Javascript API in flowplayer

[joseluismg]

Hi,

sorry for the newbie question, I am new in using this plugin. Is there any Javascript API to use with flowplayer? More specifically I am trying to get a callback when there is a switch in the stream being played. What I mean is if there are calls to onStreamSwitch or any similar and if not if this is going to be in the added in the future?

many thanks!

[mangui]

Hi, it might be feasible, maybe @blacktrash could answer ?

[phloxic]

I assume the onMetaData, and onMetaDataChange clip events - http://flash.flowplayer.org/documentation/events/clip.html - would be the places to send clip.metaData http://flash.flowplayer.org/documentation/api/clip.html#properties

The events are fired, but flashls provided clips always have metaData undefined. - Aside: I wonder whether therefore setting clip.metaData to false to tell the player not to expect meta data would currently help in some problematic usage scenarios

Here is how this works (or should work) for the bitrate select plugin: http://flowplayer.blacktrash.org/test/brmenu.html

[joseluismg]

yes, exactly. Would it be possible to have a brmenu like this working with the flashls plugin?

Because I have seen this issue, but It seems open: #124

[phloxic]

@joseluismg - But the example deals with explicit URLs for manual selection. I have no idea whether and how flashls' API could be mapped to that.
If this can't be done from flashls' side I doubt that it will be implemented from the core player side in Flowplayer Flash - unless you do it yourself ;-)
We are planning to implement this for Flowplayer HTML5, espcially with hls.js (problem: doesn't work in Safari yet). But it will probably take a while.

[joseluismg]

@mangui do you think integrating the quality level selection is something feasible or something that will be included at some point? or as alternative do you plan to inlcude a javascript API to handle the quality externally
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[mangui]

that might be feasible, but you will have to do it yourself.
you can inspire from https://github.com/flowplayer/flash/tree/master/plugins/bitrateselect/src/actionscript/org/flowplayer/bitrateselect, which listen to custom bitrates property on Clip :
https://github.com/flowplayer/flash/blob/master/plugins/bitrateselect/src/actionscript/org/flowplayer/bitrateselect/BitrateSelectProvider.as#L279

there are commented codes available here to dispatch quality level to FlowPlayer : https://github.com/mangui/flashls/blob/dev/src/org/mangui/flowplayer/HLSStreamProvider.as#L125-L141

and then you would have to implement https://github.com/mangui/flashls/blob/dev/src/org/mangui/flowplayer/HLSStreamProvider.as#L525-L530

[joseluismg]

@mangui can you pm me, please? [email protected]

[joseluismg]

do any of you know any developer available to work in this feature? The company where I work is happy to sponsor this feature.