video sitemap)

Latest version:
1.2
2008.07.18

FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV) into your blog using Jeroen’s FLV Player.

For commercial use and implementation, you need to purchase a license. I can help you with that and provide technical support if desired.

If you want information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has also written an excellent article which you can find on his site.

First of all, I do know there are already quite a few plugins that does similar things but I decided to make my own plugin for several reasons:

to enforce a standard plugin tag style (all of my other plugins use the same tag style)
no bells and whistles, this plugin embeds an FLV file and does it the easiest way
uses highly portable, extensible and future proof tags
XHTML compliant for those who cares about validation

Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports Google video sitemap generation, the first WordPress plugin that does it for you! ;)

FLV Embed in action

Video sitemap

Features

uses simple, intuitive tags to generate Flash video (FLV) movies for your posts
supports video sitemap generation
standards compliant: valid XHTML
many options are configurable, such as autostart, show/hide control bar, player colour, poster image, full screen button etc.
highly interactive admin option panel for player configuration
supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content
supports outputting poster image for RSS if desired
accessibility: requires Javascript to display FLV player, but will prompt user to enable Javascript when disabled
accessibility: prompt user to download latest Flash player if it is not installed or too old
accessibility: no annoying “click to activate” for IE users

Usage

This plugin uses one universal, standard tag style:

[flv:url width height]

url - the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
width - width of the FLV movie
height - height of the FLV movie

Jeroen’s FLV Player supports poster frame so you can turn on this feature via options if desired. The following two examples show FLV embed with and without poster frame.

Without poster frame
The poster frame feature is turned off by default.

Example input:

[flv:/video/demo.flv 480 368]

Example output:

With poster frame
In order to use this poster frame feature, you will need to turn it on via options. Once turned on, the player will look for preview image that share the same filename as the embedded FLV file. For example, if your embedded FLV file is “demo.flv”, the player will display “demo.jpg” as preview image. By default, the filetype of preview image is “jpg”, but this can be changed via options.

Example input:

[flv:/video/demo.flv 480 360]

Example output:

Version 0.3 onwards
Starting from version 0.3, it is possible to have your poster image at a different location than your FLV files. To achieve that, an optional 4th argument for the input tag and a new option $flv_posterpath were introduced. Below shows the tag syntax that should be used to provide a poster path:

[flv:movie poster width height]

movie - the URL of the FLV file, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
poster - the URL of the poster image, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
width - width of the FLV movie
height - height of the FLV movie

It is recommended that you try different settings for $flv_posterpath (found in option panel) and poster argument to have a feel how they work. There are several different ways how you could combine $flv_posterpath and optional poster path tag parameter to tell the plugin the poster location is not the same as the flv location.

If all your poster images are put within the same directory but not the same as the FLV files, change $flv_posterpath to point to your image directory, and no poster argument is required when using the embed tags. Make sure all the poster images have the same filename as the FLV files. If your poster images are scattered all over the places i.e. not within the same directory and not necessarily has the same filename as your FLV files, then use the poster argument to indicate where the poster image is.

The plugin detects the path used in the tags to determine if $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath should be used. In cases where absolute or site relative path are given as argument for the tags, $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath will have no effect on the output.

Users without Flash or Javascript
Unfortunately, about 2% of your users might not have Flash installed and about 10% of them might not have Flash 8 or above according to Adobe. For these users, the ufo.js will detect and output appropriate message that prompts these users to download and install latest Flash player onto their computers. Here’s an example screenshot that show you how this works:

Flash accessibility

While most modern browser supports Javascript, some users are too afraid that Javascript will screw up their computer so they turn it off just to be safe. This becomes a problem because this WordPress plugin relies on Javascript to display the FLV Player. To solve this problem, “noscript” tags are used to prompt these users to enable their Javascript and refresh the page for the Flash player to show up. Here’s an example screenshot:

Javascript accessibility

Text only output:
By default, this plugin will output text that reads “[See post to watch Flash video]” for your RSS feeds only. If you wished you could display the poster image in your RSS feeds by setting $flv_posterinfeed option (see below) to 1.

