Flash player goes straight to Fullscreen mode and the transcoded video
I have a problem as follows:
I am writing a Plex channel to play some flash video (there are no other streams available).
I have a correct Site Configuration file and the plugin object is correctly selected.
In my init state I can start the view. Unfortunately, the Flash player goes straight to Fullscreen mode and the transcoded video on the client shows the flash object without the video.
The fullscreen is actually running on the machine hosting the Plex server and when I press the escape key with that in focus it goes back into the flash object and appears on the client correctly.
I have tried using the action on the swf object but no joy there... I have tried creating a new window vi javascript and switching the focus to it then self .. also not working..
Any suggestions as to how I can maybe focus on the fullscreen object and then type the Escape key (27) .. or some other way in Plex ... anything at all I can try?
If you can, I would suggest trying to find and use the url for the full-screen player. Pass that to the WebVideoURL (or WebVideoItem, depending on the version of the plugin framework you’re developing against), from within the plugin code rather than try to deal with the immediate jump to full-screen with the player on the regular webpage. The added benefit would be that you should be able to take advantage of the increased video resolution which is often used on the full-screen player over the smaller in-page flash player.
Thank you for the response. That would be ideal if I could do that. In this case it is the same flash player that is embedded in the web page that goes to fullscreen as soon as the user indicates to play. The reason that I do stuff in the site configuration is that the video does not start automatically and requires at least 2 clicks to even get the video started. This behaviour depends on whether it has been viewed previously or whether it is for mature audiences. All this needs to be done before the jump to full screen.
I did manage to get around the issue however and it was more or less what I was describing above... It appears though that the video would not ever start until the initialState is exited. If i then do a double click at (1,1) i can get back to embedded mode... perfect. I cannot see anywhere in the documentation anything about what is special about the initialState... As I say, once i go to the next state I can then cause the click to occur, but I could not achieve this in the initialState regardless of pauses etc .. .. I now have a different issue that is only showing up in the Roku Plex client ... its not related to this issue so I wont explain here ..
