Description: This player has been tested with m4v and flv. It's not compatible with f4v. The video in the demo is an 854x480 flv.
Major New Features of This Player:
1. It has a dual buffering system. In this example, it loads 20 seconds (this is adjustable) for an initial buffer and then after the buffer is set to 1 second. Without this feature, a large pre buffer is relatively useless, as the video will stop even when the play head is far from the end of the loaded amount.
2. The player has a open-in-new-window full screen method. I think the playback is far superior to the traditional fullScreen method. You do have the option though, within the text file, to set the fullScreen to simply use the standard method.
3. Larger size (vs. my other recent players). It's 854x480, so it can play those size videos without any resizing.
4. New control bar. It has a matte finish instead of shiny. The volume control is also new.
Brief Description:
1. Easy to set up. 2. Flash is not required, all features are set with a text file. 3. The control bar can be set to fade out or slide out of view 4. Autosizing: The player detects and resizes videos to fit the player dimensions while maintaining the original video's ratio, so the video will never look distorted 5. Videos can be set to wide or standard format 6. The alpha (transparency) of the control bar, buttons, and scroll bar can all be changed 7. The player can be resized within or outside of Flash (within, just change the MC size, outside of Flash just change the width and height in the object code located in the html [more details included in the instructions]) 8. The player can be pasted into existing Flash files 9. The player will play all size videos including HD720 and 1080p
Quick Set Up:
- 1.1 Open the included text file. On the first line you will see:
video=http://www.bigstrawhat.com/sampleVideo.flv
Replace the address with the address of your video.
- 1.2 Create a new folder (ex. video1) on your server and upload the text file, swf file, html file and your video file to that folder on your server. Now your video will play.
It's not necessary to change any other values in the text file, but if you would like to here they are:
Text Controls (Note: 1 = true, 0 = false):
autoFit=0 (if 1 this will automatically size the video to fit the player) fitHeight=0 (if 1 video sized to height of player) fitWidth=0 (if 1 video sized to width of player) (if all fit values 0, video plays original size)
fullScreenButtonVisible=1 (if 1, button is visible) newWindowFullScreen=1 (if 1 fullscreen occurs in new window, if 0 traditional)
smoothingOn=0 (if 1 smoothing on) volumeDefault=40 (set number between 0 and 100)
invisibleTimer=1 (if 1 timer controls when control bar disappears) invisibleTimerSeconds=3 (set to number of seconds until bar disappears)
slidePlayer=0 (if 1 control bar slides down) fadePlayer=1 (if 1 control bar fades out)
scrubBarGlowing=0 (if 1 glow given to search bar) draggerAlwaysVisible=0 (if 1 search knob always visible)
playersAlpha=100 (transparency of control bar, set 0-100) buttonsAlpha=100 (transparency of buttons, set 0-100) scrubberAlpha=100 (transparency of scrubber, set 0-100) scrubRate=150 (set lower to see more frames when searching) bufferTimeValue=20 (initial buffer time in seconds) bufferAfterLoadValue=1 (buffer time after initial buffer, I recommend 1) dynamicBufferingIndicator=1 (if 1 displays buffer animation at startup)
(Note, the player already automatically has a preview from the 1st second or two of the clip, but if you want a specific preview image you can set it below) optionalPreviewImage= (put address of image between quotes)
caption1=Name of Video
AS3 Compatibility:
You can load this into a AS3 file the same way you would load html content. < less
Major New Features of This Player:
1. It has a dual buffering system. In this example, it loads 20 seconds (this is adjustable) for an initial buffer and then after the buffer is set to 1 second. Without this feature, a large pre buffer is relatively useless, as the video will stop even when the play head is far from the end of the loaded amount.
2. The player has a open-in-new-window full screen method. I think the playback is far superior to the traditional fullScreen method. You do have the option though, within the text file, to set the fullScreen to simply use the standard method.
3. Larger size (vs. my other recent players). It's 854x480, so it can play those size videos without any resizing.
4. New control bar. It has a matte finish instead of shiny. The volume control is also new.
Brief Description:
1. Easy to set up.
2. Flash is not required, all features are set with a text file.
3. The control bar can be set to fade out or slide out of view
4. Autosizing: The player detects and resizes videos to fit the player dimensions while maintaining the original video's ratio, so the video will never look distorted
5. Videos can be set to wide or standard format
6. The alpha (transparency) of the control bar, buttons, and scroll bar can all be changed
7. The player can be resized within or outside of Flash (within, just change the MC size, outside of Flash just change the width and height in the object code located in the html [more details included in the instructions])
8. The player can be pasted into existing Flash files
9. The player will play all size videos including HD720 and 1080p
Quick Set Up:
- 1.1 Open the included text file. On the first line you will see:
video=http://www.bigstrawhat.com/sampleVideo.flv
Replace the address with the address of your video.
- 1.2 Create a new folder (ex. video1) on your server and upload the text file, swf file, html file and your video file to that folder on your server. Now your video will play.
It's not necessary to change any other values in the text file, but if you would like to here they are:
Text Controls (Note: 1 = true, 0 = false):
autoFit=0 (if 1 this will automatically size the video to fit the player)
fitHeight=0 (if 1 video sized to height of player)
fitWidth=0 (if 1 video sized to width of player)
(if all fit values 0, video plays original size)
fullScreenButtonVisible=1 (if 1, button is visible)
newWindowFullScreen=1 (if 1 fullscreen occurs in new window, if 0 traditional)
smoothingOn=0 (if 1 smoothing on)
volumeDefault=40 (set number between 0 and 100)
invisibleTimer=1 (if 1 timer controls when control bar disappears)
invisibleTimerSeconds=3 (set to number of seconds until bar disappears)
slidePlayer=0 (if 1 control bar slides down)
fadePlayer=1 (if 1 control bar fades out)
scrubBarGlowing=0 (if 1 glow given to search bar)
draggerAlwaysVisible=0 (if 1 search knob always visible)
playersAlpha=100 (transparency of control bar, set 0-100)
buttonsAlpha=100 (transparency of buttons, set 0-100)
scrubberAlpha=100 (transparency of scrubber, set 0-100)
scrubRate=150 (set lower to see more frames when searching)
bufferTimeValue=20 (initial buffer time in seconds)
bufferAfterLoadValue=1 (buffer time after initial buffer, I recommend 1)
dynamicBufferingIndicator=1 (if 1 displays buffer animation at startup)
(Note, the player already automatically has a preview from the 1st second or two of the clip, but if you want a specific preview image you can set it below)
optionalPreviewImage= (put address of image between quotes)
caption1=Name of Video
AS3 Compatibility:
You can load this into a AS3 file the same way you would load html content. < less