tries to play *.flv files with the dew player as preview

[frozeman]

which obviously will not work

[GerHobbelt]

Known issue.

This is VERY EXPERIMENTAL code; I was about to have a look at the code and player used by the advanced lightbox (1.3.4 IIRC) and HTML5

The plan is to use a different Flash player for the video stuff, when HTML5 is not around; might even go so far as to integrate it into milkbox 3.x

[GerHobbelt]

Stripped the audio + video preview codegen server-side; IMHO this should be handled client-side; we can simply add appropriate JS to render the preview to suit the browser.

[frozeman]

cool but then you should contribute it back to the milkbox guy here: http://reghellin.com/milkbox/

but there is a player which does the htrml an fallback
e.g. this one http://sublimevideo.net/demo looks nice, even with ightbox

[GerHobbelt]

Haven't tested all those players yet with various video types; in the end that will decide which one it's gonna be. Since AdvancedLightbox seemed to support a lot of video sources, I thought 'let's have a look at that when time allows' - it's just that the time wasn't there yet. FMplayer (one of the players used by this AdvancedLightbox thing) also does HTML5+fallback, but that one is commercial these days (at least not a license which allows unpaid usage in a commercial setting).
Sublimevideo might be a good alternative!

[GerHobbelt]

Side note: have had contact with Luca (the milkbox guy) and pointed him at https://github.com/GerHobbelt/milkbox

Received (and merged) his latest code and examples, tweaked them and took it from there. My milkbox repo is kept in sync with the filemanager subdir thanks to 'git subtree' scripts.

[frozeman]

cool, where do i find hw the git subtree thing works?

[GerHobbelt]

https://github.com/apenwarr/git-subtree