Released cfMediaPlayer on RIAForge

Posted At : November 5, 2009 2:44 PM | Posted By : Stephen Withington
Related Categories: ColdFusion,Flash,Web Site Projects

I've released cfMediaPlayer on RIAForge today. It's a ColdFusion custom tag wrapper to display FLV, MP3, MP4 and AAC files using the JW FLV Player™ with one line of code. For example, <cf_mediaplayer file="myvideo.flv"></cf_mediaplayer>.

This tag supports many more options than CF9's newly added cfMediaPlayer tag. Included is a readme.htm file that gives full descriptions on all of the available attributes as well as some detailed usage examples.

Download is available at http://cfmediaplayer.riaforge.org/. SVN access can be found at http://svn.riaforge.org/cfmediaplayer.

I look forward to hearing any feedback users might have. Thanks!

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Just stumbled across this and it is great. Very easy to use and much more customizable than CFMediaPlayer. It is working fine with flv files but for some reason mp4 files will only play sound through the viewer. Have you had any similar issues?
# Posted By Eric | 4/27/10 10:26 AM
@Eric,
Glad you like it and thanks for the feedback. I haven't run into your problem with .mp4 files yet, but would suspect it might have something to do with the way the file was encoded.
# Posted By Steve Withington | 4/27/10 10:40 PM
Excellent tag, especially if you haven't upgraded to CF9 yet. I was experiencing same problem with mp4 files as Eric, some played fine and some didn't display the video but everything else worked fine.
# Posted By jason | 12/23/10 5:25 PM
Doesn't seem to work on my Windows 7, IIS7, CF 9 test box. Just installed it and tried it out and the output is a black bordered box that says "This text will be replaced." Any idea on why it's not working? If so, please email me.
# Posted By Alton Hardin | 4/3/11 10:12 PM
@Alton,
Interesting ... I would check a couple things.

1. As silly as this sounds, I would make sure you have JavaScript enabled ... that happened to me once when I was doing some debugging and disabled JS but forgot to re-enable it.

2. Inspect the code that was generated and verify that the paths to the flv are correctly generated.

3. Make sure .flv is a valid mimetype on your machine.
# Posted By Steve Withington | 4/4/11 9:48 AM
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