I downloaded the Flowplayer distro about a week back.
I'm using flow.embed to put a bunch of players on a page.
We've got Flash 6 and H.264 video, so I turned on the fallback feature.
[1] I wasted a lot of time because I passed the { fallback: 'flv' } parameter to Flowplayer (2nd parameter) instead of flow.embed (3rd parameter). It does say clearly in the docs that it's the 3rd parameter, but this is easily overlooked. Perhaps Flowplayer could have an error message "fallback is an invalid parameter; this parameter should be passed as the 3rd parameter to the flow.embed library").
[2] The Javascript libraries in the examples/ folder are outdated (except jquery). e.g. flow.embed 0.1 instead of the current 0.3. I needed to manually update flow.embed and flashembed to get fallback working. Such a waste of time. Could the current libraries please be included in the distro; perhaps they could go in a root /js folder instead of /examples/js, so the downloaded distro is ready for production use.
[3] We bought the $75 commercial licence. The guy who purchased it said we didn't get a download link during the purchase process.
[4] Looking for parameters to flowplayer is a pain. I manually had to click the different tabs. Could we have a page with all parameters please in alphabetical order?
[5] Flowplayer under Flash 8,0,20 fullscreen mode just expands the video to the Flash boundaries and then puts the great big "Flowplayer" logo over it. Perhaps don't show the fullscreen button if the feature is not available; certainly don't put a whopping big logo over a small video window.
[6] Flowplayer under Flash 8,0,20 with a H.264 video (no fallback) just keeps displaying the loading circle. It would be good to have an error message (default player behavior): "This video is in a newer, high-quality format. To play it, you need to upgrade to the latest Flash Player. Click here to upgrade to the latest Flash Player."
[7] Tried the player under Flash 6. It didn't work. May have been my Flash 6 install. Can't find what Flash versions are support on the website.
Other than that...
Many thanks for the fine work!
Our client's jaw dropped when he saw the fullscreen H.264 video.
I love your players and the flow.embed library.
It saved me days or weeks of work.
Thanks,
Taz