Mini FLV Player (AS2.0)

Modified as of April 12th 2008, if you downloaded it by now, please re-download – there was only a small fix for the fullscreen mode

I’ve put a lot of work into this player. I’ve experimented with quite a few interface designs looking for the right minimalist design that looks good, yet it integrates with any page design; that has a lot of features, yet it’s easy for everyone to use. This is what I’ve come up with.

Features (short version):

• XML driven
• Can override default xml path for multiple players on a single page
• Fully resizable (mantains aspect ratio)
• Just drag’n’drop in your own project
• Fullscreen support
• You can set to auto-play (or not)
• Supports HD videos
• Seekbar autohide option (can select number of seconds of inactivity for this feature
• Logo placeholder
• Control video smoothing from xml

Main features (long version):

• XML driven
• In case you have more than one player on your page and you wish to assign each one a different video, you can assign each one it’s separate xml file ( by setting the
  

  so.addVariable("VideoXmlPath","path/to/my.xml");

  
  

  variable when embedding the player, you can override the default path that the player looks for -> videodata.xml)

• Resizable at any dimensions you wish from javascript (the same .swf you can use as 320×240 or 800×600, you don’t need Adobe Flash to resize it – just resize It when embedding in the html page like:
  

  so = new SWFObject("simplevideoplayer.swf", "sotester",
  "[desired width]", "[desired height]", "9,0,115", "#000000");

  
  
• It doesn’t reference _root in any way so it’s safe to use it in your own projects. Also, it’s contained in a single MovieClip in the original project so it’s as easy as drag’n’drop. Also, when embedding, you can specify to take an exact size and not Stage width and height as default.
• If you’re using the video player in your own project, you can defer using xml and just create an object (called VideoAsset) and pass it to the player to play.
• High Definition videos are supported (any video encoded with H.264 codec -> mov, mp4, flv)
• The movie keeps it’s aspect ratio no matter what size the player is (you can see this in the example page on flashden)
• Fullscreen support
• Autoplay on/off support (the movie starts automatically after it loads if it’s ON, and displays the play button & first screen image if it s OFF )
• First screen image support (when autoplay is OFF , it appears centered/stretched)
• Logo holder
• You can control if/when the seekbar autohides (n seconds of user inactivity)
• You can control video smoothing (when resizing a video, if the video smoothing is disabled, the movie looks pixilated, but then again, if the movie is very high res and when resized for fullscreen it might make the movie run at a slower framerate because smoothing uses CPU , this switch gives you the ability to choose the best solution for you)
• You can set the background color when embedding the player with SWFObject (the last parameter is the background color of the flash object)

If you are interested in a more full-featured player complete with Deep Linking and Ad System, you might want to check out: