This problem is most likely caused by not having your Flash Player in the right place within your system files directory. The first thing you will need to do is make sure that you have downloaded Jeroen's Flash Player by visiting http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player. Once you have downloaded this player, you will need to extract the contents of that file on your local machine. You should then see a file named flvplayer.swf. This is the player that the FlashVideo module uses out-of-the-box, and you will need to place it in your Drupal system files directory. But first, you will need to rename this file to Player.swf, since that is what the FlashVideo module searches for by default. The next part is most likely where people mess up... where to put this player. By default, the FlashVideo player will use the Drupal System files directory to search for all videos. NOTE: This does not mean the document root of your web server, or even the root of the Drupal install...this means the files directory within Drupal root install. So, for an example, if your Drupal installation is located at /public_html/drupal, this means that the files directory to place this Player will be located at /public_html/drupal/files.
Now you are probably asking.... "What if I don't want to place all my videos in the files directory but rather a subdirectory within the files directory?"... Well, FlashVideo has you covered there as well. To achieve this you will need to go to the FlashVideo Settings Administration page and then find the Output Directory. In this field, you can then place the output directory that you wish to store your files. For example, lets suppose that you want to have your video files placed in the /public_html/drupal/files/videos directory... Well, for this example, you would have videos as your output directory parameter within the FlashVideo Settings.
"Ok, so I have a sub output directory... where do I put my player now?..." Well, as of FlashVideo version 2.4, you will only need to place the Player.swf file within your root files directory, or in our example /public_html/drupal/files, however, if you are using a version before 2.4, then you will need to place this Player in any sub directory that the FlashVideo module is using as an output directory.
I hope this helps...
Ok Tried and failed
Hello there,
I downloaded from http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player currently JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 3.16 But when I browsed the directory I couln't find a file named flvplayer.swf. I assumed that it was the mediaplayer.swf file was the one I should use but I renamed it to Player.swf and uploaded to the server, but it doesn't work! Is there something I am missing here? I've till got the dreaded blank page when I try to view flash movies BTW I'm using it in a test Drupal 6 site, any Ideas?
Thanks...
PHP Parse Error
The main reason you'll be getting a totally blank white page is if PHP encounters a parse error when Drupal tries to include the "flashvideo-flash.tpl.php" file (or whichever template file depending on the type of video you're supposed to be viewing). I just spent most of the day debugging my Drupal and found out that this problem was occuring with me because the "flashvideo-flash.tpl.php" file had opening '<? ' short tags instead of the '<?php ' tags, and since PHP was configured to use only the proper '<?php' tags, it considered it a parse error when trying to include the file and processing halted immediately (hence the complete blank page). If you've configured PHP the same way then just edit the tpl.php file and set the '<?' tags to '<?php'. Otherwise check for any other parse errors if you've edited the file.
On the other hand when I place the flash player in the wrong directory or decided not to have the flash player at all, the area where the video was supposed to be placed was just blank but the rest of the page looked as it should so I think the description of the solution is wrong.
PHP/5.2.6 Drupal/6.3 FlashVideo/6.x-1.4-beta & JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER/4.0 on WinXP
Thanks fadirezq. You are right
Thanks fadirezq. You are right, I corrected the php tags in flashvideo-flash.tpl.php and the problem is solved. In any case this module is great.
I have the same problem, I
I have the same problem, I found mediaplayer.swf!
me too
Me too, same problem, exactly as they described.
private node
I contacted Travis about this and heard back from him today. Apparently, the problem I was having had to do with the fact that my site was set for uploads in the private mode where Drupal controls all uploads and access to the files folder, not in public mode. This means that all files it accesses and uploads, including the player.swf file, have to be uploaded by Drupal rather than via FTP or some other method, so that Drupal can have information about player.swf in its database. See http://www.travistidwell.com/node/286 for more information.