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I apologize if I've gotten confused or have posted something that has confused you.

Just contact me at brian [at] jamroom [dot] net and I will install the proper stuff for you.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Time to spice up the Timeline!

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If you have the URLScan module installed, then all of these things are "clickable" right on your timeline.

What update are you waiting for?

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I understand it can be confusing

So all videos have specific bits of information stored in them that are basically "meta data" - i.e. info that tells filesystems and players specific things about the video - name of video, copyright, whatever. MOST of the time these "header frames" are found at the beginning of a file (say first few thousand bytes) and so what a browser does is it does a "scan" request, where it tries to grab the first 100k or so of a file to find these header frames. If it does NOT find them, then sometimes it will try to download the file since the frames can be stuck on the END of the file, and it will look for them there.

The problem here is that the file download is getting cut off before the entire file can download, and so nothing works. They of course play locally since you can "load" the entire file in about 2 seconds.

They will work on YouTube since YouTube converts all uploaded videos (including FLV) to MP4 and WEBM, so it can "fix" the bad headers. In Jamroom, we actually skip re-encoding FLV files since we've found that that often deteriorates the quality of the video. However that also means if the file is bad, it's going to stay bad. In my experience this is actually really rare - I can think of only a handful of times I've seen (if it is what I think it is here). You can test for sure by re-converting the video on your PC (or mac) and re-uploading the new one - if it works, then it was a bad file.

Hope this helps!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

ningja 1.03 profiles the great and thed almost great

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yeah that's the issue - should be col2 / col8 not col1 / col9. I will get that fixed here.

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updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

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Actually based on your edits of your posts above, I would suspect that the server is killing the process that is sending the data before it is finished (which is why you are seeing it stop).

Do you host your own server or are you on someone else's hosting?

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

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I think that's OK - that's the default. I'm not sure why it won't play on Safari, but I will see if I can figure it out when I get a chance here. Most likely the "header" frames that tell the browser meta data about the file could be corrupted, but that's just a guess.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

ningja 1.03 profiles the great and thed almost great

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Is this on the main site index or profile index?

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updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

Latest Ning Import and NingJa skin updates

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Read my response above ^ - you will need to install them.

Thanks!
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM

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Yes...
updated by @brian: 12/29/14 09:23:54AM