Inline video

Wednesday 11 March 2009 9:30:05 am

Hey all,

I have an eZ Publish site up and running and everything is working, but there is one thing I can't figure out.

When I upload a video (flashvideo format) and I try to add it to an article, then it will display a link to antoher page where the video is showed. This works, but I would rather have the video inline in the article.

I tried changing embed to embed-inline when adding the video, but this doesn't make any difference. What am I doing wrong, I'm sure this must be available, right?

Tnx a lot, Michael

Thursday 12 March 2009 12:59:02 am

That seems weird, because there is video support (my problem is for other types of video as well) and I can see the video in a flash player, but it just won't display it inline.

When I click the link to the video, I do get an eZ Publish site, with the right design and even an eZ Publish video player, so all components are there, but just not inline?

Thursday 12 March 2009 1:14:22 am

It is a flv, so flash video. I create a Video/Flash Player contentObject for it and it works that way, except for inline video.

I will have a look at the template, see what I can do with it.

Tnx for the help!
Michael

Thursday 12 March 2009 7:05:54 am

Hey Noicokuna,

I didn't create the class myself, I used the eZ Flow example site, which contained that by itself.
But I think your example is better, because it is more universal and it should be, because it is going to be used on multiple sites, so I am going to try your suggestion.

So, I created a new class, with the identifier flash_player, and now I want to create a template, which will probably something like this (partly copied from eZ Flow file):

{def $siteurl=concat( "http://", ezini( 'SiteSettings', 'SiteURL' ) ) 
     $attribute_file=$node.data_map.file
     $video=concat( "content/download/",$attribute_file.contentobject_id,"/", $attribute_file.content.contentobject_attribute_id )|ezurl(no)
     $flash_var=concat( "moviepath=", $video )}
    
    {* Embed URL, which URL to retrieve the embed code from. *}
    {set $flash_var=$flash_var|append( "&embedurl=", concat( $siteurl, "/flash/embed/", $node.object.id ) )}

    {* Embed Link *}
    {set $flash_var=$flash_var|append( "&embedlink=", concat( $siteurl, $node.url_alias|ezurl(no) ) )}

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="{'flash/flash_player.swf'|ezdesign(no)}" width="448" height="354">
    <param name="movie" value="{'flash/flash_player.swf'|ezdesign(no)}" />
    <param name="scale" value="exactfit" />
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
    <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
    <param name="flashvars" value="{$flash_var}" />
    <p>No <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Flash player</a> avaliable!</p>
</object>

Now you tell me to put this in override/templates/embed (shouldn't this be embed-inline?), but which one?

This is my directory structure:

eZ Publish
- design
    - base
        - override
            - templates
                - embed
                - embed-inline
    - ezwebin_site
        - override
            - templates (currently empty)
- extension
    - ezwebin
        - design
            - ezwebin
                - override
                    - templates
                        - embed
                        - embed-inline

And the same goes for the embed.ini, which one should that be? If I search for embed.ini, I find a whole lot of them.