Download video hack for v. 1.4.2

[Tranz]

hi guys ive sorted it in fashion by copying the whole of the sample theme.php to my template theme.php - but it does spoil the look of the mavigation a bit - but at least it works

You shouldn't have copied all of sample theme.php... just the function(s) you want to modify.

[Paver]

why do i have negative karma - what have I done 

See: How/why do you get negative karma?

[Joachim Müller]

copying the whole of the sample theme.php to my template theme.php

You mustn't do that. Only copy the section you want to see changed, not the entire content of themes/sample/theme.php

[Glorn]

With this hack in place, IE works just fine for downloading.

However, Firefox reads all files as filetype "application/octet-stream" and then saves them as such.

I know that this is from the download.php code, but does anyone know why Firefox is doing this and IE is not?

And if so, can I correct it so that Firefox recoginzes the appropriate filetype?






Thank you,

Glorn H.

[gldickens3]

Hello,

I have a very strange problem for which I would like some guidance.

I successfully implemented this Download Video Hack modification and it works great;  That is, it works great for clients running Windows with Windows Media Player.  However, videos cease functioning once this hack is implemented on clients running Linux with the MPlayer Plug-In For Firefox.  I have tested this extensively with CentOS 5 running MPlayer version 1.0rc2 along with Mplayer Plug-In version 3.45.  I compiled both Mplayer and the Mplayer Plug-In from source and they both otherwise work great.

I have two websites running very similar copies of Coppermine.  I discovered that when I implemented the Download Video Hack on both websites that the MPlayer Plug-In quit working for both websites and that the Mplayer Plug-In began working again when I reverted back to the code without the Download Video Hack.  So, to demonstrate, I have set one website up with the Download Video Hack and set the other website up without the Download Video Hack.  Here are a couple of samples of each:

Two Videos Without Download Video Hack can be viewed at:

http://www.dickens.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=24

Two Videos With Download Video Hack:

http://georgiajets.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=24
http://georgiajets.org/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=31

The dickens.com site has not implemented the Download Video Hack whereas the georgiajets.org site has.  So, playing any of the videos on either of the sites will demonstrate what I am describing.  Please keep in mind that the client must be running MPlayer with the MPlayer Plug-In for Firefox in order to replicate this problem.

This problem may very well be caused by an issue with the MPlayer Plug-In instead of Coppermine but I wanted to see if anybody had observed this phenomona and whether there is a known work around.  I say this primarily since the Download Video Hack appears to work fine under Windows with Windows Media Player.  I am hopeful that someone has already found a solution.  I have played around with the code some but I cannot make it work.  All the while, I will readily admit that this hack shouldn't affect any media player.

I hope that this is the proper thread under which to post this issue.

Many thanks in advance for your reply.

Gordon Dickens

[gldickens3]

OK.  I solved my own problem.  My theme is a custom theme and uses the variable "clsid" instead of "classid" in the code that is modified for this hack.  As soon as I changed the variable "classid" in the modified code back to "clsid" then the MPlayer Plug-in started working with this hack.  I don't really understand why it was working in Windows Media Player and not with MPlayer Plug-In but I now have it working properly in both places.

FYI,

Gordon