Flash Video Player – BVB36
Saturday
May 30, 2009
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In episode 34 Rich showed you how to embed video from services such as Viddler, YouTube and Vimeo with the Video Embedder plugin.
Perhaps you would like to have personal branded flash player on your site. Or maybe you would like to be able to serve videos from your own server or hosting account without the third-party brands.
The Flash Video Player plugin for Wordpress may be the answer. With this plugin you can host your flash encoded videos on a server of your choice, alter a few options to better match the player to your site, or even designate specific default values in the WP dashboard. You can even add your own logo or watermark to the player. The player has a full options menu for customization that includes:
- Custom Skin Support
- Full Plugin Support
- Custom Player Colors
- Custom Watermark Logo
- Poster Frames
- Floating Controls
When you install this plugin, you’ll want to know this very valuable embed tag for placing the video in your post on the page you want to display:
[flashvideo file=videos/my-video.flv /]
An entire list of options/customization can be found at the mac-dev.net web site.
Here are two examples. The first is a flash file hosted on Rich’s server:
The second is a file hosted at YouTube. You can see that it will deliver both types of files in the same way.
Views
Rich thinks more people should check out Delivr. This site lets you share web site URLs with other users that may browse sites more often from their mobile phones. Delivr lets you share these with most of the popular social sites, as well as send it directly to a phone number.
The best part of the site is that it creates a .pdf flyer that you can post or distribute to share the site. The flyer includes an image of the web site to be shared, the main URL, the delivr URL and — most importantly — a scan code image of the site URL. People that come across the flyer on a bulletin board, countertop or elsewhere can use their scan code software and camera on their phone to directly access the web site.
Rich’s profile at Delivr is richpalmer.delivr.com.
Blues
Damon Fowler
“Sugar Shack” (mp3)
from “Sugar Shack”
(Blind Pig Records)
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