Demo RSS feed

Sitemap

Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports video sitemap generation. In order to see the video sitemap option panel, you need to turn on the sitemap feature under your FLV Embed option panel.

The plugin will try to create a video sitemap file in your blog root but this might not be successful depending on your server configuration. If the plugin is unable to create the video sitemap file for you, then you will need to manually upload the video sitemap file to your blog root, chmod it “664″ (or “666″ depending on your server configuration) and tell the plugin where to locate your video sitemap under options.

Video sitemap settings

Custom field data are used by the plugin to generate the video sitemap. If you have been using FLV Embed in the past, you can tell the plugin to insert missing custom field data for all published post by clicking the “Update Custom Fields” button within your video sitemap option page. This will also update any existing custom fields should there be any noticeable changes.

Automatic custom field insert can be disabled on a per post basis by putting [flv:skip] at the end of your blog post. Each time video sitemap is rebuilt successfully, Google will be pinged about the sitemap updates automatically. This plugin will try not to ping Google more than once per hour (as per Google’s suggestion), but you can override this by manually pinging via the “Force Ping” button found in sitemap option panel.

Click on the demo below to have a look how the generated video sitemap will look like. You might want to “view source” to see the actual XML content.

Demo video sitemap

Options

Starting from version 1.0, you can change just about everything this plugin does using the plugin option panel. Below list some of the parameters that might be confusing for you when changing different options.

FLV Embed settings

$flv_useposter: 0 to disable poster frame, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image
$flv_posterinfeed: 0 to show text only output in feeds, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image in feeds
$flv_imagetype: Preview image extension, can be “jpg”, “png” or “gif”
$flv_posterpath: Path to poster images, trailing slash required
$flv_flvpath: Path to FLV movie files, trailing slash required
$flv_backcolor: Background color of the FLV Player *
$flv_frontcolor: Texts / buttons color of the FLV Player *
$flv_lightcolor: Rollover/ active color of the FLV Player *
$flv_screencolor: Background color of the display of the FLV Player *
$flv_logo: URL to watermark logo that will be displayed at the bottom right corner
$flv_link: URL to go to when the logo is clicked
$flv_overstretch: Defines how to stretch images/movies to make them fit the display.
- “true” will stretch them proportionally to fill the display
- “false” will stretch them to fit
- “fit” will stretch them disproportionally to fit both height and width
- “none” will show all items in their original dimensions.
$flv_largecontrols: 0 to disable, 1 to make the controlbar twice as large for visually impaired users
$flv_showdigits: 0 to hide the digits, 1 to show the digits for % loaded, elapsed and remaining time in the FLV Player
$flv_showicons: 0 to hide icons, 1 to show the play/loading icon in the middle of the display
$flv_showfsbutton: 0 to hide fullscreen button, 1 to show fullscreen button
$flv_show_stop: 0 to hide stop button, 1 to show stop button
$flv_showvolume: 0 to hide volume button, 1 to show volume button
$flv_showcontrolbar: 0 to hide control bar, 1 to show control bar
$flv_autostart: 0 to disable autostart, 1 to enable autostart (strongly discouraged as it’s annoying from a user perspective)
$flv_bufferlength: Number of seconds an FLV should be buffered ahead before the player starts it
$flv_volume: Startup volume for FLV Player

* These settings can be found in fullscreen.php as well which set the player appearance in full screen mode for older Flash users

Installation

Download and extract the “flv-embed” folder
Upload the “flv-embed” folder to your WordPress plugin directory, usually “wp-content/plugins”
Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
For video sitemap feature to work properly, you should follow the instruction here

Upgrade

Deactivate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
Remove the “flv-embed” folder in your WordPress plugin directory
Follow the installation guide above

Download

FLV Embed plugin 1.2 for WordPress 2.5+ (67kb .zip)

If you are using older version of WordPress, please download FLV Embed 1.0 from here instead.

This plugin has been downloaded 14799 times since May 9, 2007
( 74 times since version 1.2 )

If you like this plugin, express your love by donating and sharing this plugin with your readers!

Support

If you have any questions, suggestions, or found any bugs in this plugin, feel free to post them in your comments. I’ll try my best to answer them but there’s no guarantee, so don’t be disappointed if you do not hear back from me promptly. :/ Always include a URL to the problem page whenever you are asking for help, it will make it easier for me to figure out your problem. Lastly, if you find this plugin useful and feel like donating some money for my effort, please use the PayPal donate button above, thank you! <3

FAQs

I keep getting “Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.” message even though I have the latest Flash player. Why?
It is very likely that wp_head() function is missing in your theme’s header. To fix this, put the following code into your WordPress theme’s header file (usually header.php, under Presentation -> Theme Editor), right before the </head>:

<?php wp_head(); ?>

Why doesn’t my flash video stretch properly?
You need a better encoder, or you can also try different settings for $flv_overstretch option.

Why are those ugly embed code showing up on my category, tags etc. page?
This is because those entries do not have their excerpt defined, and WordPress is trying to generate one for you based on the post content, and you happen to have the FLV embed tags at the top of the page! Unfortunately, I have yet to fix this problem because WordPress does not provide an easy hook for excerpt handling and I would need to literally hack WordPress to get this fixed. I will try to put this on my todo list but in the mean time, you can fix this yourself by manually adding excerpt to those posts affected.

How can I change the location of the logo?
Unfortunately you cannot, by default the logo will show at the top right corner. You might be able to manually add transparent padding to your png logo to shift the logo to where you want it to be, though it is not recommended.

How can I align the video in the middle?
Put the following code into your theme’s stylesheet (for easy way of doing this, see MyCSS):

#player1, #player2, #player3 {text-align: center;}

Is (insert feature name) supported by this plugin?
If you know that a certain feature is supported by JW FLV Player but is not supported by this plugin yet, feel free to make a request. Otherwise, it might be hard for me to provide such functionality especially those related to player’s functionality and appearance.

How can I embed a video from YouTube?
Use the YouTube URL as the file argument when using the embed tags, e.g. [flv:http://youtube.com/watch?v=fLV3MB3DpWN 480 360]

How long will it take for my videos to show up in Google’s search results once I submitted my video sitemap?
Nobody can tell for sure, but Google has definitely started putting video sitemap into action i.e. indexing the flv and including them as search results. Each new video added to the video sitemap can take as little as a day or two to show up in the search results depending on your site’s crawl rate.

I have duplicate entries in my video sitemap?!
Check the post with duplicate entries and manually delete the “flv” custom fields that are either empty or corrupted.

I really like this plugin, what can I do to help?
It will be highly appreciated if you can donate whatever you think this plugin is worth, or you can also spread the love by sharing this hopefully useful plugin with your readers. boogie

History

1.2 [2008.07.18]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.16
Added: Custom FLV player location support
Added: YouTube video support
Added: Google Analytics support
Added: Video smoothing option
Added: Show download button option
Added: Optional raw embed code for RSS
Changed: Several options in admin panel to be more user friendly
Fixed: wmode transparency issues
Fixed: poster image issues with non FLV files (e.g. mp4)

1.1 [2008.04.22]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.14
Added: New video sitemap appearance
Added: Auto remove invalid FLV files from custom field during custom field update
Changed: Admin option panel for WordPress 2.5+
Fixed: Only published post will be included in the video sitemap

1.0 [2007.12.30]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.12
Added: Admin option panel
Added: Video sitemap support
Added: Option to show/hide volume button
Added: Option to show/hide stop button
Added: Option to show large control bar for visually impaired users

0.3.2 [2007.05.31]

Added: Option to show poster image in feeds

0.3.1 [2007.05.19]

Fixed: poster path problem

0.3 [2007.05.10]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.7
Switched to SWFObject instead of ufo.js
Added: Option to show/hide logo with link
Added: Option to set poster and flv movie path
Added: Option to show/hide icons
Added: Option to set volume
Added: Optional tag parameter for poster path

0.2 [2007.02.16]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.5
Added: Option to show/hide controller bar
Added: Option to change buffer length
Added: Option to set overstretch
Fixed: IE display problem

0.1 [2007.01.09]

Initial release

360 responses so far ↓

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Sergey // Apr 11, 2007 at 12:24 am

eyn - you rock! the plugin is very elegant.

