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The JW FLV MediaPlayer (built with Adobe’s Flash) is an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website. It supports playback of FLV, MP3, SWF, JPG, PNG and GIF file types.
Note: - The files to be played back have to be uploaded to a web server for the Media Player to pick up. Having a link to a file on your hard drive will not work.
More comprehensive instructions can be found at the JW FLV MediaPlayer’s(JW) home site.
Below are quick examples and hints to embed this player into a WebPlus 10 or X2 site. By far the quickest method is to use the wizard on JW home site here
To play a single FLV file
As a test click the top dropdown list in the wizard to select “MediaPlayer with a single FLV”
Copy the code below the preview screen and open up WP in a new site and select the “Insert HTML code” button, should be second up on the left, click and drag a square box on the page.
The “attach HTML code” window will open; click the button top right “paste to body”, OK out this window and preview the page. You should see the player appear, click the player screen to start and stop the video.
This is the code you should be pasting into the body
<embed
src="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/player.swf"
width="320"
height="250"
allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true"
flashvars="width=320&height=250&file=/upload/player.flv"
/>
To attach you FLV file to this player instead of the video you are viewing, within the wizard under “The basics” options is a line named “file” put here the full address of where your file can be located by the mediaplayer i.e. http://www.dgdown.plus.com/mediaplayer/video.flv
This is an address of a test file on my site, copy this code into the wizard to try if you have not uploaded a file yet.
Under “The basics” options there are 6 other sections to change the look or behaviour of the MediaPlayer. Have a look through these options and if you change any and before previewing the video again, click the “update preview & code” button.
By previewing the player you are doing 2 things:-
1. Checking to see if the player works if you change the address of the files
2. To see the outcome of your changes within the wizard of how it looks
Hint – If you do not want the controlbar to show when the video is playing, in the wizard under the “Playlist appearance” > “displayheight” option, set this to the same height as in the “The basics” section. The controlbar will auto-hide on top of the video.
JW FLV MediaPlayer used in WebPlus
JW Intro
Single FLV with controlbar
Single FLV with auto-hide controlbar