free package
Fully functional, no restrictions
Easy to install on any website
XML customizable
GPL Licensed
Watermarked :
paid package
NO watermark:
plus a Flash component (AS3) which can be used in Flash projects
Features
- a completely skinnable media player with more than 100 customizable properties
- supports both audio (mp3) and video (flv)
- easy to embed into any website at your custom size without any Flash knowledge
- enable/disable or establish any order for the control buttons (play, pause, volume slider, etc)
- a css customizable list of media items (show/hide the list with a single click on the controls)
- repeat & shuffle control buttons
- enable/disable slide out control buttons
- top/center/bottom positions for the controls and transparency percentage
- watermark & play-pause center buttons
- fonts, colors, sizes and many other properties through style.css file
Design your own skin, slice it, and add it to this player as easy as editing an XML file.
Installation instructions for:
How to install this Video Player on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the player.zip package and put all the files from this package into the same folder with the HTML file in which you want the component to be embedded.
You should know first of all that the SWF file is the one that actually represents the component, while the other files (settings.xml, media.xml and JPGs in the assets folder) are the assets that the SWF file uses.
A short explanation on how SWFs and XMLs interacts you will find here.
Open your HTML file with a text editor and insert somewhere between the <head> </head> tags the following lines:
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.scale = "noscale";
params.salign = "tl";
params.wmode = "transparent";
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF("player.swf", "PlayerDiv", "600", "360", "9.0.0", false, flashvars, params, attributes);
</script>
For a fast and easy publishing, the best thing to do is to have the SWF file, the HTML file which embeds the SWF, the swfobject.js file, and the assets that the SWF uses (XMLs, JPGs folder) in the same folder.
If that is not possible, please read this detailed article on how to specify the paths correctly.
The above code itself isn’t enough to publish the SWF file on your webpage. You just need to add a div somewhere in the body section of your page (between the <body> </body> tags of your HTML file).
So, in a specific location of your HTML body section insert this div:
<div id="PlayerDiv"></div>
Step 2. Customization
You’ll be able to define a maximum size of 1680 in width and 1050 in height in the 3rd and 4th arguments of the swfobject.embedSWF() function above. Usually the same values as for appWidth and appHeight (which you will set below).
Now you will have to define the properties of your Video Player.
You can do that by editing the settings.xml file, or much simpler, set your values on the Live Demo above and press Generate button, then select all (Ctrl+A) and copy-paste over the existing content of settings.xml file.
In addition to these customizable variables on the Live Demo you have some 50 more properties you can customize in the style.css file, regarding fonts, colors, sizes of the list, subtitle and info section.
If you intend to have multiple Video Players on the same page, for the same player.swf file you’ll need to have different settings.
If you want to design your own skin all you have to do to integrate it into this player is to slice the design so for each button you will have a different image (JPG, GIF, etc). Then in the skin.xml file, for each control (button) you will be able to define three states for each button (out, over, press).
All is left to do is to put your own video or audio clips (media items), add the details like thumb image, description title, description text, watermark, subtitle, start image. All these through the media.xml file. In the media.xml file from the downloaded package you will see how these details are specified so you could change them with your own custom details. You can delete a detail if you don't want to have it (like subtitle tag, or watermark)
You can have as many media clips as you like. To add a new clip add a new item tag in the XML file.
Here’s how an XML entry (corresponding to an image) should look:
<item>
<url value="video/sample.flv"/>
<watermark value="assets/watermark/sample.png"/>
<startImage value="assets/startimage/sample.gif"/>
<subtitleURL value="assets/subtitles/sub.xml"/>
<infoThumb value="assets/infothumb/sample.gif"/>
<infoTitle><![CDATA[<infoTitle>Sample Title</infoTitle>]]></infoTitle>
<infoDesc><![CDATA[<infoDesc>Sample description</infoDesc>]]></infoDesc>
</item>
If you’ll want to use the Video Player in Flash projects (FLA files), the Video Player FX is available as a Flash component (MXP file) in the paid package
Instructions on how to use the Video Player component in Flash you will find here.
