[Plugin: JW Player for WordPress – Flash & HTML5 Video Player] Videos not working in Firefox

@LongTail Video
OK something sorted! Not only did your Playlist adjustment make it work but the default video (which for some reason was number 2 in the list) plays in Firefox!!! The three other will not… On Safari all play ok. Thanks.

It did work before so any idea why I had to make this setting now for it to work? I have had problems with player list not saving the list before so have recently avoided it.

Regarding Firefox in general. Not sure if you know about CloudFlare but it is not a normal CDN. The requests for the website goes though it first but as you say it could be thats something gets changed so I try asking them.

@stephenpayne,

Glad to hear the playlist is working again. The option to set the location of the playlist changed in the JW Player and the WordPress plugin was briefly out of sync. Your custom player likely had the old option set which is why it stopped working and likely why resaving it fixed the issue.

I’ll be interested to hear what CloudFlare says. I really want this to work for you.

Thanks.

@LongTail Video
Had an idea as re-saving one custom player made something work on Firefox – I re-saved them all. Now the single video ones (as per original example) completely work on all browsers including Firefox.

That just leaves me with the older posts with player lists used as Firefox currently only works on one of the videos in the list and not them all. Other browsers are fine.

Suspect there is little to gain by checking with CloudFlare. Will test some more.

Any further thoughts about this?

@longtail: if you mean the admin-backend – it disapears from both, my and the default player.
regards

@LongTail Video
Actually Firefox not working on single videos again…

@longtail:
MY player:
https://cdn.holospirit.eu/stream/?file=https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4&start=0
https://cdn.holospirit.eu/stream/?file=https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4&start=0

jwplayer("jwplayer-1").setup({flashplayer:"https://cdn.holospirit.eu/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf",width:"640",height:"390",controlbar:"bottom","file":"https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4","image":"https://holospirit.eu/spm/https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4","wmode":"transparent","skin":"https://holospirit.eu/wp-content/plugins/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/skins/holos.zip","playlist.position":"none","playlistsize":"200",events:{},config:"https://cdn.holospirit.eu/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/configs/holospirit.xml"});

default:
https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml
https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4

jwplayer("jwplayer-1").setup({flashplayer:"https://cdn.holospirit.eu/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player/player.swf",width:"400",height:"280",controlbar:"bottom","file":"https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4","image":"https://holospirit.eu/spm/https://gutenberg.tv.s3.amazonaws.com/flv_low/FS0011_geforscht_100705.mp4",events:{},config:""

where comes the streamer from?

@stephenpayne,

Can you provide a link to the video that was working and then stopped working? This is very odd.

@holospirit,

I’m still not sure I follow.

When opening the media overlay, a file will only have the streamer field if it’s an RTMP file.

Alternatively, you can predefine a streamer and provider while creating a custom player. These fields are located under the Advanced Settings tab while the player is being edited.

You can also define them in the Additional Flashvars field which is also located in the Advanced Settings tab.

These are the places the streamer can be configured. Which one has “disappeared” for you?

Thanks.

@long: updated the latest update for wp and copied and changed to my settings. seemts to work now – but not youtube again in my ff ??

@LongTail Video
I believe the problem is now solved. With the other glitches sorted I have used the .mov file only.

As from what you mentioned H264/AAC .mov files will work as flash on Windows I have used this file as the one and only file and not used the HTML5 at all. This does now work on Firefox on both Mac and PC. It continues to work on all the other browsers. It also works for iPhone/iPad.

The problem may have been Firefox trying to use the HTML5 file which is where I had previously supplied the .mov file and I see this is not supported in Firefox.

Given this is a nice simple solution it does beg the question as to why I would need to use the HTML5 option? Am I missing something?

Many thanks

@holospirit,

Can you provide a link to where a YouTube video isn’t working correctly?

@stephenpayne,

Glad to hear you got it working. The html5 option is there for additional flexibility, particularly if you were using RTMP streaming which doesn’t work in html5 mode at all.

Thanks.

@longtail: after the last update all is working fine now ?? thanks ??

No Problem. Glad to hear you got it working.