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8 posts Started 1 year ago by alalonde87 Latest reply from tinycg
Hey Guys,
I am having trouble with JWplayer customization, I want to move the nav bar to float on top of the video footage like it would in the html5 player. Where would I even start to look into customizing the player? I could not find it on the http://ftp...
Thank you for help in advance,
Andrew
Hello alalonde87,
Assuming you're using 0.8.2, the file you want to look at is /path_to_your_mediacore_installation_dir/mediacore/mediacore/lib/players.py line 151.
vars = {
'image': thumb_url(self.media, 'l', qualified=self.qualified),
'autostart': self.autoplay,
}Say you wanted to skin it using some random ugly looking skin presented on jwplayer's website:
vars = {
'image': thumb_url(self.media, 'l', qualified=self.qualified),
'autostart': self.autoplay,
'skin':'http://www.longtailvideo.com/files/skins/graphite/5/graphite.zip',
}Ta-da! Now it looks black, boxy and ugly after you touch mediacore.wsgi or mediacore.fcgi and refresh your browser =)
Hey aicm, thanks for the reply, is there a variable that will switch the control bar from being below to overlay and autohide?
I guess that was the original question that I thought could be solved by changing the skin.
Andrew.
Hmmm... we don't have this feature at the moment. I'll see if we can squeeze this into 0.9 - if not we'll add it to the next point release. Having the ability to customize the player a bit would be good.
Hmmm... we don't have this feature at the moment. I'll see if we can squeeze this into 0.9 - if not we'll add it to the next point release. Having the ability to customize the player a bit would be good.
Yes, but this option is on the latest JWplayer version, it should be a param, like the skin param.
jwplayer website :
Layout
These flashvars control the look and layout of the player.
controlbar (bottom): position of the controlbar. Can be set to bottom, top, over and none.
dock (true): set this to true to show plugin buttons in controlbar. By default (false), plugin buttons are shown in the display.
icons (true): set this to false to hide the play button and buffering icon in the display.
playlist (none): position of the playlist. Can be set to bottom, top, over, right or none.
playlistsize (180): when below this refers to the height, when right this refers to the width of the playlist.
skin (undefined): location of a skin file containing graphics which change the look of the player. There are two types of skins available:
XML/PNG skins: these skins consist of an XML file with settings and a bunch of PNG images. The files are packed up in a ZIP, which improves the time it takes for them to load over the network. Building your own skin is extremely easy and can be done with any basic image and text editor. See XML/PNG Skinning for more info.
SWF skins: these skins consist of a single SWF file, built using Adobe Flash. This type of skin has been supported since the 4.0 player. Since SWF skins can only be built using Flash (a $500+ package) and since this skinning model can easily break, SWF skins are considered deprecated in favor of PNG skins.
We'll be adding skinning params to the interface for MediaCore 0.9 - most of this stuff you should be able to control via the plugin for JW in 0.9.
buzzworkers, the stuff I added there are actually those vars. You just have to keep the same format.
vars = {
'image': thumb_url(self.media, 'l', qualified=self.qualified),
'autostart': self.autoplay,
'skin':'http://www.longtailvideo.com/files/skins/graphite/5/graphite.zip',
}That would add a skin flashvar. If you need to add 'controlbar':'over', after the skin line (if you wish to use a skin).
It would definitely be a lot easier to configure via 0.9's interface, but if you need that to work right now, that's the only way I can think of doing it.
Is it now possible to do this from within 0.9?
I attempted to modify players.py at line 760 now it seems like, yet my addition of a skin file that is double-checked to be the right path doesnt appear to change anything.
Thanks.
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