August 7, 2008

Free Flash Video Player

I'm working at a radio & TV station. Our website has our daily TV news broadcast on it. The video we have on there is flash video and I've been given the task of improving our flash player. I've decided to go with the JW FLV Media Player. Which just happens to be the same player our website developer wanted to go with.

The JW FLV Media Player is free for non commercial use. It has a lot of great features. The most useful feature for me is you can create playlists. In this playlist you can tell the flv player to not allow certain videos to be skipped. So when someone chooses to watch the news, the can select any segment they want or start at the beginning and watch all of it, one segment after another. The files in the playlist that can't be skipped will be commercials. The JW FLV Media Player can also be skinned so you can give it any look you want. You can also add a logo which will be placed in the upper right corner. The code is pretty easy to figure out and there is also a setup wizard and lots of examples of how to use all the variables. You can use java or embed code to add it to any website. Thanks to the embed code, it's very easy to add any video, and the player, to a blog or forum post. So if you've been looking to add your own video to a website or blog, the JW FLV Media Player could be just what you're looking for.