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Description: FLV player allows users to input .flv urls to play
Author: John Bezanis
Added: October 19th 2007
Version: Flash 8

This FLV player allows users to input .flv urls to play. The source fla has line by line commenting explaining what is going on. The xhtml code of the embedded applet can be changed to allow a specified movie to load by default. The xhtml code is shown below with the blue text. If no default video is selected, a box pops up prompting the user to enter a flv to play.
Features of the player:

Fullscreen option
full volume control
ability to open another video
timer showing current progress as well as the video's length
progress slider that scales on player resize
progress slider shows percentage loaded
arrow keys allow user to update the volume, as well as the current play position
playpause button with alternating graphics
videos scale to fit the player at the best dimensions
control bar disappears after no mouse movement is detected after a set amount of time
customized right click menu

XHTML code with a starting video and autoplay specified:
<object data="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?video=http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/typing_short.flv&startvolume=100&autoplay=true"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" >
<param name="movie" value="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?video=http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/typing_short.flv&startvolume=100&autoplay=true" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
</object>
The starting video and starting volume are specified with the blue code.

XHTML code with no default video specified:
<object data="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="360" >
<param name="movie" value="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
</object>

Download the source file below:

Download Source File
Download The Built .swf

Comments

Your player solve one flv file only but I want to play from a play list. Can you give me an example about using xml files to interactive with movie database. Thanks.

October 30th 2007 01:10AM - Mr.Duong

Is the mouse meant to dissapear when the the tools on the video player fade out? or is it just me...

Btw, nice script guys!

November 4th 2007 12:11AM - Aaron

Yes the mouse is supposed to disappear. It reappears when the user moves the mouse.

November 4th 2007 09:11AM - John

How do I set the starting volume level in the HTML code:

<object data="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?video=http://www.drreichner.com/flash/discovery.flv"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" VOLUME="50" width="480" height="360" >

<param name="movie" value="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?video=http://www.drreichner.com/flash/discovery.flv" />
<param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"/>
</object>

Dan Reichner

November 4th 2007 10:11PM - Dan

Works great! I reccommend it. I do wish the mouse did not stay invisable after the video finished though.

November 11th 2007 01:11PM - Mike

After the VIDEO is done, can the player container refresh to an static IMAGE as oppose to stay BLACK, I know that you can EDIT the video and let it end on a JPEG; would that be the only way that this can be achieved?

Thank you!

November 23rd 2007 02:11AM - FxMaster

I tried to download source file but there is a problem! Could somebody achive to download?

November 28th 2007 06:11PM - Ben

Recently, Adobe has announced Flash Lite 3 with flv support. But there is not flv player at this time. I think, this great player could be THE MOBILE FLV PLAYER but needs some file select option... I'm just thinking...

December 10th 2007 11:12AM - pakito2

Great stuff! Thanks!

But, any easy way to get rtmp streams to play using this?

December 14th 2007 08:12PM - rtideas

I want to play give the name of the selected flv files then how can i do this??

December 24th 2007 08:12AM - Virendra Chouhan

Some flv files will not play but will in other players, any idea why?

Great player

January 6th 2008 07:01PM - Steve

Can you post the url of one that doesn't work? I'll look into it.

January 6th 2008 10:01PM - John

Hi John,

Sorry my problem, it was odd characters in the links that caused the problem nothing to do with the player, works perfectly

Many Thanks

Steve

January 10th 2008 01:01AM - Steve

Hi guys, I have an issue, would this player play files from a streaming server?

I have a code which is in an IFrame, But I was wondering is this could play thought the site and through the above player so I could have full screen functionality.

The could is like this

<iframe width='320' height='240' frameborder='0' marginheight='0' marginwidth='0' noresize scrolling=no src='http://ravenas.razorstream.com:80/eve-service/player.jspx?enc=iJ0GvegjTojzMRjckT4SA%3D%3D&h=240&w=320'></iframe>

I am looking into if this bit would work, I can not break it down

'http://ravenas.razorstream.com:80/eve-service/player.jspx?enc=iJ0GvegjTojzMRjckT4SA%3D%3D&h=240&w=320'

Could You Help Please

February 10th 2008 06:02AM - Ben

I downloaded the source file, but my flash software says its an unrecognised file format.

May I ask, what version of flash are you using?

