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Asked 28 Feb 2011 18:29:06
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28 Feb 2011 18:29:06 Paolo Bartoloni posted:
Hi guys,
I installed the plugin with extension manager and restart Dreamweaver. Everything seems to work perfectly until I preview in browser: do not see anything even a poster frame. In addition, video player, I joined the sliding through behavior connector menu: preview in the browser do not see anything, only a back button.
Thanks in advance.

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Replied 01 Mar 2011 16:06:24
01 Mar 2011 16:06:24 Miroslav Zografski replied:
Hello Paolo,

Please, provide a link to your page and/or the code of the page in question.

Regards,
Replied 01 Mar 2011 19:52:04
01 Mar 2011 19:52:04 Paolo Bartoloni replied:
Hi Miroslav,
this is the link of the page
www.marchevolley.org/tv/format-html5.html

I work on a Mac with Dreamweaver CS4
Replied 03 Mar 2011 15:41:31
03 Mar 2011 15:41:31 George Petrov replied:
Hi Paolo,

Please make sure you have turned in Dreamweaver Preferences, Code Format the Line break Type to CR LF (Windows)

Then recreate your page again.

Greetings,
George
Replied 12 May 2013 00:00:39
12 May 2013 00:00:39 Simeon Nartoomid replied:
I have this same problem 2 years later. The video player appears in design view in DW, but nothing at all appears in either Firefox v20.0.1, IE 8 (using WIN XP Pro SP3 so cannot get IE later than 8), or Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m.

DW was already set for Line break type CR LF (Windows) so this was not my problem.

I have tried everything. The dmx script had originally placed all the script and css tags/links ABOVE the head tag, so I fixed that but still nothing.

I have checked all file references, made sure it was all uploaded, everything is in place where it should be.

I found another thread on these forums and tried putting this in my site's root htaccess file:

AddType audio/ogg .oga
AddType video/ogg .ogv .ogg
AddType video/webm .webm
AddType video/mp4 .mp4

This did not make any difference either.

I have the Miro OGV and WebM conversions configured in the video player and the video files are on the server.

I'm using standard html 5 <!DOCTYPE html>.

I have had no problems at all with an HTML5 JW Player on same server (shared Hostgator apache running linux).

My test page is here:

www.cosmicconsciousnessonline.com/index-DEV2.html

The video should appear at the very top of the page just above the [h1] tags.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Simeon

Replied 12 May 2013 18:29:50
12 May 2013 18:29:50 Vulcho Vulev replied:
Hello Simeon.

Can you please edit the following lines in your code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/dmxHTML5VideoPlayer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/projekktor.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Styles/dmxHTML5VideoPlayer/applicious/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/jquery-latest.pack.js"></script>


Should become:

<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/jquery-latest.pack.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/dmxHTML5VideoPlayer.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ScriptLibrary/projekktor.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Styles/dmxHTML5VideoPlayer/applicious/style.css" />


Regards:Vulcho.
Replied 12 May 2013 20:04:53
12 May 2013 20:04:53 Simeon Nartoomid replied:
This change now brings up the player, but the video does not load.

It was sitting sitting there with the pre-loading animation for a bit then started flashing, showing the pre-load animation then not, then shows it again, etc.

I de-selected "autoplay" and "loop" and now what happens is it brings up the poster, but when you click the image to play the video it acts as if there is no video, flashes to black stage then right back to the poster.

This is where it is now at link I posted for test page.

UPDATE:

I just pulled up the videos in my browser to check they were available on the server, which they are.

The webm version will not play, it just skips from beginning to end as if there were no duration yet it reports over 5 minutes of duration as there should be.

I am wondering if the dmx html5 player is for some reason trying to play the webm version in Firefox instead of the mp4 version. I'm not sure why this would be if it is because mp4 should be the video choice for a major browser on a pc.

I have no experience with webm, so I am not sure if this is normal behavior for it in Firefox or not. If not, then perhaps something went wrong with the Miro conversion.
Replied 12 May 2013 22:28:29
12 May 2013 22:28:29 Simeon Nartoomid replied:
It turns out that Miro was creating defective WebM videos, I switched to a video I created with DVDSoft's free WebM converter and it works now.

However, this means that the dmx html5 video player is choosing to play the WebM version of the video instead of the MP4 version in a browser.

Does anyone know what the logic is behind this design?

UPDATE:

I found the WebM Open Source Project... explains everything and I agree this is a good design feature!
Replied 13 May 2013 06:53:01
13 May 2013 06:53:01 Vulcho Vulev replied:
Hello Simeon.

Can you provide me with detailed info about your video?
You can use software such as :
MediaInfo

Regards:Vulcho.
Replied 13 May 2013 15:19:34
13 May 2013 15:19:34 Simeon Nartoomid replied:
Thanks Vulcho, you probably did not yet see my most recent post when you posted this. I got the video converted OK using DVDVideoSoft's free WebM converter and it works good now!

Thanks,
Simeon
Replied 01 Aug 2013 17:03:10
01 Aug 2013 17:03:10 Anthony Silvey replied:
I can't get the examples to play from the product page...on the ipad. Interesting.

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