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On the flowplayer download page, when clicking the "How to Pay?" links at the bottom, the videos do not play.

Error is:

301: Unable to load plugin: unable to load plugin 'captions', url: '/swf/flowplayer.captions-3.2.1.swf'

This happens a lot, but I forget the exact code. Search the forums for "wmode"

You just need to modify your initialization of the tooltip, so instead of putting tooltips on all elements of class "tooltiplink" you need to select that class which does also contains a "title" attribute. You probably have something like:

$('.tooltiplink').tooltip();

When you need

$('.tooltiplink [title]').tooltip();

Please mark this thread solved if this solves your problem.

Hm, interesting, thanks for posting the complete solution. Didn't know about removeData().

Bumping this. I still think it's a good idea.

I am pretty sure this is a hardware issue. The H.264 requires a lot of processing power, and IE is a shitty browser. Since the video is playing within flash I would assume it isn't associated with IE, but then again the plugin has to run inside IE so it could be affecting it.

I was able to play the video smoothly on IE6, IE7 and FF3. My machine is a core2duo E8400+ with a 256mb graphics card.

Is your system pretty slow? Can you try another computer?

If you want to implement this, I recommend using scrollable and overlay instead of just overlay. Or use one flowplayer and the playlist plugin.

If you use the scrollable method, people can scroll through image thumbnails of your videos and when they click, it opens an overlay and plays the correct video. (I am not sure though how to set this up).

If you use the playlist plugin with one flowplayer object, people can look at the gallery of videos and when they click one, it tells the video to play in the flowplayer.
http://flowplayer.org/plugins/javascript/playlist.html

These are just different ideas that might be easier. I would use the playlist method because I have done it before.

I think your understanding of how javascript works is a little off. You are not wasting memory or "polluting" anything by leaving elements binded to functions. The javascript does not run and therefore does not create the overlay until you initiate the function by clicking the link.

But what you are looking to do is unbind the element(s) from their expose call. Simply unbind the element using unbind() and it will no longer be a trigger for the overlay. When you want to rebind it, recall overlay() on that element.

A standard form needs to POST somewhere. You cannot do POST in an expose window. You need to POST to another page.

What you need to do is use ajax in your overlay, not use a form with POST.

So instead of form method="post" you need to save the information somewhere with $.get() or $.ajax()

You can most likely solve your problem with $.getScript.

It will allow you to load additional JS files using the jQuery library. What I am unsure is, if you use this function in multiple overlays on the same page... will it reload the JS every time or cause problems? I have no idea!

Wow you narrowed it down perfectly. Thank you so much for posting this!

Thanks for posting your results :)
Always good to have a solution in a thread even if it's not the best.

If you are just "testing" then you should upload your FLV for real, and use the full path to test.

If you are trying to develop some sort of offline browser site (like a CD-Rom Course) then you will need to look more into running a local server.

I know there are products (hopefully freeware) available that let mini HTTP servers run on the local machine just for the purpose of serving HTML onhttp://localhost and nothing else. This will let the security issues go away.

So "what do I need this for?" is the quesion to ask yourself. If it's trivial then just host the FLV somewhere online.

Stop spamming the forums with your topics....
http://flowplayer.org/forum/users/17291

You did not try my recommendation in your other thread yet:
http://flowplayer.org/tools/forum/25/29633

I don't even see tabs at that url. Have you changed the page? It looks like you got things fading using other means.