February 18th 2008 10:02AM - Paul

how to do creat playlist flv file with xmal

February 20th 2008 05:02AM - dom

How do I get the .flv to rewind to the start? I have tried inserting into the object
&autoPlay=false&autoRewind=true
But this does not seem to work.
Graet player though

February 22nd 2008 01:02AM - beginner

@beginner

Yeah for some reason auto rewind won't work with this FLV player so you'll have to do it yourself. :p

February 22nd 2008 12:02PM - gametages

Thanks Gametags I have tried to adda rewind button but what I have tried so far did not work. I am unsure how to go about it and am really coding in the dark.

Any help gratefully recieved

February 23rd 2008 09:02AM - beginner

Hi, is there any way to make the controller stay on top of the movie always? Thanks ... Great player

February 29th 2008 03:02PM - Doc

Thanks for script but I have web pages with 2 movies on them and I want them to start when clicked,otherwise,they will play both when page is loaded.what can I add to script?

March 3rd 2008 05:03AM - stupid

Is this freeware? Thanks.

March 7th 2008 09:03AM - dev

this one work with Joomla or not

March 11th 2008 04:03AM - rimnam

I want to make player buffer..ie if the video is big i want to make the time bar wait for particular time to buffer and play...like you tube player.can you help me in this issue

March 11th 2008 08:03AM - lineesh

Thanks! wonderful, very versatile player. kudos- Ray

March 12th 2008 04:03PM - ray

Please suggest us how to use it with xml playlist ?

March 15th 2008 04:03AM - afroz

Great working file, just one question, can we get rid of the black bars when the video and the swf are not the same size? For example show the FLV video no matter what is the width and height written on the object code.

March 17th 2008 06:03PM - Al

The mouse doesn't disappear over the player, it disappears over the ENTIRE PAGE the player is ON!

I had to TAB through this to get a message typed in.

The player may be stopped, but it's not OFF.

March 18th 2008 10:03AM - suijuris

This is such a great idea putting in my website. I have been thinking about this for long.

April 8th 2008 09:04AM - premium

The mouse doesn't disappear over the player, it disappears over the ENTIRE PAGE the player is ON! I had to TAB through this to get a message typed in. The player may be stopped, but it's not OFF.

The same problem happens to me.

Mouse just disappears. I can not see it when not in use.

April 8th 2008 09:04AM - plastic

I've removed the mouse hiding feature.

April 8th 2008 03:04PM - John

Thanks for the flv player it was just what I needed. With some modifications and an xml slide show I was able to make a flv video playlist that has about 10 videos now and more to come. I have learned alot from this site. Thanks

April 9th 2008 11:04PM - greg

Update: The user can now specify starting volume of the player.

April 15th 2008 07:04PM - John

Great player:D

Only one question, how could i get the player not to autostart the movies?

April 20th 2008 02:04PM - Mathias Furre Gr

Mathias, thanks for the suggestion. feature added. It's autoplay=false in the html.

April 20th 2008 11:04PM - John

mmhhh, the autoplay=false seems not works fine...can you check please?

April 21st 2008 02:04PM - Frank

Frank, it's working fine for me. Try redownloading the flash files. Maybe you have an old copy.

April 21st 2008 11:04PM - John

I was happy for few seconds.i downloaded new flash file,I've put html script and I started to cry:my backround is black,so it's the player when page is loaded.Anyway,it's a great player!

May 15th 2008 07:05AM - stupid

<a href="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?video=http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/video/typing_short.flv&size=false&aplay=true&autorew=false&title="/>hhhh <
This exemple works good with your old swf file ,I want to put links on my page but it doesn't allow full screen,can you help a little?

May 15th 2008 08:05AM - stupid

Great script! I'm just wondering if it's possible to remove the "play URL" link on the video.

May 15th 2008 10:05AM - Omar

Thank you so much for this real easy to use player. Unfortunately it distorts 16:9 video content into 4:3. Is there any parameter to set the aspect ratio or the height and width?

May 21st 2008 12:05PM - Sven Eisenhardt

Thank you for this nice player. I have the same problem as Sven above. My 16:9 gets 4:3. If I try to solve this by changing the width, height in the html only the player box get size changed. The video stays the same.

May 28th 2008 03:05PM - Ake

Hi great player just wondering if theres away of adding your own logo

June 24th 2008 02:06PM - tajio

Thank you

July 5th 2008 03:07AM - 2ked

Thank you for the player and I love the UI. Simple to use and to the point. I have run into an issue where I need to add buffering. Can you help me with this?

July 15th 2008 03:07PM - Robert Fidler

Nice player but the video's aspect ratio is not maintained.

