Simple Video Flash Player Module for Joomla

Simple Video Flash Player Module 1.6.5 (new)

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

Over 200.000 Downloads!

Features
*Plays a single video file from a URL or unlimited video files from a XML playlist
*Plays youtube videos
*It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF)

Settings
*Change player settings
*Video file properties
*Playlist settings
*Display a preview image
*Insert your own logo on movie load
*Url to an external page
*Autostart, Repeat and Shuffle settings

Update version 1.6
*Player update (Version 4.4)
*Display a fallback image
*Controllbar settings(Over/Bottom)
*Skin settings
*Plugin settings

Bugfix version 1.6
*Fix playlistsize (Thanks to Piet http://www.oilwatch.org)
*IE fix (Thanks to http://blog.manchumahara.com/)

Tested with rhuk_milkyway-Template (Firefox3, IE6, IE7, IE8).

Documentation

1. How do I install the Simple Flash Video Player Module?

Install the Simple Flash Video Player Module "mod_simple_video_flash_player.zip" using the module installer in the Joomla! administrative backend.

2. What formats does the Simple Flash Video Player Module support?

Single Video File

The following file formats are supported:

FLV7 (video)
FLV8 (video)
H.264 (video)
Youtube (video)
MP3 (audio)
AAC (audio)
JPG (images)
GIF (images)
PNG (images)

Multi Video Playlist
The following playlist types are supported:

ASX
ATOM
RSS + iTunes
RSS + Media
SMIL
XSPF

3. How can i create a XML playlist?

Have a look to the specification an examples:

ASX (specifications + example)
ATOM (specifications + example)
RSS + iTunes (specifications + example)
RSS + Media (specifications + example)
SMIL (specifications + example)
XSPF (specifications + example)

Here is an overview of all the tags of each format the player processes, and the flashvars they correspond to:

Flashvars	XSPF	RSS	SMIL	ASX	ATOM
author	creator	itunes:author / media:credit	#.author	author	media:credit
date	meta rel=’date’	pubDate	#.date	param name='date'	published
description	annotation	description	#.alt	abstract	summary
duration	duration	itunes:duration / media:content	#.dur	duration	media:content
file	location	enclosure / media:content	#.src	ref	media:content
link	info	link	anchor	moreinfo	link rel='alternate'
image	image	media:thumbnail	img	param name=’image’	media:thumbnail
start	meta rel=’start’	media:content	#.begin	starttime	media:content
tags	meta rel=’tags’	itunes:keywords / media:keywords	#.tags	param name='tags'	media:keywords
title	title	title	#.title	title	title
type	meta rel=’type’	media:meta	#.type	param name=’type’	media:meta
meta	meta rel='xxx'	media:meta	#.xxx	param name=’xxx’	media:meta

Each format has a meta element, which can be used to load additional data into a playlist. For example, the accessibility plugin can pick up the captions meta elements from playlists, so you can build a playlist of files that contain closed captions.

Example RSS media playlist
http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw/upload/mrss.xml

4. How can i create a youtube playlist?

Go to the Youtube APIs and Tools page http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/index.html
-click playlist get
-add your youtube playlist id (look at your account)
-click submit

Simple Video Flash Player Youtube Playlist

Example Youtube playlist
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/C54F7969C30DF6C3

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Simple Video Flash Player Module 1.6.5 (new)

Over 200.000 Downloads!

Documentation