links:
working page:
http://www.f7digitaldesign.com/twd/index.html
non-working:
http://www.f7digitaldesign.com/twd/eddys_test2.html

Any help is very appreciated! Thanks!

http://www.monoslideshow.com/public/mobypicture/

Mobypicture stores pictures uploaded from mobile phones, which optionally can be tagged. Mobypicture serves Media RSS type feeds that aggregate photos by a single tag. The URL is composed in the following format: "http://www.mobypicture.com/rss/your_tag/group.rss". Monoslideshow can read these Media RSS type feeds.

The example above loads any feed based on your input. It uses Javascript to dynamically build the .XML content needed to load the specific RSS feed. Additionally, if a tag doesn't contain any items, an error event is dispatched from Monoslideshow, which is caught again by Javascript to display a custom error message.

Have a look at the source code of the web page to see how things work in detail.

[NEW] added attribute "position" and "margin" to the item and video tag, to be used when scaleMode is set to "none"
[NEW] added attribute "condenseWhite" to the caption title and description tags, to condense white space in case of complex xml nodes in text
[NEW] added a new tag "firstTransition", that if its "type" is set, defines a transition that only plays the first time the slideshow starts up
[NEW] you can now control font grid fit type with the attribute "gridFitType" in the caption nodes, useful for crisp pixel fonts
[FIXED] fixed a bug where the controller buttons weren't updating correctly

Thanks and regards

What alternatives do exist if not.

Thanks for your reply

"[FIXED] fixed the gap when background music is looped"

Thanks for this.

You can see the XML settings for my slide show at http://clarencedesign.com/projects/slide/monoslideshow.xml

I want to have a smooth slide show like the one at http://www.theeurope.com/ but it's using monoslideshow version 1, and the settings are different.

Is there anyone can help???

Thanks!

I have finished creating a new site that uses Mono Slideshow. It incorporates albums that feature a combination of flv's and images. Everything works fine locally, including the loading and playing of the flv files. Today I uploaded the entire site to a web server (before going live) but the albums with flv videos are not playing.

The index page is a good example. It contains both an opening flv then a set of images. The flv does not play and there is no error message - all I get is the question mark. If I hit the next button the next album (that contains only images) plays fine. The flv on the index page is only 1MB in size.

You can see an example here: http://d1588862.domaincentral.com.au/index.html

None of the flv's are playing.

I have not "gone live" with the new site yet because I wanted to test that all the videos played fine.

Does anybody have any advice on what might be going wrong here. As there is no error message, I am unsure what the issue might be. As mentioned previously everything works fine locally but the videos dont play and there is no error message.

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Here is my code :

I'm using the the BASIC account.

All I want to do is have a slideshow for the home page. I get the flash working but it gives me an "error loading monoslideshow.xml: ioError" message.

http://cuatro44.squarespace.com/nuestro-trabajo/

Is there a tutorial for doing this?

Thanks in advance.

First of all, let me thank u for a sweet lookin' gallery! I've been searching around for something like this in ages! :)
But I need some assistance for my setup. I'm pretty noob to AS3, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
I've read the manual like 10 times, and searching google non-stop for several days now, but I can't find a solution.

For example when I'm using the actionscript from the manual:

I get the following errors in the output window:

VerifyError: Error #1053: Illegal override of z in nl.mono.mss.z._hb1237. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__vj848 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__fu1439 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__tn976 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__cg107 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__co625 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__jb624 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__rp341 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__cb973 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__cp552 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__rr988 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__tq1081 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__ka1644 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__tk1059 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__qg776 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__lq1755 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__it1559 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable _kp222__er839 is not defined. ReferenceError: Error #1065: Variable Main is not defined.

I have tried so many ways to load this into my project, but with no luck :/

So please, someone, help me!! :)

[FIXED] fixed some XML Parser recursion bugs
[FIXED] fixed an issue where the reflection wasn't updating properly

The main reason I purchased Monoslideshow was for its Flickr RSS abilities. But although I can create a slideshow that reads all the photos from a Flickr account, I simply can't find any way to get a Monoslideshow to load just the photos of a specific set. Can someone please help? No matter what I try (even the other forum suggestions), I get "no photos to display".

If this is actually impossible :( :( is there at least a way to have a Monoslideshow just read specific tags? I suppose I can have my clients learn how to use tags, if sets don't work... though sets would still be preferable.

PLEEEASE let me know!!

Well you *should* be able to with code similar to the following...

