I have been waiting for the new version to come out - I have flash videos on many of my courses, but the video player is out of date, so my videos will not play.

Is this supposed to be fixed with new version? If so, when is the new version out?

Is there a way to fix the current, outdated player, in my courses?

12.04.2009 02:59 Joseph Gallegos wrote:
I have been waiting for the new version to come out - I have flash videos on many of my courses, but the video player is out of date, so my videos will not play.Is this supposed to be fixed with new version? If so, when is the new version out?Is there a way to fix the current, outdated player, in my courses?

I am running .flv files in the latest version of 2.7 successfully.

Hi, drgallegos,

Actually, current build (2009.02.19) has FLV player with this problem fixed.

How do I upgrade to the new build? where do I find it?

I uninstalled my old 2.4, reinstalled from the courselab home page, the flash videos still do not work

Hi, drgallegos,

Please try to update objects (menu Module - Update objects).

Did that, unfortunately for me, it still does not work - the flash video files still do not play at all.

Just re-code the videos at the supported level, which is incidentally is I think the same as in a base XP PC.
OK so MOST PCs use player 9 or better, BUT!! the PCs in my organisation (that's about 2000+ PCs) 90% are on player 6 (as a coporate decision) with the users unble to update. So a whole raft of content doesn't work.
Using the latest and best isn't always a good idea, always go for the base specification that is compatible with 99% of the world.
If you want to change which version is used the module you should just be able to change the code in the modules xml after you've published it.
See
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_12701&sliceId=1
You'll want to change the classid.

I went to that article, but the class id they have on there is the same one on courselab; the player referenced was different, so I changed it to that player - still nothing.

Nick:
I saw some old posts about this as well, and tried those fixes - none of which worked. I even tried using the URL of the flash video file to re-embed the video - still did not work. It is the player - I just don't know how to upgrade the player manually via the xml file. I found the xml file in question, but the class id is not any different than "older" players' class id.

Any other advise? Here is the xml file code that is currently there:

sFlashObjectTag += '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" ';
sFlashObjectTag += 'id="' + argobj.pid + '_fvpobj" ';
sFlashObjectTag += 'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" ';
sFlashObjectTag += 'width="' + sWidth + '" ';
sFlashObjectTag += 'height="' + sHeight + '">';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="movie" value="'+sPlayer+'"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="quality" value="high"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="wmode" value="'+sWMode+'"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="swliveconnect" value="true"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="bgcolor" value="' + sBGColor + '"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '<param name="flashvars" value="'+sFlashVars+'"/>';
sFlashObjectTag += '</object>';
oFVPContainer.innerHTML = sFlashObjectTag;
}


Does that mean I have to go to each file/slide that has a video and change the code?

I went to that article, but the class id they have on there is the same one on courselab; the player referenced was different, so I changed it to that player - still nothing.