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Chage swfobject params usign javascript(jquery)

hi experts,

i have a page that contains a flash video player

<div id="video-player">
	<script type="text/javascript">
		// <![CDATA[
		var so = new SWFObject("media/VideoPlayer_small.swf", "Videoplayer", "299", "168", "10", "#ffffff");
			so.addVariable("MMredirectURL",window.location);
			so.useExpressInstall('js/detection/expressinstall.swf');
			so.setAttribute("redirectUrl","js/detection/noflash.html");
			so.addParam("menu","false");
			so.addParam("scale","noscale");
			so.addParam("quality","high");
			so.addParam("allowFullScreen","true");
			so.addParam("wmode","transparent");
			so.addParam("FlashVars", "videoURL=media/test.flv");
			so.write("video-player");
		// ]]>
	</script>
</div>

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an i would like to change

so.addParam("FlashVars", "videoURL=media/test.flv");

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so.addParam("FlashVars", "videoURL=media/test2.flv");"

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dynamically by clicking a link like <a href="#" onlick="javascript:ChangeVideo('media/test2.flv');">change video</a>

any ideas?

edchipman

You will need to re-load the swf for this to work, unfortunately you cannot change the flashvars and have flash notice that. However you could make a method available to javascript to change the video using ExternalInterface. Have a look at http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html#addCallback%28%29

spacehsheep

ASKER

Thanks edchipman for your reply, actually i'm able to change flash vars by removing swfobject from dom and adding a new one to the dom with the help of wonderful plugin http://jquery.thewikies.com/swfobject/

edchipman

I believe I mentioned this at the beginning of my post "You will need to re-load the swf for this to work"

spacehsheep

ASKER

ok i can give points to you but you said "unfortunately you cannot change the flashvars and have flash notice that" and your solution was to change it using ExternalInterface, which totally has no similarity with my solution and didn't help me to solve my problem.

if you think you deserved points i will accept

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spacehsheep

ASKER

Partially solved my question