I need startWithItemID to work in conjunction with the following JavaScript

function initializeMonoslideshow() { swf = document.getElementById("Monoslideshow"); swf.addListener("itemLoaderComplete", "onItemLoaderComplete"); if(window.location.hash) setTimeout("swf.togglePause();",3000) } function onItemLoaderComplete(event) { window.location.hash = event.id; }

If someone bookmarks the URL, then I want to be able to start monoslideshow with startWithItemID set to what was in the hash.

dataFile: "monoslideshow.php?img=" + window.location.hash.replace("#",""),

unfortunately, I have not been able to get startWithItemID to work...

:(

What did I do wrong ?

hereafter te content of my xlm file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <album> <configuration delay="4" startWithAlbumID="flickr" > <caption backgroundAlpha=".3" backgroundColor="#ffffff" margin="20,20,140,20" padding="5,0,5,5" position="bottomLeft" strokeColor="#000000" width="10" > <title color="#000000" size="14" weight="bold" /> <description color="#000000" /> <shadow alpha="0" /> <transition/> </caption> <navigation backgroundAlpha="1" backgroundOverlayAlpha="0.25" backgroundOverlayColor="#ffffff" backgroundRoundness="0" margin="60,60,60,60" padding="10,10,10,10" strokeWidth="0" > <albums backgroundColor="#000000" backgroundRoundness="0" height="75" imageBackgroundColor="#000000" imageRoundness="0" padding="0,0,0,0" strokeColor="#000000" width="75" > <caption backgroundRoundness="0" height="75" strokeColor="#000000" width="200" > <title color="#ffffff" size="16" weight="bold" /> <description color="#ffffff" size="12" /> </caption> <shadow/> <transition highlight="screen" highlightStrength="0.15" > <shadow/> </transition> </albums> <items height="60" imageRoundness="0" width="60" > <shadow/> <transition> <shadow/> </transition> </items> <shadow alpha="0" /> <caption backgroundRoundness="0" > <title color="#ffffff" size="16" weight="bold" /> <description color="#ffffff" size="12" /> </caption> <pageIndicator/> </navigation> <reflection alpha="0.75" /> <controller showFullScreenButton="true" backgroundAlpha="1" backgroundRoundness="0" disappearMode="horizontal" iconColorDisable="#999999" iconColorDown="#ffffff" iconColorOver="#f71000" iconColorUp="#ffffff" padding="5,5,5,5" position="bottomRight" strokeColor="#000000" strokeWidth="0" > <scrubBar backgroundColor="#999999" loadingColor="#ffffff" progressColor="#f71000" /> <shadow alpha="0" /> </controller> <mark alpha="1" source="http://realtywatch.biz/images/comprofiler/cb_logo_70_4b6aa15892c52.jpg" margin="50,50,150,50" position="center" > <shadow alpha="0" /> </mark> <progress backgroundAlpha="1" height="10" padding="5,5,5,5" position="topRight" strokeColor="#000000" strokeWidth="0" type="none" > <shadow alpha="0" /> </progress> <transition easing="easeOut" kenBurnsMode="randomPan" type="shatter" /> <shadow/> <thumbnailNavigation> <items> <shadow/> <transition> <shadow/> </transition> </items> <shadow/> </thumbnailNavigation> </configuration> <contents> <image source="http://www.realtywatch.biz/images/com_sobi2/gallery/376/376_image_1.jpg" /> <image source="http://www.realtywatch.biz/images/com_sobi2/gallery/376/376_image_2.jpg" /> </contents> </album>

the mark code is the following :

<mark alpha="1" source="http://realtywatch.biz/images/comprofiler/cb_logo_70_4b6aa15892c52.jpg" margin="50,50,150,50" position="center" > <shadow alpha="0" /> </mark>

Wht did I do wrong ?

thek you for your help

best regards

Michel

Can somebody please tell me should be added/modyfied to the code?

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
var so = new SWFObject("/mpitech.nsf/monoslideshow.swf", "SOmonoSlideshow", "980", "120", "7", "#ffffff" );
so.addVariable("showLogo", "false");
so.addVariable("showVersionInfo", "false");
so.addVariable("dataFile", "http://www.mpitech.com/mpitech.nsf/library/monoslideshow.xml");
so.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
so.write("monoslideshow");
// ]]>
</script>

Any help would be much appreciated

/Mark

I'm trying to embed the slideshow into my CSS page. I made a page.dwt and style.css that tell the index and HTML pages how to act. If i just place the .swf file in my dwt file then of course don't see any pictures. If i copy and paste a simple head/body script into my dwt then Dreamweaver gives me a lot of errors... Does the slideshow work if i do not use the script in my index.html..? So if the index gets the info from a dwt file?? Yes?? Let me know how because i'm a bit of a newbie...

Thanks a lot!!