Now the problem - when two videos are put on same page, neither shows a poster. When viewed separately, each post shows video just fine, with poster.

http://videojibe.com

I am at wits end. Help!
Niels // Apr 9, 2007 at 10:31 am

I’m using this great plugin and had to switch to version 0.2 to avoid the problem with IE, however, using this nwe version caused my WP not to return to website when, for instance when I have added a comment. Therefor my visitors won’t go back either. Do you or anyone else have a idea what could cause this.

I narrowed it down to this plugin, because if I deactivate this plugin, the above problem is gone. I really like this plugin so I would like to find a solution. Many thanks for your respons in advance.

Cheers,
Niels
Jason G // Apr 7, 2007 at 4:21 pm

Hello,

Im having problems with the player, Iv installed it in my plugins folder on my ftp and activated it. Do I leave the the four files in that same folder? or do I take the player and place it in the root directory. I did that and it shows the player but I cant get any videos to play. Please Help

Thanks

Jason
cristi // Apr 7, 2007 at 7:07 am

hello
I’m testing my new web site with FlvPlayer and I don’t know how to add a poster frame to the video. The code looks like this :

embed src=”/video/flvplayer.swf?file=/video/Baby Goin Crazy-new.flv&autoStart=true”
width=”425″ height=”350″ quality=”high” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash”
pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer

Can anyone fill the blanks for me ?

Thanks

cristi
cristi // Apr 6, 2007 at 4:41 pm

hello
I’m testing my new web site with FlvPlayer and I don’t know how to add a poster frame to the video. The code looks like this :

Can anyone fill the blanks for me ?

Thanks

cristi
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Lee.org » Installed FLV Embed Plugin // Apr 3, 2007 at 5:30 pm

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Kagliostro // Apr 1, 2007 at 12:50 pm

Hi

your plugin is really fantastic. I would know if there is a way to use it in the sidebar, or, better in header to create a… movie-header ;).
Above all it’s simply fantastic plugin!
Compliments!
Trish // Mar 29, 2007 at 10:57 am

I am a beginner. I use dreamweaver and I ftp the pages to the temp website. I downloaded the flv_embed folder. When I open the folder I find three php files and one flash file (hence I am lost). Please tell me the step by step of what to do, and maybe place that on your website. Basically “How to embed the viewer in dreamweaver for dummies like me:)

Thanks
Trish
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Dickie // Mar 23, 2007 at 11:15 pm

nvm. I fixed it. Thanks for the plugin! lol Im donating some money for the cause!

you rule!.

Dickie
Dickie // Mar 23, 2007 at 10:11 pm

I got your plugin to work on the main content page. But when I click a single page. the player doesnt show up? Any ideas?
Dickie // Mar 23, 2007 at 12:42 am

Hi Eyn!

I saw your reply to Shawn and Geoff, the problem with the category is that most theme display the_excerpt which strips off any tags i.e. return text only. If your post has the “optional excerpt” that you can fill in for each WordPress post, it will display that excerpt instead of taking text directly from your post. To solve this problem, you should either fill in the optional excerpt textbox yourself while writing your post or you could do what Geoff did, that is to edit your theme’s files that is related to category page by replacing the_excerpt with the_content.

Unfortunately I cant seem to get this flash player to work when you click it as an individual post ie. the title bar, search, or a category. I tried this person’s plug in http://mac-dev.net/blog/?p=3 which works with, Flash Video Player created by Jeroen Wijering. I tried yours, but for some reason I cant get it to work.

I want to do what Shawn and Geoff did but I don’t know which files to change the _excerpt with the_content. Then I think it will work fully. I have WP version 2.1.2

Anyone with ideas would be great! Because I am lost!

