Toggle autoplay
I just added a new feature to the FLV Player. On the FLV Player download page you can now select whether you want your FLV Player to automatically start playing your movie or to wait for the user to specifically tell it too do so.
I just added a new feature to the FLV Player. On the FLV Player download page you can now select whether you want your FLV Player to automatically start playing your movie or to wait for the user to specifically tell it too do so.
November 1st, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Theo,
This is great, thanks!
Another idea, along with the info button, perhaps the file size or video title could be included.
Do you have a similar player for audio?
November 16th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Hey Theo. The player works great. I have used it at http://www.pgv.com/media.html
However there’s an issue, since many of the visitors to that particular site are from the indian subcontinent, and internet connections may not always be highspeed, is it possible to have an option to toggle preloading the flv file? I’d like the option to not preload a video for sites often accessed in countries with not so advanced networks.
basically, the player would start streaming/loading the video only after being clicked if the option were available.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:43 am
Hi Leslie,
great to see FLVplayer in usage on your website. You have some great suggestions for the player! I’m certainly interested in adding the file size and video title in the info text. Good suggestion as well to build in an option to withhold the buffering until the user explicitly starts the video. I will look at it in more detail after the weekend. But expect an update real soon.
November 18th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
I’ve updated the FLVPlayer, it no longer automatically starts buffering when autoplay is off!
November 27th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Thanks theo, it works great. Much appreciated.
November 27th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
I will probably incorporate it in another client’s site eventually
December 19th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Hey Theo;
I like this player and it is great. Is there a parameter that we can change that will allow us to keep the status bar on the bottom of the page but auto hide play/pause button? I am thinking it could be done with the parameter but not sure.
Thanks
Chris
BTW… This is a really great tool.
December 19th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Hi Chris,
thanks for your compliments. The feature that you request is not yet available through a parameter, but I will make it so. I’ll update the player tomorrow and leave a message here when it’s done.
Have fun with the FLV Player and let me now when you have it online somewhere. I’m interested in seeing how it’s used.
March 29th, 2008 at 5:44 am
hi Theo,
again - great-player, really.
but it would be even greater, with these simple feature:
- setting watermark as parameter
- a little bit cleaner bottom-bar (e.g. simple graphical position pointer instead of the textual, and no white, but transparency)
[i would like to use it on my friend-composer homepage.]
best regards,
augustyn
April 15th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Hi, congrats for your amazing player !!! Really the easiest to use among those I tested !
I have some suggestions to make this player more user friendly :
- when autostart is set to false, the object should show the first image of the video instead of a black screen
- when autostart is set to false, the ‘play’ button should be displayed by default and not only when mouse is over
Best regards,
Jay
July 5th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
Excellent little player, exactly what I was looking for. Even though I know enough AS3 to write a video player, I KNEW someone had already done what I had in mind … and BETTER than I could have done! Great work Theo
March 28th, 2009 at 1:55 am
Hi!
Very good player.
but… for some reason it does not work (anymore? with FireFox. Tried both with mac and windows. It does work fine with Safari (Mac) and IE (Windows).
But no image at all with FireFox (both Win and Mac).
August 25th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Really nice player!
It would be nice if I could specify a parameter containing the absolute path of the movie (ie c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mysite\videos), in a way to put my videos in a protected folder (unreachable from the web), with restricted access.
Do you think it could be done?
How can I protect my movies from direct download by unauthorized?
I tried the ASP streaming technique (http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/9678/File-size-limit-) but it seems not to work with your player…
Thank you
September 19th, 2009 at 7:04 am
it works great.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:05 am
Very good player.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:05 am
This is great, thanks!
November 8th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
I really like this player. Just one thing I can’t work out: when ‘autoplay’ is false, I get a black rectangle where the video would be. (This is with Firefox under Ubuntu Linux, and a screencast generated using vnc2flv which uses the flash screen video codec).
Is there a way to specify a ‘thumbnail’ or ‘poster’ image to display before the user clicks the Play button?
April 30th, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Is there a way to disable the busy animation?
I’d like to use your player in connection with an experiment that involves an eye-tracker monitor (Tobii) and the busy animation obviously attracts the attention of a subject watching a video. If there was a way to disable it that would be great.
Thanks for a great player!
August 17th, 2010 at 1:52 am
Hi,
Great player and easy to use!
Does it support Repeat play?
Br, Fernando