I have been using Flowplayer for quite some time now, and really enjoy the options and features offered. Unfortunately, several of our clients recently requested the ability to allow users to upload media to our site and let them embed their custom player and playlist on their own site (or MySpace, FaceBook, Blog, etc.)
The Embed Tag feature works great, but it only embeds the basic player itself, without any visual playlist. On our sites, we use the JS Playlist plugin to create the HTML playlist, but we have not found any way to include an HTML playlist on an embedded copy of the player. All the files are included, just no way to tell what files are there and jump between them.
I have researched the issue from many angles, and have come to the conclusion that most sites do not allow inline JavaScript code or linking. Also, Inline Frames and Cross Domain Web Services seem to be restricted on most sites.
Is there any way to include a simple HTML playlist with the embed code? One possibility we were considering was to add javascript calls to the configuration and include the extra DIVs necessary to populate the playlist, will this work?
Alternatively, is there an easy way to use the Content plugin to create a playlist directly in the player window, as the files will be MP3s and won't require display area? If so, how should the content be coded so that clicks will change the current file being played?
An unknown player that I found has this feature (although not very well styled in my opinion), which can be demonstrated by including this in a document:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="800" height="600"><param name=movie value=http://www.jayworkplace.com/players/flash9.swf"><param name=quality value=high><param name=allowFullScreen value="true"><param name=FlashVars value="foo=michaeljackson&remoteDomain=net&playerStyle=ChangGong"><embed src=http://www.jayworkplace.com/players/flash9.swf" quality=high pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="600" allowFullScreen="true" FlashVars="foo=michaeljackson&remoteDomain=net&playerStyle=ChangGong"></embed></object>
Additionally, we would like to have the embeded player load the playlist dynamically from our site (as the user will update their media and we need those changes to persist to all copies of the widgets). Is there a way to load a playlist remotely every time the player is loaded (such as a webservice call, or even an asp.net handler that would output a valid RSS/XML playlist)?
I know this is a long post, but at this point I am having a hard time getting all the features implemented with the tools available and the security restrictions of web content. I truly appreciate any help in figuring this out.
The Embed Tag feature works great, but it only embeds the basic player itself, without any visual playlist. On our sites, we use the JS Playlist plugin to create the HTML playlist, but we have not found any way to include an HTML playlist on an embedded copy of the player. All the files are included, just no way to tell what files are there and jump between them.
I have researched the issue from many angles, and have come to the conclusion that most sites do not allow inline JavaScript code or linking. Also, Inline Frames and Cross Domain Web Services seem to be restricted on most sites.
Is there any way to include a simple HTML playlist with the embed code? One possibility we were considering was to add javascript calls to the configuration and include the extra DIVs necessary to populate the playlist, will this work?
Alternatively, is there an easy way to use the Content plugin to create a playlist directly in the player window, as the files will be MP3s and won't require display area? If so, how should the content be coded so that clicks will change the current file being played?
An unknown player that I found has this feature (although not very well styled in my opinion), which can be demonstrated by including this in a document:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="800" height="600"><param name=movie value=http://www.jayworkplace.com/players/flash9.swf"><param name=quality value=high><param name=allowFullScreen value="true"><param name=FlashVars value="foo=michaeljackson&remoteDomain=net&playerStyle=ChangGong"><embed src=http://www.jayworkplace.com/players/flash9.swf" quality=high pluginspage=http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="800" height="600" allowFullScreen="true" FlashVars="foo=michaeljackson&remoteDomain=net&playerStyle=ChangGong"></embed></object>
Additionally, we would like to have the embeded player load the playlist dynamically from our site (as the user will update their media and we need those changes to persist to all copies of the widgets). Is there a way to load a playlist remotely every time the player is loaded (such as a webservice call, or even an asp.net handler that would output a valid RSS/XML playlist)?
I know this is a long post, but at this point I am having a hard time getting all the features implemented with the tools available and the security restrictions of web content. I truly appreciate any help in figuring this out.