Thanks,

Dickie
dave gold // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08 pm

hey man, thanks for the plug. i really want to get into using flv on my blog, it would be great. i downloaded it, acitvcated it. but now im lost

im ready to right my first post using video. my flv location is http://www.scotlandorbust.com/deeper.flv

but i dont understand how and where on my wordpress dashboard to load the video. thanks a bunch.
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Seth // Mar 17, 2007 at 11:01 pm

Thanks for the reply and fixes. I had the mime problem running on a Windows 2003 server. Adding the mime type fixed it.

Great tool.

Seth
eyn // Mar 17, 2007 at 1:29 pm

gcruz, mac or PC it doesn’t matter, I believe. For overstretch, if things doesn’t work as intended, go with “fix” for overstretch option.

Seth, the FLV file you linked to does not exist.

michael, if I have the time I’ll definitely add that feature. :)
michael // Mar 17, 2007 at 4:18 am

Solid plugin - Works great! I was able to get it up and running with little trouble.

I’d love to see custom poster location in the next release. Even being able to specify the url of the picture - just like its associated flv - would be ideal.

cheers
Seth // Mar 15, 2007 at 3:56 am

Hi,

Im playing around with you script. It is neat. But I can’t seem to get the FLV file to play.

Every thing seems to work fine but the video won’t play. The player pops up in the right size. But when you click on play nothing happens.

The little loading swirl just turns and turns. File size is only 650.7kb

Test post is here…
http://www.raceidaho.com/totalaccess/?p=5

I’ve double checked the URL…
[flv:http://www.raceidaho.com/totalaccess/video/test.flv 320 240]

Any ideas on what I’m doing wrong would be great.

Thanks in advance.
gcruz // Mar 11, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Great Plugin. overstretch doesn’t work for me, it just shows black bars around the edges presenting the video in its original size.

I’m on a MacBook Pro using WP 2.1.2.
angke // Mar 10, 2007 at 10:57 am

oh man i wish i could donate you for your valuable time and effort that you have spent to create this awesome plugin but i am so penniless ..
Lee.org » Installed FLG Embed Plugin // Mar 8, 2007 at 5:38 pm

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Boom // Mar 6, 2007 at 9:25 am

I’m sorry, wrong link
http://waarvanakte.eu/wordpress/?p=643

It;s not about the first clip, but about the second one after ‘test:’
Boom // Mar 6, 2007 at 5:39 am

Hi,

This plugin works fine in Firefox… but IE does not play the swf…

http://waarvanakte.eu/wordpress/?p=649

Can anyone help me with this?

Thnx
eyn // Mar 5, 2007 at 1:16 am

Stephane, I’m not too sure what the problem could be. I’ll add in alternative poster location support in the next version so hopefully it can solve your problem.

Shawn and Geoff, the problem with the category is that most theme display the_excerpt which strips off any tags i.e. return text only. If your post has the “optional excerpt” that you can fill in for each WordPress post, it will display that excerpt instead of taking text directly from your post. To solve this problem, you should either fill in the optional excerpt textbox yourself while writing your post or you could do what Geoff did, that is to edit your theme’s files that is related to category page by replacing the_excerpt with the_content

Greg, I don’t know if this FLV Player support steaming server, from what you said I’m thinking no. You might want to request such a feature to Jeroen seeing he’s the developer of the player.

Tennessee Mom, glad to know it works great for you! :)

jan, regarding the overstretch issue, I found out many people have problems with any setting other than the default “fit”, mostly due to the missing FLV meta tags that tells the player its dimension. I’ll most likely change this plugin’s default overstretch back to “fit” in the next version.
jan // Mar 3, 2007 at 6:57 am

… got it. kind of missunderstanding. overstretch must be set to false to have the movie stretched proportionally. j
jan // Mar 3, 2007 at 6:30 am

hi again.