Make sure your Wordpress version is greater than 2.8 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
1. There are two files to download:
a. WordPress Plugin that you have to install and activate
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your wp-content folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called video-player-fx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, go to Video Player FX from the Settings tab from your WordPress Dashboard and update the path accordingly
4. Add [video-player-fx][/video-player-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page.
5. If you want to make the Video Player FX part of your theme, edit the template files and add <?php videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code(); ?> where you want it to show up
6. Customize your Video Player FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite wp-content/flashxml/video-player-fx/settings.xml
7. To use your own videos, upload them to wp-content/flashxml/video-player-fx/video and update the wp-content/flashxml/video-player-fx/media.xml file accordingly
Additional settings file
To embed the Video Player FX more than once, you will need another settings file and (probably) another set of videos. Let's assume your new file is called settings2.xml. Add [video-player-fx settings="settings2.xml"][/video-player-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the file name as the first argument of the videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code("settings2.xml"); ?>).
No Flash support text
To support visitors without Adobe Flash Player, you can provide alternative content by adding the text between [video-player-fx] and [/video-player-fx]. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the text as the second argument of the videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code() function call (for example <?php videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code("","Alternative content"); ?>).
If you have PHP4
To make it work with PHP4, add [video-player-fx width="600" height="300"][/video-player-fx] where you want the Flash to show up in your post/page. If you made the Flash part of your theme, add the width and height as the third and fourth argument of the videoplayerfx_echo_embed_code() function call. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 600 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package. Once you'll do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the wp-content/flashxml/video-player-fx/ folder.
Make sure your Joomla version is 1.5 and your hosting provider is using PHP5.
Joomla Module Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Module that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called videoplayerfx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different than the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Customize your Video Player FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/videoplayerfx/settings.xml
Joomla Plugin Instructions:
1. There are two files to download (both under GPL License):
a. Joomla Plugin that you have to install and enable
b. Free package
2. Create a new folder inside your Joomla folder called flashxml, inside this folder create a new one called videoplayerfx and copy the content of the free package there
3. If you copied the free package to a location different from the one above, update the Path from module's parameters accordingly
4. Add {videoplayerfx}{/videoplayerfx} where you want the Flash to show up in your article
5. Customize your Video Player FX using the Live Demo from the top of this page. Generate the settings.xml text and use it to overwrite flashxml/videoplayerfx/settings.xml
6. The default name for the settings file is settings.xml, but if you want to use another file (for example settings2.xml), specify the name like this: {videoplayerfx settings="settings2.xml"}{/videoplayerfx} where you want the component to show up in your article
7. In some cases the width and height will not be read from the settings.xml file but you can specify them like this: {videoplayerfx width="400" height="300"}{/videoplayerfx}. Don't forget to provide your own width and height values, since 400 and 300 are just examples.
Getting rid of the FlashXML.net label
To remove the FlashXML.net label from the top-left corner you'll need to buy the paid package.
Once you will do that, simply use the SWF file from the paid package to overwrite the SWF file from the flashxml/videoplayerfx/ folder.
Below you will see instructions on how to install and use the Video Player Component in Flash (available for Flash CS3, CS4, and Flash Player 9 or later).
For basic instructions on how to integrate the Video Player’s SWF file into HTML/PHP, click here.
You can watch an installation video tutorial of a very similar component in Flash (3D Carousel Menu FX) by clicking here.
In this video you will see:
- how to create an instance of the component on the stage: from the Components panel (Ctrl+F7) drag & drop the component on the stage
- how to give a name to that instance for further use in ActionScript: click on the component instance on the stage and from the Properties panel (Ctrl+F3) enter a name in the text input
- how to access the properties of the component (read or modify) during different moments of your Flash application
Any property of the Component could be accessed that way. The names of the properties are identical with the ones from the settings.xml file.
The properties of the component can be of any of the three types: Number, String, Boolean. We assume it’s intuitive of which type each property is.
Warning! Setting the parameters of the component in the Component Inspector window (Shift+F7) and in the same time having a settings.xml file populated with different values for each property, the properties from the settings.xml file will have priority (meaning that a parameter set in the Component Inspector will be ignored if that parameter is also defined in the XML file)
For now, this component doesn't dispatch events, but stay tuned for an update.
