Hi there!

We have developed a flash video player which we intend to place in a portlet...

The player would use a .flv file to play the video as expected... It works fine if i place the .fvl file on the file system...

The thing is that I want to place the flv file in the document library so i i can manage permissions to the file...

If i point to the document library url to download the flv file, the player won't play at all...

I can download the document and save it and use it from there, the player plays fine the downloaded file...

How can i use the document library as a direct source of flv files? Or the image gallery? Whatever it is, i want to take advantage of the permissions that these allow me to manage...

Thanks in advance!

Hey Alex-
It's funny that you ask about this topic specifically. Just a few days ago I was working with a co-worker trying to figure out why we had to download .pdf files instead of directly viewing them in browser. This issue closely resembles:
http://support.liferay.com/browse/LEP-4487
The only way I think it would be possible is by directly modifying the source code - opening an improvement support ticket could go a ways towards getting this into liferay out of the box.
thanks Alex
jr

This isn't exactly the same case, but we have a client who is using the Document Library to store XSL files. Then in another portlet's configuration, the Doc Lib URL to that XSL file is entered, and the XSL transforms the XML successfully.

Hi Alex.

Did you manage to play flv files directly from Document Library using an embedded flv player? I am using liferay 5.1.0 and tried different flv players but without success.

Thanks.

Hi Alex,

Had you found the solution for that? I am traying to do the same as you.

Regards,

Tony

Use URLEncoder.encode with the document_library url, to play the video.

Regards,
Tony

How did you implement the URLEncoder.encode ? I'm trying to do this from a Jounal Content template/stucture and FF works great but nothing in IE

Hi Chris,

I only make URLEncoder.encode(prefs.getValue("video_source","")) call from the view page of my portlet.

Where the "video_source" is tha url of the flv file.

Regards,
Tony