Flv

9/17/2009: Please visit the new home for the Hana Flv Player and Hana Flv Player Plugin Forum.

As part of ongoing personal project for creating and embedding Flash Video in my WordPress, I have decided to create a WordPress plugin to help me writing embed tags inside the articles. If you are interested on my previous quests, check out below links.

Download Hana Flv Player Plugin v2.0 (Advanced Samples)

Change Log

V 2.0 (7/23/2009) :
1. For easier Hana Flv Video tag creation, new popup dialog is added. You can directly define the values using the form and click OK to create the tag. Please see the screenshot 4 for the example. The buttons in the editor will only appear for WP v2.5+
v 1.8 (7/21/2009) :
1. Fixed Minor bug with FlowPlayer v2 . It was not properly showing under IE7.
2. FlowPlayer v3.1.1 player is added. Originally intended to upgrade the old version, but decided to leave old version due to some minor differences.
v 1.7: Adding additional attributes for the players more advanced options. Also added a method to show FLV movie within the theme template files (such as sidebar.php)
v 1.5: Adding FLV Player Maxi
v 1.1: Lots of debuging.
v 1.0: Initial Release with OS FLV (GPL) , FlowPlayer (GPL) flv players

Now you can easily embed the FLV Flash videos in your WordPress Blog. I have packaged the two GPL FLV Flash player, OS FLV and FlowPlayer. So you can use them freely without worries even for the commercial purpose unlike the JW player – If you have AdSense or display ads showing , you should purchase the player according to its website.

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Note: This instruction requires you to have basic skills and ideas how to upload data to your website and access them in the browser. And basic knowledge in HTML. I am currently preparing WordPress plugin for FLV player. So come back later if you are interested.

Now that I have converted my old video files into Flash Video files, what do I need to do to add them in my website? I wondered.

The answer: You will need to have the Flash swf component that will play your FLV video files which will be embeded in your web page. And install or save it in your website. And add addtional javascript or embed elements in your webpage. See Wikipedia page for more information.

So I spent some time googling and tried to find free or open source (So I can probably improve it after I learn Flash 🙂 ) FLV flash player. In this Wikipedia Flash Video page, there are several players listed.

Web-Anatomy FLV Player : for Web, but Free only for Non-Commercial
Applian FLV Player : This is Desktop FLV player which we don’t need
Martijn DeVisser’s FLV Player : Also desktop player
Sonettic Cinema FLV Player : It has a free version . Doesn’t say anything about non-commercial , so I guess I can use it, but it says something about the latest Flash Player is required to play it. Hmm.
Wimpy Desktop FLV Player : Desktop player
Flowplayer embeddable video player : This is for web.
OS FLV – the Open Source, embeddable FLV player : This is for web, too
Moyea Desktop Flash Player : Desktop Player
nFLV Player – Able to play unrewindable/unforwardable .flv videos : Desktop player
SWF & FLV Player (Mac OS-X) : Desktop for Mac OS-X

Also another player , JW Media Player is well-known but it is also free only for non-commercial. According to the website, you should buy commercial liscence if you have ads in your website such as Adsense or display banners. So basically this is not a solution for me at least.

And I do not like such limitation. Free for all cases is what I would really want. So I choose FlowPlayer and OS FLV as they are under GPL licenses.
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