Can anyone give a concise instruction on how I can have a flv play from my html page please?
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A:
Wrap a flash player around it, such as Flowplayer. There currently is no other way; browsers can't just render an FLV by itself.
See the installation guide for Flowplayer, taking you step-by-step on how to place the video directly into your HTML.
Matchu
2010-02-12 00:25:12
ok, flowplayer thanks..what does that entail? will user be able to view the video with flash player then?
neeep
2010-02-12 00:32:34
thanks! will do. kisses.
neeep
2010-02-12 00:33:57
Yep. Flowplayer is a Flash file that plays the video and puts the controls (play, pause, volume, etc) around it. It requires the Flash plugin, but if you have an FLV file, you have no other choice.
Matchu
2010-02-12 00:34:12
Glad it worked :) Be sure to click on the check mark next to an answer if it solved the problem, so that the poster gets credit :)
Matchu
2010-02-12 00:34:50
A:
Insert an SWF object into your HTML and assign the FLV in the attributes as the video that will play.
Jeremy Petzold
2010-02-12 00:25:45
Insert an SWF object into your HTML and assign the FLV in the attributes as the video that will playYou're going to have to be a bit more concise please?
neeep
2010-02-12 00:28:13
See my answer - it means that you must embed a Flash-based video player (an SWF file) into your HTML code, and tell it where the FLV video lives on your server. You can't just directly embed an FLV file.
Matchu
2010-02-12 00:30:15
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Another really popular Flash player is the JW Player, at http://www.longtailvideo.com/ . They have a nice setup wizard that generates the code you need.
Frederick
2010-02-12 00:50:38
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I'm fairly certain that shadowbox can also play FLV files: http://www.shadowbox-js.com/
It's clean, minimal and fairly simple to setup.
rectangular
2010-10-19 23:46:31
Shadowbox looks great. It does the lightbox effect I wanted and the commercial license is only $20 as opposed to $90 for JW Player or $60 for the FLVPlayer.com commercial license.
EfficionDave
2010-10-21 14:50:36
CORRECTION: the shadowbox actually uses the JW Player and you still have to buy the JW Player if you're going to use it for commercial purposes. I really don't understand why there are any Free/Cheap flash video players out there. I don't need anything fancy, just simple and clean.
EfficionDave
2010-10-21 15:57:01