For Sven and Ake, to fix this problem, you can replace line 88 and 90 in function setObjects() with
vidplayer._height = vidplayer._width / vidscale;

Also replace line 100 and 102 with
vidplayer._width = vidplayer._height * vidscale;

July 21st 2008 03:07PM - Che-Bin

Hi John Bezanis, Thanks a lot

July 22nd 2008 04:07AM - Vasu

John you don

August 4th 2008 01:08AM - Zentrox

i like to embed the player into my web page. Can i control the position where to start the video? is it possible that the player only start buffering from this position? Thanks

August 10th 2008 08:08PM - Phong

Really thanks..I am finding a player which is open-sourced for a whole week

August 26th 2008 12:08AM - Daniel

This is awesome John!!! Just wondering if this player supports RTMP streaming Video. Ex. rtmp://mymedia.mydomain.com/folder/myfile.flv

Thanks and really appreciate it

August 27th 2008 12:08PM - MrT

Hi guys....don't know how many people still check this but here goes.
Some people asked how to make the video player buffer, well this is the answer:

At some point in the Actionscript on frame 2 on the player layer enter the following:
ns.setBufferTime(3);

You can change the number to what ever you want, it reprasents the number of seconds that the video is going to buffer before starting or resuming play.

I entered the line in row 35 if any one cares....

I hope this helps out.
This player is completely customizable...and I love playing with it and changing it around...

I LOVE IT!
Thanks John.

September 1st 2008 02:09PM - Yonatan Ran

It's very good,I am studying...

September 22nd 2008 05:09AM - Alend

but no support chinese charset

September 22nd 2008 05:09AM - Alend

Thanks..&& internet explorer in the not playing.Helpp :(:(

October 20th 2008 12:10PM - @hmed

Try this player in Firefox 3, with flashplayer version 10 (The latest up to 2008 Oct.)

The player is not working, it just did show up.

The player work fine on Firefox 2 and IE 6 with flashplayer 10.

I guess some work has to be done to fix it if we all still want to use it.

October 23rd 2008 02:10PM - Paul Fung

Is there any way to control this player with javascript?

October 28th 2008 05:10PM - richard

I think this guy is trying to steal your work, unless it's you...

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/471685

November 30th 2008 02:11PM - The Copy-Cop

Can I put the name of the flv in the code of the Fla
how can do this? thanks for this great work

December 2nd 2008 11:12AM - alby

thanks Yonatan Ran for you tip,
i allready make it work I just add my flv name in the openurl movieclip instead of the http://
thanks john a lot

December 2nd 2008 02:12PM - alby

It'll be good if some additional samples added for FLV player with some standard features...

December 30th 2008 11:12AM - Holy

Hey guys, a new media player is in the works. It may be a while before it is completed, but it is going to be real nice. AS3

December 30th 2008 12:12PM - John

Hi -

Where does the XHTML go? Within the ActionScript? Or a seperate file that the flv. links to?

January 19th 2009 03:01PM - Alisa

thanks a lot

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i have copy and paste an authorized html link of an tv streaming
... everything works fine....but when the file is playing...if you click in the FULL SCREEN botton...it opens a new window with authors webpage... how can i avoid it>?? or maybe disable the full scren? Can someone help me?? please?

March 22nd 2009 01:03AM - Humberto

thanx a lot

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Hi guys the player is awesome does anybody place a more developed version?

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Sarge,
try the new flash media player:
http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/samples/flashcs3/Flash_Media_Player

April 23rd 2009 08:04AM - John

What have i to do, that the player plays my flv file automatically! i DONT want the url questeion! just want to say the swf play THIS flv video!

greetings fish

May 19th 2009 06:05PM - Fish

Hello,
Your code is great ! But I have an issue for video in HD (900 x 500 pixel) relation size. It deform the video. The video is deformed. Can you help me?

Thanks a lot.

Laurent

June 4th 2009 07:06AM - Laurent

Hello John,

I am trying to save the "37-flvplayer.swf" file onto my server. I saved a copy and uploaded it. I changed the code so that it is pointing to the location of the .swf file. When i go to that page the video does not show up.

My question is how can i host the player to my server and allow the video to show up? If it leave the default "<object data="http://www.bezzmedia.com/swfspot/resources/37-flvplayer.swf?...." then it shows up perfectly.

Thanks in advance for the help!
Steve

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Thanks very much for the informative tutorial.
As I know, we can also make FLV player auto play and edit the volume via flashvar code. Check playerdiy.com -
http://www.playerdiy.com/
It offers 46 ways to edit the FLV player's skin and playback options here - http://www.playerdiy.com/configuration/

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