Dylan

My .xml file looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<slideshow>
<album itemPath="slideshow/images" thumbnailPath="slideshow/thumbnails" >
<contents>
<img src="photo1.jpg" thumbnail ="photo1.jpg"/>
<img src="photo2.jpg" thumbnail ="photo2.jpg"/>
<img src="photo3.jpg" thumbnail ="photo3.jpg"/>
</contents>
</album>
</slideshow>

The script on my webpage (index.htm) looks like this:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="monoslideshow.swf">
 
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject("monoslideshow.swf", "mss", "400", "400", "6", "#ffffff");
so.write("monoslideshow.swf");
</script>

Any help would be appreciated

I'm working on a site that uses monoslideshow, but I don't know what version. Is there a way to determine the version of a particular install?

Thanks in advance

AllenJB

I have an install a monoslideshow - I'm not entirely sure what version, but I've asked about that in another thread.

The next/previous controls are being displayed and we want to hide them.

The current XML is:

(Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/f3496d440 - the code block here oddly seems to ignore line returns)

Everything works except the next/previous and image "n/m" controls, which we don't want. As you can see, I've tried configuration for the next/previous controls for both version 1 and 2 (since I assume that anything not recognised is simply ignored), but neither set seems to be having any effect.

Thanks in advance,

AllenJB

F4V files are encoded using the H.264 codec. With f4v file format you can harness the power of H.264 video codec.

If you have a lot of money at your disposal f4v files can be created using Adobe Media Encoder (comes with Flash CS4, and Premiere Pro) however if you want to hold on to your hard earned cash you can achieve the same results by using another excellent little (free) program called Media Coder instead.

I have been using Media Coder to convert .avi video clips (taken with Canon Powershot digital camera) into f4v files and I am more than happy with the results (typically 22Mb/30sec/640x480px avi file after conversion into f4v format becomes 1.8Mb file with practically the same quality - the only difference to my eyes is that f4v loads practically instantly).

These are Media Coder settings I use:

Video
Format: H.246
Mode: Two-Pass
473Kbps
Source: Autoselect
Encoder: Autoselect

Audio
Enable Audio
Source: AutoSelect
Encoder: FAAC
Resample: Original
Audio ID: 0

IMPORTANT: Chances are you will be tempted to use LAME MP3 Encoder - well, don't do it, you will end up with a file without sound, only video will be played back!
H.264 + AAC in the MP4 container is supported. H.264 + MP3 in the MP4 container is not supported.

FAAC (Settings in the right box)
Quality
60
Container: AAC

Container
Container: Flash Video
Multiplexer: Enabled (MP4Box)

AviSynth
Use AviSynth for decoding if possible
Generate Script (DirectShowSource)

And also folks, I must say I'm not Fabio Sonnati :) and I don't claim expertise in this matter so maybe there is a way to achieve even better rendering results, the settings I posted here are good enough for my purposes (travel video), you can always play with the settings more... by the way Media Encoder setings for Fabio's mp4 file can be found here.

I hope this will be useful to some of you,

best regards,

ylw

Edited on December 27 , 2009...

A month ago I also recommended using VLC Media Player however it turned out this program is a good viewer but a lousy video converter; I have found another one which is also good and very simple: it is called RipBot264 v1.14.6 it creates very nice mp4 movies encoded with H246 which can be played with MSS.

[NEW] "greyscale" transition, blends from greyscale to color
[NEW] "iris" transition, reveals an item with a circular mask
[NEW] "lightRays" transition, emulates a light coming from the back of the image, moving in a specified direction
[NEW] "RGBBlur" transition, blurs separate color channels
[NEW] "spot" transition, looks like a powerful light source slowly dims and reveals an item
[NEW] "TVDistort" transition, emulates the screen of an old TV
[NEW] "zoomIn" transition, zooms in the picture in 4 passes
[NEW] "zoomOut" transition, zooms out the picture in 4 passes
[NEW] backgroundColor can be set to "transparent" now
[NEW] added event "error" to the API, dispatched when the error screen of Monoslideshow is displayed
[NEW] added API method "setCurrentTransitionAttributes" which can be called via Actionscript
[NEW] added API attribute "bitmapData" which can be read out via Actionscript from the event dispatched when an item completes loading
[NEW] new attribyte "type" in the navigation "transition" tag - currently "highlight" and "greyscale" are available
[NEW] added "fade" mode to attribute "disappearMode" in the "controller" tag
[NEW] the controller now has a "transition" element, which you can use to specify a transition when the controller flips to its navigation window state - currently "blend" and "flip" are available
[NEW] the "transition" element in the "controller" tag now has a new attribute "blur", which specifies how much blur is applied during type "flip"
[NEW] image color correction support via attribute "colorCorrection" in the "configuration" tag
[CHANGED] Monoslideshow now requires Flash Player 10 and up
[CHANGED] the "delay" attribute of the "caption" tag is now gone - there are two new attributes in the caption "transition" tag instead: "delayIn" and "delayOut"
[CHANGED] the "flipTime" attribute is now implemented in the new "transition" tag of the controller and is called "time"
[CHANGED] running Monoslideshow locally now gives a security error while loading external content, instead of loading local content - the fix is the same as before: add the local folder to the trusted settings in Adobe's Settings Manager
[FIXED] fixed the gap when background music is looped
[FIXED] fixed a bug where the the scrub bar was expanded while the controller itself was in its compressed state
[FIXED] Monoslideshow is optimized in various places, a tiny bit smaller in byte size and consumes less CPU power
[FIXED] various minor bugs

