This Flash Communications Server powered FLV Player is suggested for use
when wanting to protect the video file being served. Progressive FLV videos
are cached on the users computer in thier temporary internet files, this
FCS FLV Player connects directly with your Flash Communications Server,
preventing caching and file copying. Either player available now for $99 or FREE with Small Business or Corporate Account
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Whats the diferrence between a component to serve video compared to using
the Flash authoring tool to modify an existing video FLV player ?
FCS FLV Player is designed for streaming with Macromedia Flash Communication
Server (FCS) .FLV video files only. It only requires the user to have only
Flash Version 6 player installed.
The differrence between a component and an .FLA file is the amount of control
you have over the features and design of your video player. A component
allows for reusable code to be easily modified from within flash, this is
a fast solution to implement video but, you cannot modify or add any additional
features or change basic design parts of the player.
Our FCS FLV Player with the source code allows you to easily change any
of the features or design of the player by editing the code in Flash MX
or Flash MX Pro 2004.
Step by step installation
Your player is ready to go when you recieve it, it can be uploaded to
your server, you can modify the FlashVars in the html file to point to
your FLV video file and it will work:
To change your movie link dynamically from HTML you can use variables
(FlashVars)
Your object tag will show:
Your Flash code that is hard coded can be turned into variables and sent
dynamically to the FCS FLV video player. In the example above we have
hidden the RTMP as a hardcoded variable in the Flash .FLA file but, you'll
also see how we simply // commented out the actual file location in the FLA file so, it
can be sent to flash dynamically, allowing us to serve many movies using
only a single player.
1. Open your html document and set the connection path to your
FCS .FLV video file as seen below:
You can see the javascript used to open a larger sized browser window from
within your flash movie in the HTML code above. You will also notice the
path to your .FLV movies which is what you modify to change the video you
want to play (NOTE: Do not add the .FLV extension in your path to the video
file) :
FCS Installation
1. In your FCS application folder on your server create a new folder
called video
2. Upload the main.asc file into this video folder
3. Now, create another new folder inside the folder you just created
and call it streams
4. Lastly, create a folder called MyMovies inside the streams folder
and upload your FLV video files to this MyMovies directory
How to control FCS FLV Player by modifying the source code
You can completely control player functionality and design by modifying
the FLA files actionscript code using Flash MX or Flash MX 2004:
Our FCS FLV Player supports the following features:
ABOUT An optional button to show a logo or other related information when the about button is clicked
AUTOPLAY When you pass the flash variable AP=off the FLV file will load but, be paused so, you can embed multiple video players into a single page and using flashvars choose which ones will play when the page loads and which videos will be paused.
MUTE When the mute button is clicked all audio is turned off and the video is paused
PLAY Starts when the video begins or when the play button is clicked after a movie has been paused
STOP Is when the video ends or when the stop/zoom buton is clicked,
this returns the movie being played to the begining
PAUSE This button will pause the video at the point in the timeline
and when clicking the play button, the video, will play from the point on the movies
timeline that the pause button was clicked
BUFFER The buffer value can be hard coded or set as a variable using FlashVars
SCRUBBING Moves the video timeline every time the video scrubber
is moved to a position on the movies timeline
ZOOM The Zoom button opens a larger sized browser window and stops
the smaller player from playing, cuurently the zoom turns the 320x240 video player to a popup 640x480 video player
Tracking the end of the video or total time is done automatically by
FCS communicating dirctly with the SWF file.
Additional variables can be added easily by including & sybols between variables. The example below shows how we use 2 variables to tell the popup zoom .SWF file that the movie has been resized to be larger and sets the controls centered on the bottom of the video without getting larger, the controls are constrained to the original size.
The bufferring can be hard coded into the FCS powered player or passed
as a Flash variable and tooltip text can be changed inside the fla file.
All of the code is clearly visible in the first frame of the top 3 layers, completely sperating the code from the design/colors of the player itself.
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