Topic: Streaming your own video file

[PLAYBOY]

@akc42 Man you made a whole new mod I wish i could do it like you did but im not even gonna try.  Thanks for the detailed explanation though. Really appreciated.

I got the problem solved using this player and doing as explained on the link
http://slvideoplayer.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=installation%20instructions&referringTitle=Home

Thx all of you guys for your help.

[Roph]

You can't stream WMV through flash. I don't recommend FLV either, it's a dead (and dead-end) format. The way forward is MP4 as a container, H.264 for the video, and AAC for the audio.

I'd recommend the JW flash player over the (spammy) flowplayer. Here's my simple [video] bbcode:

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array(
    'tag' => 'video',
'type' => 'unparsed_content',
    'content' => '<embed src="http://yoursite.com/player.swf" width="575" height="324" flashvars="file=$1&type=video" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="never" />',
),
Just put the above into subs.php with the rest of the bbcode (search for "'tag' => 'white'," to get to the right area). You also need to place the JW player swf somewhere on your server - that's all you need, no fiddling with javascript I use a much simpler, older and smaller version that does just what I want (play video!) without the exra cruft, right click here and save as, then host it on your own site somewhere and add the URL to the swf above in the src="" part if you want to use it

[Yoshi]

I use DVDVideoSoft Video to Flash converter

[akc42]

I used JW player before I used Flowplayer.  However you have to be careful because the free licence does not allow you to use it on any commercial sites.

My site potentially became commercial when we became the official fan club, and I didn't want to take the risk so switched it.

I don't know what you mean by "spammy".  I've never had any spam as a result of downloading or using flowplayer.