Video Player FX
- 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 & suffle 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.
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- - Fully functional, no limitations
- - Easy to install on any website without Flash
- - XML configurable
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Non-Flash users:
To install this component for FREE in your website read the step by step instructions
Flash users:
If you want to use this component in a new or existing Flash project, read the Flash installation details
How to install this Video Player on your website
Step 1. SWF embedding
Download the player.zip archive and put all the files from this archive 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 archive 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 commercial archive available at FlashComponents.net
Instructions on how to use the Video Player component in Flash you will find here.
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 instalation 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 dispach events, but stay tuned for an update.
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