Flash Video Player Recomendations?

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I've googled for a free flash video player to put into my FrontPage site and
come up with a ton of choices. I was just wondering if anyone has a
particular one they use with their site that works really well with
FrontPage?

Thanks
 
Matt said:
I've googled for a free flash video player to put into my FrontPage site
and come up with a ton of choices. I was just wondering if anyone has a
particular one they use with their site that works really well with
FrontPage?

Thanks
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I can't comment as far as using video on my websites but as a user, for
sites that do use Flash video, I use the standard Adobe Flash player
(browser plug-in) e.g. for you-tube, and that is sufficient for me.

As far as inserting the media file in Frontpage, I think that's fairly
simple, although being an older product, it may not allow insertion of "FLV"
files directly through the interface and you may need to write the code
snippet to put the file on the page, such as:

<object id="flash1" data="path/to/your/flash/file.swf" height="200"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200">
<param name="movie" value="path/to/your/URL/file.swf" />
</object>

Just change the parameters above to suit your media file. i.e. the 'data=',
and "name="

Note you have to insert the *.swf file, not the FLV file but this link
discusses this issue (
'http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33190954/issue-with-flash-file.aspx)
 
Andrew Murray said:
I can't comment as far as using video on my websites but as a user, for
sites that do use Flash video, I use the standard Adobe Flash player
(browser plug-in) e.g. for you-tube, and that is sufficient for me.

As far as inserting the media file in Frontpage, I think that's fairly
simple, although being an older product, it may not allow insertion of
"FLV" files directly through the interface and you may need to write the
code snippet to put the file on the page, such as:

<object id="flash1" data="path/to/your/flash/file.swf" height="200"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200">
<param name="movie" value="path/to/your/URL/file.swf" />
</object>

Just change the parameters above to suit your media file. i.e. the
'data=', and "name="

Note you have to insert the *.swf file, not the FLV file but this link
discusses this issue (
'http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/33190954/issue-with-flash-file.aspx)
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Thanks! I was actually referring to a SWF file (imbedded flash player for my
web page) but I just didn't ask the right question.

One quick question though... if I want to have say 3 videos on one page
would I just repeat the code for the .swf file in three different areas and
have each one pointing to a different .flv file?
 
I've googled for a freeflashvideoplayerto put into my FrontPage site and
come up with a ton of choices. I was just wondering if anyone has a
particular one they use with their site that works really well with
FrontPage?

Thanks
Click to expand...

I use playerdiy.com on my website to show people my video tutorial. It
works fine - http://www.playerdiy.com/
 
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