Player API is up - who knows how to use the DevKey?

zupraner · #1 9th August 2009, 05:14

http://www.livestream.com/userguide/...php/Player_API

Question: I'm trying to figure out how one uses the setDevKey function to pass the API key to the module. Does anyone know how this done?

kentor · #2 12th August 2009, 06:38

yes i want to know too. where exactly do you put setDevKey()?

paul167 · #3 12th August 2009, 11:10

The right moment to pass the dev key to the player is after you've received the "ready" event and before you set the channel and start the playback of the stream.

Cheers

kentor · #4 13th August 2009, 03:16

do you have an example? i still don't get it. none of the functions are interacting with the player

FVMK · #5 14th August 2009, 04:03

<html>
<head>
<title>Livestream API for web developers - example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
params = {AllowScriptAccess: 'always'};
function livestreamPlayerCallback(event){
if (event == "ready") {
player.setDevKey("YOUR_KEY_HERE");
player.setChannel("YOUR_CHANNEL_HERE");
player.startPlayback();
}
}
swfobject.embedSWF("http://cdn.livestream.com/chromelessPlayer/wrappers/JSPlayer.swf","livestreamPlayer", "400", "300", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", null, params);
function init() {
player = document.getElementById("livestreamPlayer");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()">
<div id="livestreamPlayer">
<h1>This page requires flash</h1>
<p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer">download flash</a></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

This _should_ work, but I doesnt (for me). Anyone seeing the problem here?
Of course I used my key and channel. Also swfobject.js and expressInstall.swf are placed in the same folder as the html.
Edit:
The code works fine if I run it localy, but once I upload it to our webserver it doesnt work anymore. I tryed to generate several keys to test, but none of them seem to work:
h1472988.stratoserver.net
h1472988.stratoserver.net/
h1472988.stratoserver.net/tst
h1472988.stratoserver.net/tst/
h1472988.stratoserver.net/tst/test.html
stratoserver.net
stratoserver.net/
stratoserver.net/tst
stratoserver.net/tst/
stratoserver.net/tst/test.html

I breakpointed the livestreamPlayerCallback function and found out that livestreamPlayerCallback is being called, but once it tries to run player.setDevKey the code seems to stop.

paul167 · #6 14th August 2009, 09:43

Thanks for the feedback guys.
It seems we had an issue with our HTML API, that is fixed now. Can you try clearing your cache and reloading your test page? If you right-click the player, the JSPlayer version should be 1.1.13.

Thanks

kentor · #7 15th August 2009, 18:30

great! works now

FVMK · #8 25th August 2009, 09:32

Here Im back again.
I have a serious problem with the HTML API on Internet Explorer.
The player loads and works fine untill you try to control it via JavaScript.
Unce I call the function player.play(); the player calls the callback functions in a loop.
Here is an example code I used to test this issue:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Livestream API for web developers - example</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
flashvars = { channel: 'livestreamapi43' };
params = { AllowScriptAccess: 'always' };
function livestreamPlayerCallback(event) {
if (event == "ready") {
alert("Player is ready!");
player.setDevKey("YOUR_KEY_HERE");
player.play();
}
}
swfobject.embedSWF("http://cdn.livestream.com/chromelessPlayer/wrappers/JSPlayer.swf","livestreamPlayer", "400", "300", "9.0.0", "expressInstall.swf", flashvars, params);
function init() {
player = document.getElementById("livestreamPlayer");
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload="init()">
<div id="livestreamPlayer">
<p>PLAYER HERE</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>

As you can see, I used the the alert function to pop up when the player is ready.
But once I call player.play() the player continuously calls the callback function.
When you delete the alert-line youll see that the browser freezes and consums a huge amount of memory.
Used most current IE with most current FlashPlayer.
Dont know how older IE-Versions behave.
Any way to fix this?

Also the code works fine with Firefox (dont know about Opera, Chrome, etc.)

paul167 · #9 25th August 2009, 17:23

Thanks for reporting this, we seem to have an issue with Internet Explorer and are looking into it.

I'll keep you posted.

paul167 · #10 26th August 2009, 12:06

Hi FVMK,

We've fixed the issues occurring with Internet Explorer. The latest version of the JSPlayer is 1.1.16, you can check it by right-clicking on the player.
Can you check if everything works out now ?

Thanks

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