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Video player (flow player or jw), which one is best for growing site?

We are making a site like twitter/facebook and it has an API, obviously. Which one has the best API implementation for developers so if we shared with others they could easily use it with their own skins? So far I like flow player, but jw has more features. I need your help to decide on which one to go for. JW player or flow player? ...

Parse Album Art from xml

I am trying to create a music player that reads an rss feed. The xml elements include itunes namespace tags. I am trying to display the album art from the feed. I am able to fetch the contents of the itunes::image tag but it displays on stage as html like so "(http://www.mysite.com/images/multimedia/podcasts/60x60%5Fpodrods.jpg)". How do...

Shoutcast Radio Player - actionscript based flash player, how to autoplay "false" it?

Hello Masters Of Web Development again. Today my question is flash based. I have no experience in actionscript but due some conditions, I need to work a little with it. I've found only one flash player, that plays my Shoutcast stream directly to my site. I've designed it the way I like, put my shoutcast url in it and everything I wanted....

Disappearing components??

Hi All, I have two problems that I have no idea how to fix... Flex. I have a canvas which contains a single myComponentA. A myComponentA contains a MyComponentB. The myComponentB contains a number of myComponentA's giving a tree structure...Ok so far. The structure is stored as an XML file. 1) When I load a big (60 or so components)...

Frame Accurate Browser Launchable Video Player ... ?

I have a requirement where I need to enable playback (full screen) of a h.264 MPEG4 (thanks for the correction!) video from a local network, launchable from a browser link on a Windows workstation, and be frame accurate. By frame accurate I mean that I need to be able to scrub through the video in the same way you would with a vtr, stop...

Embedd .wav files in HTML page in all browsers (no controls)

Hi, all. I need to play few wav files on button click. I found solution working in IE but it requires QickTime plugin for firefox. Is there any other way? <html> <head> <script> function DHTMLSound(surl) { document.getElementById("dummyspan").innerHTML= "<embed src='"+surl+"' hidden=true autostart=true loop=false>"; } ...

Problem stopping a Player in JMF

I recently asked a question about controlling the volume of a Java audio clip and it was suggested that I try JMF. As I'm using an old JVM (1.4) and only interested in playing WAV files, JMF was a perfect solution and has greatly simplified the code to load, play and control the volume of audio clips in my application. But I'm having t...

Best YouTube embedded player? (based on Chromeless API)

Hi. I'm building a website that will include embedded videos, and I've decided to use YouTube for video hosting as it's got the best functionality and the largest community. However, I would like to use a custom embedded player (using the Chromeless API) because the official YouTube player is too associated with amateur sites. Features ...

How to programatically detect earpiece in iphone?

I'm currently working on a project that involves playing music from the iphone music library within the app inside. I'm using MPMediaPickerController to allow the user to select their music and play it using the iPod music player within the iPhone. However, i ran into problem when the user insert his earpiece and removes it. The music w...

Flex video player buffering

am new to flex.. am creating one video player.. I need set the preloader for this component when ever the video is buffering... Please post the answers or related links.. Thanks Aswath ...

playing sound without the need to install media player extension

Hello, I am trying to embed a sound in an auction website. I want that everytime someone's bid, a sound will be played. I tried a simple tag with given ID, and then sound.play() through javascript. The sound is playing, but in IE, a new user is asked to install a media player extension "if he/she trusts the website". Is there a way...

installation error in player stage , saying jpeg support not included .

how to include jpeg support in player stage installaion in debian squeeze ...

ActionScript 3 - Static Versus Instance Methods

Hi guys, I'm working on a video player and I initially developed the player with everything in the .FLA file with no classes. Then I started modularizing my player into classes and realised that my classes are static methods rather than instance methods which doesn't seem to be needed in my player. My question is - is this a bad design ...

Android - Playing mp3 from byte[]

I have my mp3 in byte[] (downloaded from service) and I would like to play it on my device similar to how you play files: MediaPlayer mp = new MediaPlayer(); mp.setDataSource(PATH_TO_FILE); mp.prepare(); mp.start(); But I can't seem to find a way to do it... I wouldn't mind saving file to phone and than playing it, I am just hopi...

flv player with rtmp for commercial use

Hi, I want to find a simple, flv player for our websites. We are streaming from an rtmp server. We don't want a branded player like Vimeo etc. ...

Android Default Media Player Access.

All, I'm coding an app that works with the current status of the Android Media Player, basically, I'm trying to find a way to obtain, for example, the current track information or the track next on the library/playlist. Thing is, I couldn't find any way to "connect" to the app, I read about some services and copying an Android MP file t...

How do I access Windows Media Player Library programmatically in C#/WPF?

I need to access and present the information from Windows Media Player library, from my C#/WPF application. How do I do this programmatically in C#/WPF? ...

I want to embed video files (.mp4, m4v, avi) onto a website...and allow people to play it like normal.

How can I do that? I would like them to be able to click play, pause, volume, and of course...fullscreen. I heard you can do this with QuickTime or something? Anyone have any suggestions? EDIT: These video files are on other people's servers. (We're a search engine) I just want to pass take the URL of the .mp4 file...and do some java...

Setting online radio player to play stream without downloading the playlist

Hi everyone.... I have a created an online radio station using icecast2 and edcast.... When i connect to the server with the the url "mysite:8000/stream.m3u" the browser first downloads the .m3u playlist and then we have to open it with our desired player. I've also seen some sites where you just click on the play button of the playe...

YouTube Player API: How to get duration of a loaded/cued video without playing it?

Hi, I'm not able to get the correct video duration/length (in seconds) of a loaded/cued video via the getDuration() method of the YouTube Player API; the same method, however, returns a valid value once the video starts playing! Wondering how YouTube is able to show the valid duration of a loaded/cued video. When I load this HTML page ...