
FlowPlayer is a Flash media player. You can use it on your HTML pages to play video files. “It is your personal YouTube”. The FP is released under the GPL 3 license for non-commercial use, so it’s free. Some of the features are:
- Support for multiple media
- FLV, SWF, MP3, MP4, H.264 video, JPG and PNG
- Flexible configuration
- FlowPlayer has tons of configuration options. You can immediately start with the defaults and start tweaking with the options.
- Progressive download
- The simplest way to provide Flash video to your users. This is how YouTube does it.
- Streaming
- FlowPlayer supports streaming servers like the Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5, allowing random seeking to arbitrary positions in the video timeline.
- Thumbnails
- Provide quick access to specific chapters in a long lasting movie
- Playlists
- Control several videos in one player instance. Or ombine multiple videos as one stream with the help of a streaming server. You can also include images in playlists.
- Scripting API
- Control the player with JavaScript and from other Flash movies.
- Prevention of inline linking
- Protection against hotlinking or direct linking of video and image files.
- Advertising support
- Player allows insertion of advertising in the video stream. Video controls can be disabled for a specific clip. You can have hyperlinks assigned to an advertising clip.
- Full screen mode
- A real fullscreen mode without maximized browser windows. You can also make you own in-window fullscreens with scripting if you like.
- Check and download.



















9 May, 2008 at 8:42 pm
I don’t get it. I downloaded it but I don’t understand what to do with the files. Do you know a place that I can just upload swf files and then embed a player?
10 May, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hi,
Have you checked this page http://flowplayer.org/player/index.html
The flowplayer it’s a nice one, but you have other. And you can also try the online video providers like revver.com, which you only need to upload the files, and then you put a link on your site to show the video. I mention revver.com, cause they have a cool feature, which let’s you customize their own player, where you can insert for example your logo. Check this post to see how it looks like http://flashenabledblog.com/2008/05/04/tutorial-actionscript-3-mouse-tracking-video-tutorial/