Isn’t it possible to have the movies stretched proportionally in fullscreen mode?
I have put overstretch=true in the embed.php and in the fullscreen.php but it isn’t working.

thanks for help, j
Tennessee Mom // Mar 2, 2007 at 5:57 pm

thanks for the great plugin! It was easy to install, setup and use for a code-challenged person like me. It works great, thankyou!
Shawn // Mar 2, 2007 at 11:28 am

Geoff,

While I’m no PHP pro, I know enough to be dangerous. Would it be possible for you to explain a bit further where I might look to in WordPress to make the fix you mention above?

Thanks,
Shawn
Geoff // Mar 2, 2007 at 3:00 am

Found the problem: the player does not work when called from the_excerpt, only from the_content. the_excerpt strips out tags, and it also calls the filters for the_content when the_excerpt is created dynamically. My workaround was to edit my theme to use the_content instead of the_excerpt when making category lists or returning search results.
Geoff // Mar 2, 2007 at 2:00 am

What I’ve noticed is that posts that are returned from category lists and searches are stripping out the tags from $output in flv_embed function. These are the same posts that are shortened and ended with “[…]” if they are past a certain length. Somewhere along the way the content is being filtered and the tags are being removed.
Geoff // Mar 2, 2007 at 1:35 am

I too am having the same problem as Shawn above. The player works fine when displayed on the front page, or if the post is shown individually. But when the player is displayed on a category page I see the “Get the Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] //” problem. Clicking on the title of the post and viewing it individually makes the player work again. Any ideas?
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Greg // Feb 27, 2007 at 11:03 am

eyn,
Your clean player is great but I’m unable to get it to work with my FLV streams. Has anyone gotten it to work with an rtmp:// extension? My FLVs come off of a flash enabled server and I can’t get them to work from there. If I move them to another server and use an absolute path to there with an http:// location, they work like a charm. Any ideas?

Thanks
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Shawn // Feb 26, 2007 at 4:45 pm

Quick question… I’ve got both the quicktime and flash embed plugins installed and working, with one small problem. If I view post with embedded movies by selecting a category or by viewing search results, I get the “javascript is off” text output, rather than the video box. Otherwise, on the home page, and individual post pages, all displays just fine. Currently, I have the javascript output uncommented to avoid it showing. Is there anything else I can do? Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Shawn
Shawn // Feb 26, 2007 at 1:26 pm

I’m having an issue with your plugin. It works great with one little glitche. If I click a “category” to view the post within that category, all movies that should be showing as they do at the top of this page show the javascript error message of it being off. On the home page of the site, all movies show the player window and on the individual post page, it show fine. It’s just on the category pages or if I’ve searched for a post, I get the same javascript error output with the search results as I do on the category pages. Does that make sense? I tried to explain as best I could.

I’m having the same trouble with the Quicktime version as well.

For now, I have removed the text error so that it doesn’t show.

Any help would be great. I can send you a link to the site through email, since it’s part of an internal site that we use for fun.

Thanks,
Shawn
Stephane // Feb 25, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Hi,

thanks, I will look into mycss.

But for now I have an other problem. I can’t get the poster frame to show up. I changed the variable to 1 in flv-embed/flv-embed.php.

Here is one example of code I start with:

Putting all that code works but I can’t align it in the middle in WordPress.

So, I put this code:

[flv:http://justepourrire.streamtheworld.com/video/fd1593101a7866c31244b1c8436c6588_10796.flv &imgURL=http://justepourrire.streamtheworld.com/video/img/fdfce5bde7b73c0550e716f7eb1f0533.jpg 425 350]

Now it’s align in the middle but no preview image. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks again for your time!

Stephane
Dmitry // Feb 24, 2007 at 9:07 pm

Thank you! I am looking forward to it. And great job on the player and the plug-in, they both work like magic for me the player is much better quality than blip.tv eventhough they are very similar. Thank you again.
eyn // Feb 24, 2007 at 8:22 pm

mark, first of all regarding the extra white space problem, it most likely have something to do with your theme’s CSS, in particular CSS rules for div containers. I didn’t change the XHTML markup for the new 0.2 version so it should look the same old way as 0.1. Also, I tried to reproduce the same problem you described but I couldn’t, the plugin works just the way it is supposed to be. I highly doubt rewriting the flv tag instead of editing the old one will make a difference, you might want to check if the problem lies with your browser cache.

jan, thanks for bringing that up, you are absolutely right, it’s a coding mistake on my part! :P I’ll have that fixed in the next version.

