I’ve experimented a little further with vpip and I find I’m getting mysterious boxes (see previous post) even on a new html document created in dreamweaver.It isn’t just a Blogger issue. Here is a link to a test html page containing just a single player and nothing else:
Thank you for the descriptive and informative review and reporting the bugs. I’ve fixed the problem with the phantom boxes appearing after closing the ThickBox. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the bug causing ThickBox to appear at the top of the browser in IE 6. This error does not happen in Firefox or IE 7. So I’ve disabled ThickBox in IE 6, defaulting to the dynamic embedding of video. This is in vPIP release 0.16f.
Alan O said,
on August 22nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Thanks..I’ll keep watching further developments with interest.
Hey Enric,
This is wonderful. I had stayed away for a while cause I didn’t want to borrow anyone else’s bandwidth and I also didn’t want to yet invest in a web host of my own. Recently I discovered google pages and found out that they do allow you to host 100mb of files for free on an account. Today I tried uploading the files for vpip and then I tested it out on a test blog page I have and they worked wonderfully. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this! I just wanted to pass along to you that anyone can host these vpip files on google pages via there google accounts.
As of right now this seems to be a great deal. As you can gather I’ve just only begun to play with this but it seems to be working great. I don’t know if google pages as a host will ever be a problem. But for now it seems to be working and working for free.
If for some reason the files on google pages become in accessible will these scripts still allow the video to be played say on another page as if just a link to a video was clicked?
Thanks again. I’ve thought this was a beautiful thing for a while now I get to have some of that beauty on my pages.
Yes, if the scirpts move you can just change the script references to the new location where the scripts would be located. The HTML code for videos the would remain the same.
Thanks Anthony. I appreciate your enthusiasm and gracious comment.
Cinegage Utilities
on August 20th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Love the programme but have a problem when published in blogger.
Look at this test page here:
http://hittheconga.blogspot.com/2006/08/no-thick-boxes-play-windows-media.html
Clicking on a video and bringing up the thickbox several times adds several boxes to the display. Here is a screen capture :
http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/1649/addedboxesnu8.jpg
In firefox 1.5.0.6 the squares appear at the bottom. In IE the squares appear down the side.
I have also noted that the thickbox does not center in IE (it appears near the top) Firefox does not suffer from this issue
Alan O
on August 21st, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Hi
I’ve experimented a little further with vpip and I find I’m getting mysterious boxes (see previous post) even on a new html document created in dreamweaver.It isn’t just a Blogger issue. Here is a link to a test html page containing just a single player and nothing else:
http://hitthebongo.googlepages.com/vpiptest.html
the script code in the header references the files on the cineorg servers
I’m really baffled ?
Any ideas what the problem may be ?
BTW…I posted a little feature here:
http://www.hitthebongo.co.uk/videofx/2006/08/embedding-video-cinegage-way.html
on August 21st, 2006 at 10:00 pm
Alan O:
Thank you for the descriptive and informative review and reporting the bugs. I’ve fixed the problem with the phantom boxes appearing after closing the ThickBox. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the bug causing ThickBox to appear at the top of the browser in IE 6. This error does not happen in Firefox or IE 7. So I’ve disabled ThickBox in IE 6, defaulting to the dynamic embedding of video. This is in vPIP release 0.16f.
on August 22nd, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Thanks..I’ll keep watching further developments with interest.
Al
on December 21st, 2006 at 10:58 am
Hey Enric,
This is wonderful. I had stayed away for a while cause I didn’t want to borrow anyone else’s bandwidth and I also didn’t want to yet invest in a web host of my own. Recently I discovered google pages and found out that they do allow you to host 100mb of files for free on an account. Today I tried uploading the files for vpip and then I tested it out on a test blog page I have and they worked wonderfully. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing this! I just wanted to pass along to you that anyone can host these vpip files on google pages via there google accounts.
As of right now this seems to be a great deal. As you can gather I’ve just only begun to play with this but it seems to be working great. I don’t know if google pages as a host will ever be a problem. But for now it seems to be working and working for free.
If for some reason the files on google pages become in accessible will these scripts still allow the video to be played say on another page as if just a link to a video was clicked?
Thanks again. I’ve thought this was a beautiful thing for a while now I get to have some of that beauty on my pages.
on December 31st, 2006 at 12:23 pm
Anthony:
Yes, if the scirpts move you can just change the script references to the new location where the scripts would be located. The HTML code for videos the would remain the same.
Thanks Anthony. I appreciate your enthusiasm and gracious comment.
— Enric