set autoPlay false on Flowplayer in jQuery

Question

I'm using jQuery and Flowplayer to turn links to FLV files into embedded videos like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    if($('a[type^="video"]').length > 0) {
        $('a[type^="video"]').each(function() {
            var video_path = $(this).attr('href');
            var video_box  = $(this).parent();
            video_box.html('');
            video_box.css('width', '680px');
            video_box.css('height', '460px');
            video_box.flowplayer('/sites/default/files/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf', video_path);
        });
    }
});

This is working fine except that all the videos start playing simultaneously. I've tried adding autoPlay: false several different ways, but so far none have worked. From the documentation it seems like I should be able to do it this way:

video_box.flowplayer('/sites/default/files/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf', video_path, {clip: {autoPlay: false}});

But that doesn't work.

Answer 1

@Kevin

You don't need an extra div surrounding the flowplayer-a-tag. All you need to do is set display:block on the a-tag.

So your code can be condensed to this:

    $('a[type^="video"]').each(function(i) {
        $(this).css({'width': '680px','height': '460px','display': 'block'}).attr('id', 'player-' + i);
        var player = $f('player-' +i, '../flowplayer.commercial-3.2.7.swf', {
            clip: {
                autoPlay: false
            }
        });
    });

Answer 2

You can pass flowplayer an object of options, one of which is autoplay, here is the documentation for this: http://flowplayer.org/documentation/configuration/

This is an example from the above page:

flowplayer("player", {
    src: "flowplayer.swf"
}, {
    clip:  {
        autoPlay: false,
        autoBuffering: true
    }
});

Flowplayer has tons of options you can set on initialization including event bindings for things like onPause and onPlay.

Answer 3

I got it to work like this:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('a[type^="video"]').each(function(index) {
        var video_path = $(this).attr('href');
        var video_box  = $(this).parent();
        video_box.html('');
        video_box.css('width', '680px');
        video_box.css('height', '460px');
        video_box.attr('id', 'player-' + index);
        $f(video_box.attr('id'), '/sites/default/files/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf', {
            clip: {
                autoPlay: false,
                url: video_path
            }
        });
    });
});

The key to getting the $f() function to work was to give it an id. The divs I was using didn't have ids so I gave them one with the line video_box.attr('id', 'player-' + index);.

I still don't know why I couldn't get the jQuery object.flowplayer() method to accept the autoPlay: false property. But I suppose using the $f() function is just as good. Thanks for the help.

Answer 4

Have you tried the syntax, that is used in the documentation? In your each loop you can do:

$f(this.parentNode, {src: "flowplayer.swf"}, {
  clip: {
    url: video_path
    autoPlay: false,
    onStart: function(clip){alert("Clip "+ clip.url);}  // attach event listener
  },
});

A side note: The line if($('a[type^="video"]').length > 0) { is not necessary, because jQuery will only loop through the elements, if there are any, otherwise it just skips the block.