[AndrewD]

Originally Posted by vbboarder

In researching the Yahoo event script conflict with embedded players, I discovered a possible fix. I verified that the problem exists with VB 3.7.2 alone without LDM. You can reproduce the problem with VB 3.7.2 in Firefox 2 with Flash Player 9 (I'm using Windows XP - sp2):

1. Create a forum with HTML code enabled (remember to allow admins only to post if this will be a permanent forum).
2. Create a thread and post with this sample object tag from youtube:

<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zzSpPaCIG0g&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zzSpPaCIG0g&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

3. Save and view the thread. The embedded flash player will temporarily show for ~1 sec. when the page loads, but then disappears (if autostart is enabled, video should play but still does not show). Refreshing the page and clearing the cache does not help.

Since the Flash player showed in LDM but NOT in VB alone, I realized that a possible work-around is to create the embedded player with a JS script and not by the object or embed tags. In LDM, the JW Flash & Silverlight players were able to show because they do not directly use the object and embed tags. Instead, the players are created by a script in the links_playerbit_JWPlayer and links_playerbit_JWwmPlayer templates. Hope that helps to create a plugin fix for the other media players.

Since this bug is obviously a VB bug, I posted it at VB's site: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/proje...?issueid=26190
Everyone, please confirm/ comment on this bug at that link so that the VB team will make this bug a high priority. Even if Andrew is able to provide a plugin fix for LDM, this bug will still affect posts at HTML enabled forums since users can NOT post script tags even if HTML is enabled. For example, you may want to create a HTML enabled forums where admins can post YouTube videos for users to watch. Without this bug fixed, you're not able to do that.

I will see what I can find out. During the years, I've found that there are frequently interactions problems between the browser and media handling infrastructures - flash, windows media player and real player have all caused problems and they are all specific to certain releases of the support products. It's a real pain to keep up-to-date.

On a similar note, the guy who runs the quirksmode site must be ocmpletely hairless, trying to keep track o the javascript features that do or do not work in different browsers/browser versions.

I posted a question yesterday about an oddity in PHP which has really got me confused.