I see. This appears to be a JW Player-specific attribute. I’ll see if I can just pass any JW Player parameters over to the JW Player plugin. I created an issue for it on Github. https://github.com/kylegilman/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/issues/153
Video.js hasn’t implemented pseudo-streaming for Flash yet and MediaElement.js supports it in a different way. It also should only matter when the Flash player is loaded, which at this point is essentially limited to Firefox on Macs. Are you having problems with mp4s in other configurations?
That was easier to implement than I thought it would be. If you add a startparam to the KGVID shortcode it should work with JW Player in the next plugin update.
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adka89
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Just pulled the “video-embed-thumbnail-generator.php” off your open source version and tested it. Nicely done man, my mp4 playback and seek fine now. That was quick! Much thanks for this.
Any ETA on the stable plugin update, or do you recommend we follow your dev releases?
If you’re going to use the Github version, make sure you grab the rest of the files or there could be some unusual behavior. The update should be released through the WordPress repository within the next couple days. I’m just waiting on some new translations.
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adka89
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Hi again, so far the jw player shortcodes work like a charm. But I found out that the embedded videos (in iframes) do not have the same attributes passed to them. So, my embedded mp4 videos is not able to pseudo-stream. Any way to get them to work in the embed players as well? Thanks.
Mmm. Yes, but that won’t be as simple. I don’t think I can get that in the next update.
And can you verify that you’re only having this problem with Firefox on Mac OS? It really shouldn’t be an issue for anyone else unless you’re using FLVs.
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adka89
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Mmm. Yes, but that won’t be as simple. I don’t think I can get that in the next update.
Thanks, in the meantime found a workaround though by adding the attribute as a default.
And can you verify that you’re only having this problem with Firefox on Mac OS? It really shouldn’t be an issue for anyone else unless you’re using FLVs.
Actually, I was facing the pseudo-streaming issue (on JWPlayer flash players) in Windows using Chrome, but replicated the problem in IE and Firefox as well. Encoded videos were MP4 files with faststart.
Are you setting JW Player to use Flash as its default rendering mode? I definitely recommend setting it to HTML5 unless you have a specific reason not to.
Did you edit the plugin code to add the psuedo-streaming attribute as a default or did you do it some other way?
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adka89
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I’m using Flash at the moment. I’m considering HTML5 but I hate those custom context menu that JWPlayer offers. At least for the Flash one, I can disable right click.
Yes, I only added the “startparam” attribute into the plugin code (jw_shortcode) since that’s the only extra shortcode that I needed to work on the player and iframe embeds for now.
I didn’t notice that custom context menu in the HTML5 mode. The development version on Github disables it now if you’ve disabled right-clicking in my plugin’s settings page.
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adka89
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Just tried it, seems to be working fine. Context menu for the HTML5 player is disabled on this one. Thanks a bunch for your support!
The version on Github now has an option to set arbitrary custom attributes for all videos in the settings page. That should solve the problem of embedded videos not having startparam settings.