Heliologue, thanks for the tips! Indeed the code is still escaped just by modifying wp-include/template-functions-post.php. Also, kinda off topic but I don’t like how WordPress started to add unnecessary <p> tags to your div container whenever there’s a line break (not a problem in WP 2.0+), it really screws up many of my posts with div container and now this site is no longer XHTML valid due to this issue.

Ethan, glad to know you fixed the problem!

joetke, I don’t really enjoy your attitude. Jeroen is offering his player for free, so am I with this plugin, if you don’t like it just don’t use it, there’s absolutely no need to throw your sarcastic comment around. If you really want to offer constructive comments, explain your problem nicely and cool developers will fix it for you.

Dmitry, yes it is possible to have poster in a different location. I’ll probably think of a way to implement custom poster location in the next release.

Stephane, glad you fixed your problem! When you get more familiar with playing with CSS you might find this plugin useful.
Stephane // Feb 24, 2007 at 4:37 pm

Ok, please erase my comments. I got it, it’s in style.css. Duh!

sorry about all this

Stephane
Stephane // Feb 24, 2007 at 4:32 pm

Ok, sorry for reading the other comments to fast. I see I have to add the code

#player1, #player2, #player3 {text-align: center;}

to my theme css.

ela.css, is that where I should add the code? Where in there? Sorry, I don’t know much about all this coding. I go by trial and error. Mostly errors, ;)

Thank you for your time.

Stephane
Stephane // Feb 24, 2007 at 2:44 pm

Thanks for a cool plugin!

But I can’t align=”center” my videos, how come?. They stay align to the left what ever I do.
Dmitry // Feb 24, 2007 at 12:19 pm

Hi, I was wondering, is it possible to have the poster frame jpg on another server? I am hosting the video somewhere else and don’t have a way to upload jpg files to the same folder where they have my flv. Any way I can specify a path to the pic?
Thank you for your work and for your help.
travelbert.com » Blog Archive » Steve’s Video Introduction // Feb 24, 2007 at 6:54 am

[...] The video area is opening very soon. Here’s a first test of the Wordpress-Plugin FLV Embed: [...]
joetke // Feb 23, 2007 at 1:42 pm

What you stated about the “excellent” Jeroen’s flash player is not actual in my Mozilla 1.7.12 browser. It doesn’t work at all and keeps reloading on an on the same movie. That remains the case when attempting to view it in full screen….reload again…..I’m sure that Jeroen’s player ignores simply how to manage cache compared to Youtube and al…
Eventually I got the first frame displayed through page reload but couldn’t view the movie yet.
It’s a pity really to make a plugin based on a not-so-completely-debugged player available. Now is it enough not to encourage you to go further by forgetting to make a donation ?
Yes!!! Others plugins work flawlessly in my beloved Mozilla 1.7.12.
Ethan // Feb 22, 2007 at 5:09 am

I think the problem is that I have installed wordpress into a folder yet setup the index.php to point to my domain root. When I switch the index.php back to the folder root, flv plugin works.
Ethan // Feb 22, 2007 at 12:25 am

An update to my other comment / question:

I managed to get the plugin working on ethantan.org (running on wordpress 2.05) but I am still unable to get it running on ethanrecommends.com (running wordpress 2.1).

This doesn’t seem to be the issue as I notice you’re running 2.1 here as well. Help, anyone?
Ethan // Feb 21, 2007 at 11:02 pm

HI. The plugin isn’t working for me. It doesn’t show up. I have tried looking through the comments but haven’t found a similar problem. Can anyone suggest something?

[flv:http://ethanrecommends.com/flvplayer/video.flv 130 70]

If you test the link, the file is there but the plugin doesn’t show up in posts. Help anyone?