According to the file which has startWithAlbumID="slidesdomestic", the slidesdomestic album should be loading first.

In anycase, I don't want the nvigation to come up first.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <album id="slides" thumbnailPath="slides/thumbs" highResPath="slides/fullscreen" itemPath="slides"> <configuration startWithAlbumID="slidesdomestic" backgroundColor="#000000" delay="4" fullScreenScaleMode="downscaleToFit" scaleMode="none" onLoadError="skip" renderQuality="best" startWithNavigationWindow="true" startSlideshowOnAlbumSelect="true" viewportRoundness="0"> <navigation backgroundOverlayAlpha="0" backgroundAlpha="0" strokeWidth="0"> <items width="100" height="50" /> <albums width="100" height="50" strokeWidth="0" backgroundAlpha="0.3"> <caption width="80" /> </albums> <caption strokeWidth="0" /> </navigation> <transition type="focusFade" time="1" easing="easeInOut" /> <caption backgroundRoundness="0" backgroundType="fitCompleteText" backgroundAlpha="0.3"> <shadow alpha="0" /> </caption> <controller backgroundRoundness="0" position="topRight" showFullScreenButton="true" autoHide="true" disappearDelay="7" strokeWidth="0" backgroundAlpha="0.3" margin="10,10,10,10"> <shadow alpha="0" /> </controller> <thumbnailNavigation type="none" backgroundAlpha="0.3" margin="0,0,0,0" /> </configuration> <contents> <album title="artistic" id="slidesartistic" thumbnailPath="slides/artistic/thumbs" highResPath="slides/artistic/fullscreen" itemPath="slides/artistic"> <configuration /> <contents /> </album> <album title="commercial" id="slidescommercial" thumbnailPath="slides/commercial/thumbs" highResPath="slides/commercial/fullscreen" itemPath="slides/commercial"> <configuration /> <contents /> </album> <album title="domestic" id="slidesdomestic" thumbnailPath="slides/domestic/thumbs" highResPath="slides/domestic/fullscreen" itemPath="slides/domestic" thumbnail="slides/domestic/albumthumb.jpg"> <configuration> <sound backgroundMusic="slides/domestic/08_Everything.mp3" /> <controller showMuteButton="true" /> </configuration> <contents> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-020.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-030.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-040.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-050.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-080.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-090.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-100.JPG" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-120.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-130.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-140.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-150.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-160.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-170.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-180.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-190.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-200.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-210.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-220.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-230.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-240.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-250.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-260.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-270.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-280.jpg" /> </contents> </album> <album title="modeling" id="slidesmodeling" thumbnailPath="slides/modeling/thumbs" highResPath="slides/modeling/fullscreen" itemPath="slides/modeling" thumbnail="slides/modeling/albumthumb.jpg"> <configuration /> <contents> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-003.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-005.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-010.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-060.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-065.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-095.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-100.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-110.jpg" /> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-135.jpg" /> </contents> </album> </contents> </album>

<album title="domestic" id="slidesdomestic" thumbnailPath="slides/domestic/thumbs" highResPath="slides/domestic/fullscreen" itemPath="slides/domestic" thumbnail="slides/domestic/albumthumb.jpg"> <configuration> <sound backgroundMusic="slides/domestic/08_Everything.mp3"/> <controller showMuteButton="true"/> </configuration> <contents> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-020.jpg"/> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-030.jpg"/> <image source="TerenceKearns.com-040.jpg"/> </contents> </album>

However, if I put the showMuteButton="true" attribute in the parent's configuration/controller element, then it works. The only problem is that it enablrd Mute for ALL the albums. I thought I could set this on a album by album basis.

Am I missing something? or is this just a bug?

I'm am being pedantic about it because I am writing PHP code to set up the Mute button only when it is needed.

any help would be appreciated.

I have all the URL's (swf, js, image paths on the xms...) pointing at the absolute last URL.

What's wrong? I'm really frustrated. Thanks!