How to get a thumbnail image w/an XML playlist?

I almost forgot to ask!

Possibly related, possibly not, the only puzzling issue remaining is that, after switching to the XML playlist, I can't figure out how to play sections that have already loaded in the timeline. It's currently making people watch through the whole video (it cannot advance in the timeline and, instead, goes back to the beginning of the video when you click ahead in a loaded portion).

Previously, when we'd been using Autogenerate and Short Description, this was not an issue - you were able to skip around in the loaded parts of the video with no problem - so I'm assuming that there's a way to put this into the XML coding.

I'm assuming (though not certain) that this is a separate issue from the pseudo streaming, because my impression was that pseudo streaming allows a person to skip ahead onto the unloaded portions of the video and load from there.

Hello,

Seekin trough the video is possible only with some server, for example with http pseudo streaming :

www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12534/video-delivery-http-pseudo-streaming

if it's not work for you this mean that the server module who allow this is not install, you have to see this whit your host, if it's not possible then remove the http params as it can not work an worst let think to the player that i can use it.

Hi,

Thanks for your help! You were right - our server did not support pseudo streaming, so we've changed to one that does. However, I'm still having an issue where videos can't be skipped ahead into either their loaded or not yet loaded parts. Is there something I need to correct in the XML playlist in order to get it to work?

bijou wrote: Hi,

Thanks for your help! You were right - our server did not support pseudo streaming, so we've changed to one that does. However, I'm still having an issue where videos can't be skipped ahead into either their loaded or not yet loaded parts. Is there something I need to correct in the XML playlist in order to get it to work?

This is normal -->It's not possible with the download streaming, but only with rtmp streaming and http pseudo streaming. see here :

www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12534/video-delivery-http-pseudo-streaming

www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12535/video-delivery-rtmp-streaming

We were attempting to use HTTP Pseudo Streaming, but my XML coding is likely incorrect. I'm wondering if I should switch to RTMP, though, as the problem might be that the FLVs in the playlist don't have metadata to support the HTTP Pseudo Streaming (I need to check if they do or not). Would I have to change from the following format for individual movies in order to get HTTP Pseudo Streaming or RTMP Streaming working?

<item>
<title>Title</title>
<description>Description</description>
<media:content url=" address.flv " type="video/flv" />
<media:thumbnail url=" address.png " />
<jwplayer:provider>http</jwplayer:provider>
<jwplayer:http.startparam>apstart</jwplayer:http.startparam>

</item>

Also, I removed the 'length,' which might be the problem. I'm not sure how to determine the length of any particular video by the number system used in the examples.

Your xml coding is good if your server support Http pseudo streaming

and

Your xml coding is not good if your server doesn't support Http pseudo streaming

so firstable you have to know what streaming is support by your server-->

as I understand in your previous post is that your server doesn't support http pseudo streaming so you have to change those lines of the playlist and make a cross on the seeking feature --> or change your host for the video part at least (same thing for rtmp)

Oh, sorry - I must have explained this confusingly. You helped us to figure out that our server did not support Pseudo Streaming, so we switched to one that does. However, I'm still having the same problems with Pseudo Streaming not working.

I should also mention - in case it's useful - that we're running on Apache.

We did already switch severs in order to fix this, but it's not working. What should we do?

Ok , and witch solution is used ?, as the http.startparam change according to the server used !:

* The H264 streaming module uses http.startparam=starttime for MP4 videos.
* Bitgravity uses http.startparam=apstart for FLV videos and http.startparam=starttime for MP4 videos.
* Edgecast uses http.startparam=ec_seek for both FLV and MP4 videos (presuming bytes for FLV and seconds for MP4).
* Limelight uses http.startparam=fs for FLV videos.

I'm currently using the second (Bitgravity):

http.startparam=apstart
(for FLV videos)

I haven't actually tried the others for FLV. I'll experiment with the Edgecast and Limelight and see if one of them works! Thanks!