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    copied!<p>I have a SWF loaded via a "swfobject.embedSWF()"</p> <p>I use Javascript's methods to pass calls via the flash APIs: <a href="http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player4Api#Sendingevents" rel="nofollow">http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/Player4Api#Sendingevents</a></p> <pre><code>call.player.sendEvent('LOAD', theFile) </code></pre> <p>Using a XMLHttpRequest() call via GET to a PHP script I get a file url:</p> <pre><code>http://xx.yy.com/protected/5dde98716ad8f31127ab560d94f96b87/4cbabea0/test.mp4 </code></pre> <p>Typing the URL into my browser starts the file, but passing the variable to the sendEvent() call does nothing. Why?</p> <pre><code>var response = http.responseText; loadFile(response); player.sendEvent('PLAY'); </code></pre> <p>Is there something obvious that I am doing wrong? :/</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p><strong>EDIT1: Solution</strong></p> <p>I have gotten the generated url to load and play correctly by not just returning the video url with the <code>XMLHttpRequest()</code> but returning an actual xml file with the necessary parameters to work with some of the modules I am using.</p> <pre><code>&lt;rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:jwplayer="http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashFormats"&gt; &lt;channel&gt; &lt;title&gt;Example media RSS playlist&lt;/title&gt; &lt;item&gt; &lt;title&gt;Lighttpd Video&lt;/title&gt; &lt;media:content url="http://xx.yy.com/protected/91aa7dfa25596a7d59c3b9403fc4773f/4cbb35d6/test.mp4" /&gt; &lt;jwplayer:provider&gt;http&lt;/jwplayer:provider&gt; &lt;jwplayer:http.startparam&gt;start&lt;/jwplayer:http.startparam&gt; &lt;/item&gt; &lt;/channel&gt; &lt;/rss&gt; </code></pre> <p>I wonder if this is as obvious as it seems now. Can <code>XMLHTTPRequest()</code> only return responses formatted as xml files? :/</p>
 

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