JW FLV Media Player 4.3

JW FLV Media Player 4.3 serves as a tool chosen and used by YouTube back when they launched what is now the worlds biggest video sharing service. It provides playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player handling (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF).

It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive JavaScript API.

The skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving.

Installation:

1. Transfer the player.swf and swf object.js file from the ZIP to your website.
2. Embed the player in your HTML page.

Major Features:

1. Author (undefined): author of the video, shown in the display or playlist.
2. Date (undefined): publish date of the media file.
3. Description (undefined): text description of the file.
4. Duration (0): duration of the file in seconds.
5. File (undefined): location of the media file or playlist to play.
6. Image (undefined): location of a preview image; shown in display and playlist.
7. Link (undefined): url to an external page the display, control bar and playlist can link to.
8. Start (0): position in seconds where playback has to start.
9. Tags (undefined): keywords associated with the media file.
10. Title (undefined): title of the video, shown in the display or playlist.
11. Type (undefined): this is determines what type of media file this item is, and thus which model the player should use to determine playback. Supported values are sound, image, video, youtube, camera, http, lighttpd or rtmp.
12. Colors:
    • Back color (undefined): background color of the control bar and playlist. This is white with the default skin.
    • Front color (undefined): color of all icons and texts in the control bar and playlist.
    • Light color (undefined): color of an icon or text when you rollover it with the mouse.
    • Screen color (undefined): background color of the display.
13. Layout:
    • Control bar (bottom): position of the control bar. Can be set to bottom, over and none.
    • Height (400): height of the display in pixels. When resizing is set to false, this is the overall player height.
    • Playlist (none): position of the playlist. Can be set to bottom, over, right or none.
    • Playlist size (180): when below this refers to the height, when right this refers to the width of the playlist.
    • Skin (undefined): location of a SWF file with the player graphics.
    • Width (280): width of the display in pixels. When resizing is set to false, this is the overall player width.
14. Behavior:
    • Auto start (false): automatically start the player on load.
    • Buffer length (1): number of seconds of the file that has to be loaded before starting. Set this to a low value to enable instant-start and to a high value to get less mid-stream buffering.
    • Display click (play): what to do when one clicks the display. Can be play, link, fullscreen, none, mute, next. When set to none, the hand cursor is also not shown.
    • Fullscreen (false): full screen state of the player. This is a read-only flashvar, useful for plugins.
    • Icons (true): set this to false to hide the play button and buffering icon in the middle of the video.
    • Item (0): playlist item that should start to play. Use this to set a specific start-item.
    • Link target (_blank): browser frame where the links from display are opened in. Some possibilities are _self (same frame) , _blank (new browser window) or none (links are ignored in the player, so java script can handle it).
    • Logo (undefined): location of an external jpg, png or gif image to show in a corner of the display. With the default skin, this is top-right, but every skin can freely place the logo.
    • Mute (false): mute all sounds on startup. Is saved in a cookie.
    • Q on/off. Is saved in a cookie.
    • Repeat (none): set to list to play the entire playlist once, to always to continuously play the song/video/playlist and to single to continue repeating the selected file in a playlist.
    • Resizing (true): by default, the player will resize itself to fill the entire canvas. Set this to false if you don't want the player to resize (e.g. when you load the player in a Flex application).
    • Shuffle (false): shuffle playback of playlist items.
    • State (IDLE): current playback state of the player. Can be IDLE (no file loaded), BUFFERING (loading a file), PLAYING (playing a file), PAUSED (pausing playback; loading continues), COMPLETED (same as IDLE, but the file is player and loaded completely).
    • Stretching (uniform): defines how to resize images in the display. Can be none (no stretching), exact fit (disproportionate), uniform (stretch with black borders) or fill (uniform, but completely fill the display).
    • Volume (90): startup volume of the player. Can be 0 to 100. Is saved in a cookie.
15. External:
    • About text (undefined): text to show in the right click menu. Please do not change this if you don't have a commercial license! When undefined it shows the player version.
    • About link (Long Tail Video URL): url to link to from the right click menu.
    • Client (Flash MAC X,0,XXX,0): Version and platform of the Flash client plugin. Useful to check for e.g. MP4 playback or fullscreen capabilities.
    • Id (ply): ID of the player within the javascript DOM. Useful for javascript interaction. This is automatically set for Windows / MAC, but under Linux you'll have to set the flashvar.
    • Plugins (undefined): a powerful new feature, this is a comma-separated list of swf plugins to load (e.g. yousearch,viral). Each plugin has a unique ID and resides at plugins.longtail video.com. Go to the LongTailVideo AddOns section to see all available plugins.
    • Streamer (undefined): location of a server to use for streaming. Can be an RTMP application  or external PHP/ASP file to use for HTTP streaming. If set to lighttpd, the player presumes a Lighttpd server is used to stream videos.
    • Trace call (undefined): name of a javascript function that can be used for tracing the player activity. All events from the view, model and controller are sent there. Set this to flash to utilize the internal Flash tracing mechanism and to arthropod to use the Arthropod debugger.
    • Version (4.x.rrr): exact major release, minor release and revision number of the player. sent to javascript with every call. The revision number is always upped no matter the release, so 4.2.51 is the revision right after 4.1.50.

