Free FLV/SWF flash based customizable video players (YouTube-like) for your web-site
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This page provides tutorial on customizing our free (free for non-commercial and personal use) XML-driven flash based video (FLV and SWF) players. There are 2 player types: single video player and multi-player (see below both types)
Single Video Player engine
(screenshot - click to open demo page for player)
View demo: http://bytescout.com/demo/free_flv_swf_player_demo/single_video_player.html
This video player engine is driven by XML settings file: single_video_player_data.xml
Format of single_video_player_data.xml is described and commented below:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Data>
<Player><Name>Free FLV, SWF Player</Name> - title of FLV or SWF video movie
<BaseColor>0x6F6F6F</BaseColor> - base color for player appearance
<VideoLoaderBarColor>0x8A0606</VideoLoaderBarColor> - video loader color
<PlayBarColor>0xFAE31F</PlayBarColor> - video playback navigation bar color
<VolumeBarColor>0xFAE31F</VolumeBarColor> - volume control color
<VolumeBarBackColor>0x8A0606</VolumeBarBackColor> - volume background control color
<PreviewPreloaderColor>0x8A0606</PreviewPreloaderColor> - preloader bar color
<BtnReplayCaption>Replay</BtnReplayCaption> - text for replay button which appears in the end of the video. IMPORTANT: do not use " or ' symbol in the title text
<BtnOpenSiteCaption>View Site</BtnOpenSiteCaption> - text for the second button appearing in the end of video, this button is used to open web-site. IMPORTANT: do not use " or ' symbol in the title text
<BtnOpenSiteURL>http://www.bytescout.com</BtnOpenSiteURL> - URL to open when user click on second button (see prev settings)
<LogoImage>my_sample_logo.png</LogoImage> - URL to logo image (jpg, gif, png) to "watermark" video
<LogoURL>http://bytescout.com/</LogoURL> - URL to open when user clicks on logo image
<LogoAlign>topleft</LogoAlign> - logo alignment setting. Available values: topright, topleft, bottomright, bottomleft, custom. If not set then bottomright is used by default. When When "custom" option is used then X and Y can be specified (see below)
<LogoXposition>160</LogoXposition> - When "custom" option is used then X position of logo image can be specified in this option
<LogoYposition>15</LogoYposition> - When "custom" option is used then Y position of logo image can be specified in this option
<LogoScale>100</LogoScale> - When "custom" option is used then scale factor for logo image can be specified in this option
