I've done everything correctly.  When I load my content item, I see a solid white box where the player is supposed to be.  If I right click on that box, it says "Movie not loaded..." and it's grayed out.

So apparently, the plugin is loading a flash object, but it's not loading the video into it. My path is /images/stories/videos/  I also tried combinations of no leading slash, or trailing slash.  My file name is lowercase, as is the extension and no I'm not putting the extension in the tag. Also tried fooling around with the permissions all the way up to 777 for both the folder and the file, no luck.

What is wrong here?

What tags are you using?

Birger :)

{flv}myvideo{/flv}

As I am not currently running a Joomla! site, I can test it my self. But does AllVideos create the directory /images/stories/videos/ ?

Birger :)

I'm pretty sure I created that videos folder manually, don't remember..But the plugin lets you specify what folder so you don't have to use one called videos. I've been messing around with this thing for a while now, can't get the video to load!!!

Okay, so this is an optional part. Not sure you run some other scripts that can corrupt AllVideos. Would help some if you provided a live link.

Birger :)

tinyurl.com/2azryd

There's actually two video players I want to embed (one is for dialup and one for broadband) Also, I changed the background color to black, easier to see where the player is supposed to be..

Interestingly, I just added a youtube video to that page and it worked without a problem. It's definitely something about the local file playback, but what, I don't know.

Where did you get the .flv files, have you encoded them self, and what version of Flash were you using?

Birger :)

Yes I created them myself, these are On2 VP6 encoded FLV files. I know they work fine with Jeroen Wijering's popular flash player. So why they're not working with this plugin?

EDIT: Oh, and the flash version is 8

I contacted someone on the Joomla forum who was having similar problems and he said that his webhost does not allow any file=http:// references so he told me to try this:

Edit plugin_jw_allvideos.php, at line 52, the code begins for local FLV files

Change:
to:
also for the <embed> tag.

This worked for me! Just make sure you also have a trailing / in the folder location in the setup area for the plugin.

Looks like I'm not out of the woods yet. I just discovered last night that these videos are not playing in IE7!! (I was testing in Firefox before)

Can anyone tell me why they're not working in IE?