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Hi,
I’m trying to embed videos from an external URL using FV WordPress Flowplayer 2.1.13. In the case when the flash player is used (e.g. when playing .mp4 in firefox) I run into a bug in flowplayer: URLs containing non-latin characters (either literally, or url-encoded) don’t get treated correctly by the flash code, and I get a “flash: Video file not found” error from flowplayer. This bug has been submitted to the flowplayer issue tracker:
– https://github.com/flowplayer/flash/issues/59 (seems to provide a workaround; how could this be included into FV wordpress flowplayer?)
– https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer/issues/162 (still open)So although this is clearly a bug in an external component, can you think of a quick workaround that would solve this problem in your plugin? I’m fine with editing whatever code is necessary. Where could I maybe add the “urlEncoding: true” option that is suggested in the newest posts in https://github.com/flowplayer/flash/issues/59?
Thanks a lot,
planck
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Hello Planck,
thank you for letting us know about the issue.
Indeed, there is a slightly messy workaround for Flowplayer 3 (this first link you posted), but it doesn’t work for Flowplayer 5 (second link you posted).
For now, we will add a warning about this into the video checker.
Thanks,
Martin
Hi planck,
Our simple recommendation here is to use only Latin characters for video file names (which as a general rule makes the whole internet run more reliably). I can see an argument for UTF-8 post URLs but for files, I’d stick to Latin.
This is from someone who speaks five languages, many with lots of non-Latin characters. Why? I like my files to load reliably on every device.
That said as soon as it’s possible we’ll add the upgrade to allow non-Latin filenames.
