flowplayer - free video player for your website - your own personal youtube
Posted on March 16, 2008
Filed Under Blogging/Web Design, Ruppe Radio Ramblings |
FlowPlayer is a Free video player for the web. It will work inside your HTML based website. It’s like having your own personal ‘youtube.’ The player supports all the features you’ll possibly need and these features can be configured the way you like. Everything can be scripted via JavaScript. The user will experience progressive downloading, solid streaming, long play features, playlists, fullscreen mode … FlowPlayer has everything you’ll need to provide rich user experience…
{FlowPlayer is free and distributed under the GPL 3 license for non-commercial use. For commercial use we offer a commercial license.}
FlowPlayer Features:
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Support for Multimedia: FLV, SWF, MP3, MP4, H.264 video, JPG and PNG
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Flexible Configuration: FlowPlayer has tons of configuration options. You can immediately start with the defaults and start tweaking with the options.
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Progessive Download: The simplest way to provide Flash video to your users. This is how YouTube does it.
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Streaming: FlowPlayer supports streaming servers like the Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5, allowing random seeking to arbitrary positions in the video timeline.
- Thumbnails: Provide quick access to specific chapters in a long lasting movie.
- Playlists: Control several videos in one player instance. Or ombine multiple videos as one stream with the help of a streaming server. You can also include images in playlists.
- Scripting API: Control the player with JavaScript and from other Flash movies.
- Prevention of Inline Linking: Protection against hotlinking or direct linking of video and image files.
- Advertising Support: Player allows insertion of advertising in the video stream. Video controls can be disabled for a specific clip. You can have hyperlinks assigned to an advertising clip.
- Full Screen Mode: A real fullscreen mode without maximized browser windows. You can also make you own in-window fullscreens with scripting if you like.
Here’s a screenshot of the player being used in the default mode with a light skin:

later,

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