jamestflynn
Member
I recently purchased your big feature template and I like it but I am trying to incorporate the feature video using the pro-player and I get a "video is not available message" each time. I tried for all different types of video and external youtube and vimeo videos and they all got the same result. Please help.
Thanks,
James
jamestflynn
Member
What version of Pro Player are you using with your demo site and what version of wordpress are you running. I have the latest wordpress and according to the plugin page on the wordpress site that plugin is not working with the latest version of wordpress and I checked on the authors site and others have posted this problem but there had not been a resolution yet. I tried 4.5 and 4.0 as well on the latest wordpress and neither worked for me.
jamestflynn
Member
I checked and I am using PHP 5.3.1, WordPress 2.9.2 and the 4.7.7 Pro Player. I tested using a couple videos I uploaded locally to the site by:
[pro-player type=mp4]http://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/converted_video.mp4[/pro-player]
and I couldn't get that to work so I went to the Pro Player web site and he had a series of example videos to use so I tried a couple of those like:
[pro-player]http://vimeo.com/7532457[/pro-player]
And they all said "Video is not available". I set the Cache to 0, any other ideas you may have let me know and I'll try it.
On the plugin author's site there were a lot of users that were having the same issue but they did not go into detail as to what caused it or if they resolved it and how they did not post it so I am not sure if it is something to do with server configuration, compatibility or what yet. BTW, I am on an IIS server if that helps any.
Thanks,
James
vfxdude
admin
First off, the shortcode added should have a width and height parameter, like this:
[pro-player width="560" height="340"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqTWUzehCUM[/pro-player]
but that is not the cause of this problem, since default dimensions will be used if this is not specified. you can test to eliminate the cause.
1. Add the shortcode to a post/page to see if it works there.
2. Activate the default theme and check the post there.
3. Test with the shortcodes available here.
jamestflynn
Member
I tried all of the above and it still did not work, I deleted the plugin completely and went back to a much older version 2.8.6 of pro player and it worked without any problem. So there is something in there that is conflicting. But if the 2.8.6 works for now I am just going to keep it at that.
Thanks,
James
jamestflynn
Member
I am using Big Feature 1.3.4.3. I went through and tested every version of proplayer it looks like the break comes from 4.05 to 4.5. I think it has to do with this:
Session based XML playlists are replaced by DB based XML playlists
I am going to check to make sure all of the PHP XML extensions are in place and there are no MySQL conflicts that are causing the problem.
jamestflynn
Member
I resolved the issue, it was posted as a problem on the ProPlayer site that with the latest MySQL 5 install strict mode is on by default but the only resolution they had was to change the sqlmode for all databases on the server. That did not sound like a very good fix so I found a simple line code that you add to the mysql query in Proplayer's playlist-controller.php file. Just added mysql_query("SET SESSION SQL_MODE := ''",$connection); to take out strict mode specifically for that application.
The updated lines look like this:
// unfortunately stupid WP doesn't carry these details :S
$connection = mysql_pconnect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD);
mysql_query("SET SESSION SQL_MODE := ''",$connection);
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