FLV video not playing in Cooliris embed wall

Question

I have a PHP file that generates a Media RSS file for the embedded wall. It reads images and video from our Amazon S3 bucket and signs the URLs before creating the RSS feed.

When the wall loads, images display perfectly. Where there should be video there is only an empty black square, when the video is clicked - still only an empty square. However when I click on 'Start Slideshow' the video plays ok. When the video finishes it will load another image/video and this displays fine. I assume when i click a video thumbnail the video should start?

Also cannot get Youtube videos to play unless I use this solution found on the cooliris developer forum

Anyone else notice this behaviour and have any advice / solution?

thanks

------------------------------- UPDATE ---------------------------------------------------

I have now added video thumbnails that should be showing and this shows the play icon but does not display the thumbnail jpeg. I use PHP to generate the rss feed as follows -

echo
            '
                <item>
                    <title>'.urldecode($subject).'</title>  
                    <media:content type="video/x-flv"  url="'.$file_name.'"/>
                    <media:thumbnail url="'.$file_name_thumb.'"/>       
                    <cooliris:data><![CDATA[
                    {
                        "mediatype" : "'.$row['file_type'].'",
                    }
                    ]]></cooliris:data>
                </item>
            ';      

And a similar way for images. Both image thumbnails and fullsize images display without problem. When I enter the link to the video thumbnail into a browser address bar the image is returned OK.

Images and video are loaded from different buckets in S3 storage and I have checked cross domain policy files and they look ok to me, but could this be a problem? Like I say though the video plays ok when cooliris is in slideshow mode.

Heres a link to a test page that shows the problem.

Answer 1

The embedded wall should support FLV. If you have a test page you can share with us, we can help you debug.

EDIT: The video does not render in 3D because there isn't a crossdomain.xml file hosted at your video site. That is, transcodedvideo.s3.amazonaws.com/crossdomain.xml/… needs to allow *.cooliris.com access. This is a limitation with the 3D library we use (PaperVision 3D). It works in slideshow mode because we simply add the 2D video to the Flash stage, without rendering it in 3D. We may revisit this in the future, so thanks for bringing up this issue.

Ron Yeh
Cooliris Developer