Flash video player for video streaming

Question

I need a flash video player for our public site where users will share videos. The video usage model is similar to youtube as far as video part is concerned. Users will upload and share videos. Users will browse and play all shared videos as well.

The videos will be streamed from the server and our app is a .NET/C#/JQuery application.

We have 3 options:

1) Either buy a commercial flash player 
2) Customize a open source player or use free player and customize its gui 
3) Develop our own (time consuming and last resort)

I am required to find a flash video player with these requirements:

• Player should work in all major browsers (IE, FF, Chrome, Safari)
• Player should have way to inject Advertisement clips when playing a video file
• Light weight and easy to integrate
• Must support streaming and scale
• Plus all other basic features of a flash video player

I would highly appreciate your time. Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Go with JWplayer, it's the most widely used and the player YouTube started with before they blew up and was able to hire teams of developers to make there own player.

JWPlayer supports everything you noted including advertisements and skins (you can even make and use your own skins for a completely unique look). JWplayer is free for non-commercial use so you can download a free copy and test it out before buying the commercial license. Once you buy the license the JWplayer watermark that appears when you start the video will go away and it will be white=labeled.