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Hi Dave,

Sorry to miss checking post original post. :-)

Doy you get the issue fixed?

It would be JavaScript conflicts issue. Not sure about your flasher player. For normal flash player, it uses JavaScript.

For example, the following is one flash player (using swfobject.js).

	
		<title>Video Preview</title>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
		<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
		<script type="text/javascript" src="/cms_services/js/swfobject.js"></script>
	
	
	<script type="text/javascript">	
		var targetSWF = "/cms_services/street/video_240x180_standalone.swf";
		var skinSWF = "/cms_services/street/sesame_video_control_skin.swf";
		
		var configURL ="/cms_services/services?action=player&type=VIDEO&uid=<%= request.getParameter("uid") %>";
		
		var so = new SWFObject("/cms_services/street/loader.swf", "videoplayer", "300", "300", "9.0.115.0", "#FFFFFF");
		so.addParam("menu","false");
		so.addParam("wmode","transparent");
		so.addParam("allowScriptAccess","always");
	
		so.addVariable("targetSwf", escape(targetSWF));		
		so.addVariable("configUrl", escape(configURL));
		so.addVariable("skinUrl", escape(skinSWF));
		
		so.addVariable("jsShareMethod", "showShareDialog");
		so.addVariable("jsFavoriteMethod", "flash_addToMyStreet");
				
		so.addParam("menu","false");
		so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
		so.addParam("allowFullScreen","true");
		
		so.write("videoplayer-container");
		window.document.videoplayer.focus();
		RightClick.init("videoplayer","videoplayer-container");
	</script>
	

It would be simple to debug JavaScript.

Jonas Yuan
Liferay Portal 5.2 Systems Development
Liferay Portal Enterprise Intranets

Edit: I didn't notice that there were multiple pages to this thread, oops. The text below assumes that you were embedding the flash using HTML rather than SWFObject, so feel free to ignore it if it doesn't apply to you.

For an actual solution, can you post the Javascript that winds up in the source code so we can see how the parameters wind up being set for the SWFObject? It could also be a problem with double-escaping.

Yeah, I'm using HttpUtil.encodeURL() to do it. That should work, right?

I believe so.

I came to the conclusion that the value wasn't escaped, because you indicated that you could copy-paste it directly from view-source. That URL-encoded value should not be something you can paste directly into your location bar to download the file. If you're manually escaping it before copy pasting into the location bar, I jumped to the wrong conclusion.

Just to verify, you're wrapping it with HttpUtil.encodeURL(), what you see in source should look something like this:

<param NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="paramName=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%2Fc%2Fdocument_library%2Fget_file%3FfolderId%3D1%26name%3DDLFE-1.mp4">

If your view-source does resemble the above, you can try replacing the ampersands with & (so no URL encoding) to see if that works better. I've encountered functioning examples which embed URLs into FlashVars use & rather than URL encoding (though I admit I do not know why because an ampersand is clearly there).

If you go that route, the result would look something like this:

<param NAME="FlashVars" VALUE="paramName=http://localhost/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=1&amp;name=DLFE-1.mp4">

If you're using a regular parameter rather than the FlashVars parameter (another potentially incorrect conclusion that I came to based on the information provided), then taking out the whole URL encoding should work.

<param NAME="paramName" VALUE="http://localhost/c/document_library/get_file?folderId=1&amp;name=DLFE-1.mp4">

If that doesn't work, I do remember a problem with some versions of Flash not using any of the cookie data stored in the browser (so it accesses everything as a guest user), as this was a problem with an older version of SWFUploader that we used for Liferay. However, this would have to be a situation where the video you are trying to view is protected by permissions.