Flash problem with chrome

Hi Eduard,

we are facing the following issue. When the play button is pressed nothing happens. The play button is bound with the on-click of the .play_button class element that should just call the .play() method of the FV Player. For reading purposes, I’ve boiled it down to just the bare minimum implementation.

$(document).ready(function() {

    desktop_player()

    $('a.play_button').click(function() {
        $f(0).play();
        return false;
    });
})


function desktop_player() {
    $f("player", {
        src: "[deducted]/flowplayer-3.2.16.swf",
        wmode: "opaque"
    }, {
        clip: {
            live: true,
            autoPlay: false,
            provider: "akamai",
            stopLiveOnPause: false

        },
        playlist: [
            "[deducted]/manifest.f4m"
        ],
        plugins: {
            akamai: {
                url: 'https://cdn.foliovision.com/player/AkamaiFlowPlugin.swf'
            },
            controls: {
                fullscreen: false,
                height: 30,
                autoHide: false
            }
        }
    });
}

But hitting play doesn’t start the stream (or reveal any issues for that matter). If you select to allow the flash player then this will reveal the blocked flash plugin issue. If you then choose to “run the plugin at this time” it should start streaming (in 4-5 seconds)

Hello Nikos,

I see you use the old Flowplayer 3. I would suggest you upgrade to a HTML5 compatible video and latest FV Player.

I see you are using f4m for streaming, but you also have HLS streams available. In new FV Player you can play HLS streams even on desktop computers without Flash – it just must be a modern browser. The Flash fallback is still provided for old browsers. Yo can read more about the HLS requirements for desktop here: https://foliovision.com/player/video-hosting/hls

Thanks,
Martin

Hello Nikos,

I checked your site again and was able to listen to the radio without problems. I was testing in on desktop in Chrome 60, Internet Explorer 11 and Firefox 54 and 55. What browser were you using when you were unable to play the stream?

I also created this demo of your stream playing in FV Player on one of our test sites – http://lucia.foliopress.net/nikos-hls-test/ (login: foliovision, password: HiddenWebsite).