Category: Video and Multimedia

JW FLV player that switches playlists on the fly

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The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. I’m posting examples of some of the players I’ve created lately, using the latest version of the player and SWFObject.

Versions

  • Player: JW FLV player 4.6
  • SWFObject: 2.1
  • Red5 Streaming server using RTMPT or RTMP

    • This is an example of a current-version player that changes playlists on the fly when you click a link or button.

    I can’t show you a working demo because I don’t have an external Red5 server but here is how it looks. When the page loads, the player loads the first playlist.

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    JW FLV player 4.6: Two or more players on a page

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    The JW FLV player is a versatile, customizable and scriptable flash video player, available from Longtailvideo.com. The player was recently upgraded, and many details in the scripting and playlists had to change to remain compatible. Since it can be difficult to figure out the details of the necessary changes, I’m posting examples of some of the players I’ve created lately, using the latest version of the player and SWFObject.

    Versions

    • Player: JW FLV player 4.6
    • SWFObject: 2.1
    • Red5 Streaming server using RTMPT or RTMP

    This is an example of how to put two or more JW FLV players on a page, side by side. I can’t show you a working demo because I don’t have an external Red5 server but here is how it looks.

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    Import long narration files into Presenter

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    Adobe Presenter is an add-on to Powerpoint that produces Articulate-like Flash presentations from your Powerpoint slides. At around $500.00 list price it’s out of reach for a lot of content developers, but with an academic discount the price drops considerably, to about $150, and it starts to be a viable option for SME’s to purchase for Rapid Elearning development.

    But even with the lower price, it may not be convenient for everyone involved in producing a course to have Presenter installed, so it is useful to know how to import and sync narration created outside Presenter. This way, a narrator can take their own laptop and a USB microphone off into a completely quiet room, which often makes more difference in the quality of the audio than almost anything else.

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    JW Player example: two streaming flash players that clip to hard stop in a single page

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    NOTE this has been superceded by these articles:

    The authors of our learning modules often want to embed one one or more videos embedded in a page. A typical request is to be able to “edit” the video using a duration set in the playist, so that the player shows only a few seconds of the video, focusing on only the relevant material for the current page.

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    Troubleshooting Jeroen Wijering’s FLV player in your HTML

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    There are some errors that come up time and time again when working with Jeroen Wijering’s Flash Video Player. Here’s how to troubleshoot them. I’ll keep adding to the list as time permits. Click the images to see a larger view.

    Typical problems:

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