Mini FLV Player with Ad System and Deep Linking

Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you one of the newest and most effective ad revenue sources – Video Ads! These types of ads present 100% coverage because the users MUST see the ad before they will be able to see the actual video – so, they won’t get ignored like other types of ads (banners, google ads..etc). You may see this as an investment, not as just buying a FLV Player.

NOTE : On flashden, the DEEP LINKING (send a mail from within the player to a friend) feature will NOT work because it needs php. You will find a full working version here (complete with some charts -> statistics recorded from ads) : http://aletud.dreamhosters.com/alex/miniflvplayer/

Basically, as I said in the video tutorial, this is not an upgrade to the Mini FLV Player, but another project, an extension or plug-in if you will. To be honest I spent more time developing these 2 new features than I did developing the player. What you get:

Player features:

• Can play FLV , MOV, MP4 (anything encoded with H.264)
• 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

Ad system features:

• Smart system – ads played to a single users are recorded, and that user will not see the same ad twice
• You can use both pre-rolls (video ad before actual video) and/or post-rolls (video ad after actual video)
• Complex reporting system
  Standard reported values:
  
  • Type of ad (pre-roll or post-roll)
  • Type of action of that ad (clicked or played)
  • User’s screen resolution
  • User’s system language
  • User’s operating system
  • Everything about the ad (name, id, advertiser, frequency….etc)
  • Any custom values you would like (e.g. user ip, username – any custom vars that will help you integrate the ad system into your own system – @see video tutorial)

Deep linking features:

• PHP script that already is set up to send emails (no modification required)
• You can use the PHP mail function (recommended) or SMTP
• Customizable HTML template that the users will receive in their email.
• Flash email validation (before sending any bogus data to the server)

Or if you’re interested only by the player without the extra features you might want to check out: