The Easiest Way to Stream FLV Files
August 28, 2010
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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:
- 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.
- Download JW Player : Free flash video player (there’s a pro version as well). Lotsa skinning and customization options as well.
- 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>
