Error calling method on NPObject

[Davide Prati]

1. Hello, i'm tring to embed this example https://raw.github.com/gist/1217547/553ddf5bf0a4c842aa4a29837160c3b20791b850/megaplaya-advanced-embed.html in local. If i use the url video url give in the example, http://vimeo.com/api/v2/vhx/videos.json, there is no problem, when i try to change it with another url that displays a json response, I have this error:
2. 
   
3. Uncaught Error: Error calling method on NPObject.
1. megaplaya_call
2. (anonymous function)
3. onclick
   
   
   Does anybody know a solution?

[Davide Prati]

That was the error in chrome. in Firefox i've got this: "uncaught exception: Error in Actionscript. Use a try/catch block to find error."

[Casey Pugh]

Hi Davide - What's the URL you are using that's causing it to break? 

[Davide Prati]

Hey Casey, thanks for your answer.

This is the url

http://bit.ly/A3sT7J

[Davide Prati]

This guy say that is a flash problem

http://www.wrichards.com/blog/2009/02/error-calling-method-on-npobject/

[Casey Pugh]

For me it seems to be a JSON parsing issue:

$.ajax({

      type: "GET",

      url: "http://www.iocose.org/apis/first.json",

      dataType: "jsonp",

      success: function(videos, status, ajax) {

        if (videos) {

          megaplaya.api_playQueue(videos);

        }

      },

      error: function() {

        console.log(arguments);

      }

     });

If you add an "error" callback to $.ajax, you'll see that jQuery fails to parse the JSON response. Here's the output I received: http://sht.tl/OmrhT

I'd check to make sure your server isnt doing anything funky with it's JSON response.

[Davide Prati]

thanks, I'll check the json response.

Another question, can I use the same example with an xml files?

dataType: "xml"

and then read an external xml file?

[Casey Pugh]

You can use any format you'd like as long as the end result is an array of objects containing a "url" attribute that gets passed to the video player.

Here's a basic example:

megaplaya.api_playQueue([

  { url: 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgKUS9AFemc' },

  { url: 'http://vimeo.com/25584378' },

  { url: 'http://www.flashcomguru.com/flash/bbc_reel_m420pVP6_768K.flv' }

])

[Jamie Wilkinson]

To clarify: that "dataType" param is part of jQuery's $.ajax function, which I believe handles xml, but might require some massaging.

I think your JSON issues might be caused because your JSON is not JSONP, which requires a ?callback=foobar parameter. jQuery is hiding some of this magic:

      url: "http://vimeo.com/api/v2/vhx/videos.json",

      dataType: "jsonp",

is functionally equivalent to:

url: "http://vimeo.com/api/v2/vhx/videos.json?callback=some_callback_function"

        dataType: "json",

The "Error calling method on NPObject" was an exception from the VHX megaplaya, but like Casey pointed out it was caused by the malformed JSON. We'll add more informative debugging to the player.

-jamiew

http://vhx.tv

[Davide Prati]

On Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:32:31 PM UTC+1, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:

To clarify: that "dataType" param is part of jQuery's $.ajax function, which I believe handles xml, but might require some massaging.

Yes, probably some massaging. I've written a script that parse the youtube api and generates a static file. Probably for this purpose an XML file it's better than a JSON file.The generated file is something like this http://www.iocose.org/files/videos.xml but it doesn't work.

I will work it out tomorrow,

thanks for your answer