Do you have a question?
you will get an answer in 24 hours, tops.
Cindy
Posted 2 Months AgoHi.. I would like to suggest a feature and upgrade the player to be HTML5 compatible, so people can play videos using their mobile devices :)
Hi,
Thank you for your suggestion.
Susan
Posted 2 Months AgoThanks for getting back to me.
In that case, and in the meantime, which file would I edit to remove the words “Press ESC to exit full screen mode” that appear when they first click the control button to enable full-screen mode? Is that in the settings.xml file? Or the javascript file? That way, people would be forced to use the button on the control slider to exit full screen mode. That button seems to work just fine to return to regular mode… and, it eliminates the embarassment of telling them to click something (the ESC key) that doesn’t work.
Hi,
I’m sorry but we don’t have anyone available for doing something like this. We’ll try to fix this as soon as possible.
Marco
Posted 2 Months Agosorry, im typing too fast, i meant to say RTMP
Hi,
I’m sorry but this feature is not implemented.
Marco
Posted 2 Months AgoHello, does this video player support video streaming via RMTP? and does the player support DRM protected video? thanks :)
Sruti
Posted 2 Months Agohi it’s me again…Thanks for the information but that doesn’t really solve my problem… okay so if it IS a problem with the player how can i get around it…? because i can’t expect people not to click ESC :) when they want to return to their normal wondow.
Hi,
I’m sorry but there’s nothing we can do about it right now. We’re working on improving the video player but we don’t know yet when it will be done.
Cindy
Posted 2 Months AgoGreat job on the video.. I already have it up and working on my site :) link text
Susan
Posted 2 Months AgoHi, again. Well, I managed to get the video to show “full-screen”... however, I’m having the same trouble everyone else is having in getting the thing to size back down properly when hitting the “esc” key.
In other posts, you’ve responded to the problem by stating “The problem with ESC is a Flash Player issue. When you press the ESC key in a browser the SWF doesn’t catches the event. If you open only the SWF and press ESC you’ll see that it will work.”
Unfortunately, our site visitors aren’t opening just the SWF – they’re viewing the video in the web browser. Therefore, we need a way to make it size-down properly in the browser itself. How can this be done? Are you working on a fix that might be coming in a future update? If not, is there (at least) some way to remove the words “Press ESC to exit full screen mode” that appear when they first click the control button to enable full-screen mode? That way, they would be forced to use the button on the control slider which works just fine.
Thanks!
Hi,
We’re working on improving this component but it will take a while until is ready, we can’t know for sure when it’s done.
Greg
Posted 2 Months AgoHi,
First of all thank you for your answer ;).
I’m trying to integrate on the same page the carousel and the video component and both component use settings.xml but I think that I can rename the settings.xml of the carousel so it would be ok for this problem. I also try to have several gallery for the video player, I mean the user clic on a thumbnail picture, the player is loaded with the related video of the thumbnail picture.
If you have any suggestions about how I can separate gallery (groups of video) and be able to load the one I want it would be great (my idea was to create a media.xml for each group of video and generate the name of the media files according the thumbnail picture clicked, for example : click on thumbpic1.jpg give the file media1.xml to the player, but it seems not possible since I can’t change the name of the media file).
Congrats for your great job on all of these components.
Thanks
Regards,
Greg
Hi,
You could place different Video Players in different folders with different media files and settings. When you click on those thumbnail picture you could load the video player from a different location. Here is a tutorial to use a component from a different location.
susan james
Posted 2 Months AgoHi. I have the commercial video player program, but am having trouble getting “full screen mode” to work. When I click on the icon on the control bar to go full-screen, nothing happens. Is there something else I’m supposed to do somewhere? I only saw one reference to “full screen” mode in the Settings.xml file and I have it set to “true”. Am I supposed to change something else? Do I need to create a separate “full screen” size of the video and upload that to the “videos” folder?
Thanks!
sukhen
Posted 2 Months AgoCan i use video dynamic from mysql database?please rp.
Hi,
What do you want to use for that? PHP, ASP or something else?