Adding Flash Videos (FLV) To Your Blog
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8th March , 2008[See post to watch Flash video]
FLV Embed is a super WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV’s) into your blog by using Jeroen’s FLV Player. For information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has written an excellent article which you can find on his website.
The FLV Embed’s main features are its ease of installation and a no bells and whistles approach to getting this plugin to display FLV files instantly on your blog!
Plugin Features
- uses simple, intuitive tags to generate Flash video (FLV) movies for your posts
- supports video sitemap generation
- standards compliant: valid XHTML
- many options are configurable, such as autostart, show/hide control bar, player colour, poster image, full screen button etc.
- highly interactive admin option panel for player configuration
- supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content
- supports outputting poster image for RSS if desired
- accessibility: requires Javascript to display FLV player, but will prompt user to enable Javascript when disabled
- accessibility: prompt user to download latest Flash player if it is not installed or too old
- accessibility: no annoying “click to activate” for IE users
Installation
- Download the plugin from FLV Embed
- Extract to the “flv-embed” folder
- Upload the “flv-embed” folder to your WordPress plugin directory, usually “wp-content/plugins”
- Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
Usage
The great thing about this plugin is it uses one universal, standard tag style, which is;
[ flv:url width height] (remove space before flv when using it yourself!)
- url - the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site relative or absolute
- width - width of the FLV movie
- height - height of the FLV movie
Jeroen’s FLV Player also supports the use of poster frames or clip preview frames so that you can use a single still image from anywhere in the FLV video and have it display automatically once the flash player is loaded. (For an example of this see the video at the start of this post.)
A great time-saver when using this plugin is that if you upload an FLV and JPG image and they both have the same name, e.g. demo.flv and demo.jpg, it means you can still use the short bit of code above and it will automatically display the JPG as the preview picture for the video clip. Very Nice!
Download
You can download the FLV Embed plugin 1.0 for WordPress and try it out for yourself here.