flash protocol and flashVars??

[Razorax]

Hi.

I'm desperately trying to get Boxee to correctly launch a flash player for a movie service.

Unfortunately, it requires some flashVars, and I can't find any documentation as to how to supply them from Boxee.

This would be the HTML code:

 <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://player.voddler.com/VoddlerPlayer.swf" width="1280" height="720">
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
                <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
                <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
                <param name="id" value="player">
                <param name="flashvars" value="videoid=2788190073758226675&cridid=1&token=5a0b014e63b1f141483fd522eda35b33">               
            </object>

But since the .swf doesn't use cookies, the

flash://mydomain.com/src=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.voddler.com%2FVoddlerPlayer.swf&bx-cookie=token%3D1ee0a91f74b4b9c270c844434a72330d%26videoid%3D2788190073758226675%26cridid%3D1;

Doesn't work :-(

Can anyone help me??

EDIT: I assume I need to use the bx-jsactions and then do some JavaScript code to instruct the .swf... but how?

[riegersn]

What the website/url for this video?

[Razorax]

As the original "html" part suggested, there isn't an URL for the video, but only for the flash-player, and that player takes videoId + authentication paramters as flashVars.

I think I might have something close to working with the following URL (one time use only):

http://player.voddler.com/VoddlerPlayer.swf?videoid=2788190073758226675&cridid=1&token=5a0b014e63b1f141483fd522eda35b33

But I'm not sure that is the "right-way" to supply flash-vars?

[riegersn]

This is irrelevant, boxee isn't a "flash player", its a browser with flash support. Additionally, the flash:// protocol, despite the name, doesn't mean its for playing flash objects.

Bottom line is if it works in your browser, it should work in boxee, the same way.

Take whatever url you generate for the voddler swf and use that. For instance with python:

item = mc.ListItem(mc.ListItem.MEDIA_VIDEO_OTHER)
item.SetLabel('Voddler')
item.SetPath('http://player.voddler.com/VoddlerPlayer.swf?videoid=2788190073758226675&cridid=1&token=5a0b014e63b1f141483fd522eda35b33')
mc.GetPlayer().Play(item)

In xml:

<media:content url="http://player.voddler.com/VoddlerPlayer.swf?videoid=2788190073758226675&cridid=1&token=5a0b014e63b1f141483fd522eda35b33" type="text/html" />

[Razorax]

Eeehhh...

So... to return to my original question.

How do you provide the flashVars to a flash-player using Boxee, when you're not using the html object tag?

I'm not entirely sure flashVars = query-string in HTTP?
Please correct me if I'm wrong!

And I'm still no where closer to understanding how it's suppose to work in the "flash-protocol".

But thank you for the educational examples on how to write URLs in either python or XML... something I would dare say I'm already quite capable of.

I can only assume that the flash-protocol introduced by boxee, is something more than an obscure way of writing a http url???

If the ONLY function of the flash protocol is to provide a protocol for supplying Boxee with 2 arguments (bx-cookie and bx-jsactions), then please say so... possibly document somewhere on the wikis.

[xmcnuggetx]

looks like flash vars and query string function the same (not 100%)

flashvars - http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/164/tn_16417.html
query string - http://blogs.adobe.com/pdehaan/2006/...actionscr.html

both look to be using LoaderInfo(this.root.loaderInfo).parameters to get the parameters (in actionscript)

[Razorax]

Thanks.
That helped me!

Though

Previously, in ActionScript 2.0, you could pass variables along the query string or using FlashVars and the variables would be available in _level0, in ActionScript 3.0, it is a bit tricker

Would indicate that they are not the same, it seems that the example he then lists should indicate that they are! Puzzling.

So far I'll simply put it in the query-string, and then cross my fingers for success

[xmcnuggetx]

that's stating the differences between actionscript 2 and 3. In actionscript 2 the variables would automatically be available in _root (_level0). In as3 you need to use the loader info. I think it's still stating passing via query string or flashvars is the same (as2 or 3).

[bartsidee]

You can find the appropriate boxee commands to launch rtmp streams in the included examples of the following bug report:
http://jira.boxee.tv/browse/BOXEE-9004

Note that boxee does not allow you to play authenticated streams that would require tcurl or swfplayer parameters.

[offtopic]
To bad the bug report was abandoned as duplicate as I think it would make a welcome addition and improvement of rtmp support
[/offtopic]