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mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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Hi guys!

I just found the shadowbox and I must say I love it!
I´m having some trouble though, I have made som movies that I want to display on my website. I already have the JW FLV player. If I only use the JW player it plays the mp4 files just fine, but when displaying it with shadowbox they are played with quicktime...

How/what/where in the shadowbox code do I need to tweak it, so that it will play the mp4 files with flash?

Thanks a lot in advance!

mjijackson

Re: mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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You need to alter the options.ext object to include mp4 in your flv array, like this:

var opts = {
// all the rest of the extensions from the source file here...
flv: ['flv','mp4']
};

Shadowbox.init(opts);

Shadowlurker

Re: mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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Thanks a lot! :)

Shadowlurker

Re: mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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In reply to this post by mjijackson

Sad to say... it doesen´t seem to work. :(
Anyway, while browsing the JW webpage the playlist catched my eye.

Check this page: http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?page=wizard&example=21

Is it at all possible to get shadowbox to initiate this player+playlist (and getting the JW player to use the xml playlist to get the files loaded to the player)?

Norgoth

Re: mp4 files supposed to open in flash... plays in Quicktime

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In reply to this post by mjijackson

Hi...i have the same Problem, but i cant find the File or Part where i must add this Code-Snippet.

Can you help me to find the right File and Part of it to play mp4 Files with the JW Flash Player ?
Thanks a lot.

Cheers

PS: Sorry about my bad english, thanks.

Gordon K

Shadowbox won't accept ext[] array changes?

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I've been having trouble getting Shadowbox to "see" my changes to the ext array. In this case, I want to display .java class files as plain text (which they are). In my <head> code, I defined the following:

var sbMimeMap = {
img: ['png', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'gif', 'bmp'],
swf: ['swf'],
flv: ['flv'],
qt: ['dv', 'mov', 'moov', 'movie', 'mp4'],
wmp: ['asf', 'wm', 'wmv'],
qtwmp: ['avi', 'mpg', 'mpeg'],
iframe: ['asp', 'aspx', 'cgi', 'cfm', 'htm', 'html', 'pl', 'php',
'php3', 'php4', 'php5', 'phtml', 'rb', 'rhtml', 'shtml',
'txt', 'vbs', 'java']
};

And then passed it to .init along with other options:

window.onload = Shadowbox.init( {
initialHeight:350
, initialWidth:450
, loadingImage:"loading.gif"
, handleException: "Shadowbox error"
, handleUnsupported: 'link'
, ext: sbMimeMap
} );

I tried passing the "mime map" both as a variable, and as an inline array, but with the same result: When I try to pass Shadowbox a .java file, it opens the Shadowbox window but doesn't load the file - and the browser then pops up a load/save dialog over the Shadowbox window, as if Shadowbox has rejected the file and passed it to the browser.

I think this problem occurs only when I invoke Shadowbox via the open() function in Javascript, not when I call it via an tag. Any suggestions? Many thanks for any help you can offer!!!