It’s been a while since I’ve had to post a streaming video but recently had to update a buddy’s website with his promotional video.  For copyright reasons I couldn’t post it on YouTube so here’s how I did it.

I have an ooooold version of Flash (Flash MX) so I didn’t have the ability to use the FLVPlayer component or any of the other multimedia plug-ins with the newer version of Flash so here’s the step by step instructions:

1. Buy Emicsoft FLV Converter:  Yes buying stuff sucks, but for $29 it’s well worth it as you can convert just about anything plus it has the ability to let you grab stuff from Google video and YouTube.
2. Download JW Player : Free flash video player (there’s a pro version as well).  Lotsa skinning and customization options as well.
3. Follow these instructions for using the JW Player (Sample code below as well)

Check out the end result on Richard Forget’s site.

<script type='text/javascript' src='video/swfobject.js'></script>
<script type='text/javascript'>
	var s1 = new SWFObject('video/player.swf','player','320','280','9');
	s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
	s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
	s1.addParam('flashvars','file=/flv/YOUR-FILE.flv');
	s1.write('preview');
</script>

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