Enhancements:

1. Features:
   • Add transparency to display by setting an alpha screen color.
   • Offer plugins to claim screen space
2. Plugins:
   • Java script proxies
   • Meta-viewer
   • Hd switch
3. Enhancements:
   • Respect the user-defined duration, so chapter lists ate working
   • Set default x,y,width,height for plugins
   • Add a java script to enable tabbing into flash with screen readers
   • Check what player does if video.width > monitor.width
   • Set full screen width to video width if video width > monitor resolution/2
   • Add random() to YT proxy query string to fix multiple YT connections
   • Save the volume as a cookie again
   • Allow different streamer for each playlist entry
   • Http smoothness: no download bar, smaller buffer length and only show activity after a few seconds.
   • Only show overlaid playlist when idle/completed.
   • Rtmp redirection support
   • Add TextModel and extend models instead of having a flat list.
   • Plug-in vars-retrieval functionality introduces lots of changes
   • If the player is IDLE, display click should be PLAY
   • New button should respect width of the icon
   • Manage plugin stack in one place
   • Insert code documentation in wiki
   • Hd switch: kill start offset and add control-bar button
   • Add new flashvars and calls to test page
   • Add loading http switch
   • Implement ATOM enclosure
   • Add download link to source zip in readme.html
   • Add z-indexing to plugin array
   • Change all skins so custom buttons work
   • Change all plugins to use the new resizing while staying compatible with the old
   • Amend plugin screen space setting and custom control bar buttons to YT plugin tutorial
4. Bug fixes:
   • Check java script timeout - after plugin loading
   • Playlist still visible if set to none?
   • Check revolt plugin for cross domain check
   • Add one-time metadata load to RTMP
   • When lightcolor but no back color, playlist button rollouts error
   • Http model flv with startpos fail
   • With a small width, the time slider sticks to the fs button
   • Loading a lot of thumbs sometimes fails on IE6
   • Units are seen as numbers in configer - issue with parsing colors
   • Error in Display.as when moving from playlist entry with thumb to entry without one
   • GetID() of RTMPModel makes wrong assumptions on non-mp4 extensions
   • Attempting a seek before meta-data is received glitches HTTPModel playback
   • New plugin-screen space functionality breaks full screen scaling and introduces too many new flashvars
   • Overlaid play list pops up when returning from fullscreen
   • Accessibility: tighter mp3 sync + timeout needed
   • Having a front color but a skin without icon buttons will raise an error
   • Scroll bar jumps to 0 on an http seek
   • When reloading a YouTube item, the duration isnt sent again.
   • Playlist visible in full screen
   • Controlbar strangely offset in full screen
   • Substract the -1.xx from plugin names
   • Full screen in flex without resizing bugs
   • Control bars of skins without icons are colored.
   • This should work: flv
   • First play list item visible on top of video space
   • Display click=none must not have btton Mode / mouse Children entries
   • When switching items in fullscreen, the cursor pops up
   • MP3 extensions in uppercase hide the preview image
   • Config.width not set to display width on fullscreen with resizing
   • When exiting the player with [ESC] the mouse stays hidden
   • JS player Ready must be sent after plugin loading

Requirements: none