video format for slider

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1. 

   layers
   Member

   Good day,

   I have produced a video in .flv format and uploaded it into my media directory. I have modified the sizes according to your site documentation. It's a self hosted video. However, it's not showing up in the slider which is set to Type=Fading Slider and stage effect=Full.

   Any ideas as to why the video is not displaying?

   thanks

   Posted 6 months ago #
2. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello layers,

   The slider only supports youtube and vimeo. If you need to display flash then you may be able to get it working by using the Full + Raw HTML stage and a plugin such as JW player, http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/.

   Posted 6 months ago #
3. 

   layers
   Member

   OK, good enough. Thanks Elliott.

   Posted 6 months ago #
4. 

   stevemoran
   Member

   would love to know exactly how to get this working so I can use a jw played video on the front page slider.
   Can anyone help a newbee with the setup code for this?
   thanks

   Posted 6 months ago #
5. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello stevemoran,

   From what I understand with the JWPlayer it offers shortcodes to display your video like so,

   [jwplayer config="<Player name>" file="<your video>"]

   You could place that in the slide description of a "Full + Raw HTML" staged slide to get it to display. The slide will still require an image though so you can upload a 1x1 transparent image so it does not actually display.

   Posted 6 months ago #
6. 

   stevemoran
   Member

   Thanks for that - I could get it to work by putting in the full script code but it just sits to the left. It looks like this is going to be a bit tricky for my lack of coding skills as I wanted it to look exactly like the others that are "staged right" with description and "read more" button. Maybe i will have to bite the bullet and get a vimeo business account.
   thanks for your help anyway.

   Posted 6 months ago #
7. 

   Elliott
   Support

   You can position it by surrounding the shortcode with a div like so,

   <div style = 'position: absolute; top: 20px; left: 20px;'>
   insert your shortcode here
   </div>

   And then play around with the top and left values.

   Posted 6 months ago #
8. 

   Rickykalsi
   Member

   To see an example of how this was done have a look at http://www.matt-bird.com.

   Posted 5 months ago #
9. 

   Rickykalsi
   Member

   fv flowplayer also works really well.

   Posted 5 months ago #

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