Hello folks,

Does anyone know how to add Flowplayer or Longtail Player to VSD? I worked several hours last night with flowplayer but no luck. I'm sure it's something simple I've missed (it usualy is) but I was wondering if anyone has successfully implemented one of these programs into VSD. I'd appreciate any feedback. I do have coffecup web video program but the final video quality is so very poor. My hosting service is 1&1 so no problems with the server. Thanks guys

Have you added the appropriate reference files under the settings menu? The flowplayer references two files I believe.

Three files.

http://flowplayer.org/documentation/ins … index.html

This file to be put in the VSD header of each page that will display video

Step 1: To include file flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js in the web page you place the following tag in the HEAD section of your web page:

<script src="path/to/the/flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js"></script>

Step 2: To place the link to your video file in the web page, the simplest way is to use the following A tag on your web page. The video will automatically play there:

<a
href="http://www.mywebsite.com/myVideo.flv"
style="display:block;width:425px;height:300px;"
id="player">
</a>

Step 3: Finally, to load the player on the A tag just described, you place the following script in your page, following the A tag:

<script language="JavaScript">
flowplayer("player", "path/to/the/flowplayer-3.2.5.swf");
</script>

This seems simple enough, just input my files and path to server. Step one I did "edit - Header".
Steps 2 and 3 I used the html tool in VSD to input

Somewhere I've goofed. Two answer your question I only added step one under the settings menu - edit header

If you ever get Flowplayer to work in VSD I would be very interested in knowing how to do it, please post the answer when it gets figured out.

many thanks

I agree Greg - I need a good player and the flowplayer has a great quality and feel

Dean, you could post an url so that we can see the code. It's easier to help if we can see what's wrong/missing/misplaced etc.

I don't know if this is any help, but when I added a slideshow script to my VSD site, I found I needed to add the image files with the Add File function in VSD. Even though the images were already in the files folder, it didn't work until I added them through the Add Files as well.
Let us know what you come up with

Edit - Have you tried the Flash tool instead of the HTML tool?

yea, try adding all of your files through the add files option.

Well - I went the easy route. You can take a look. http://www.doubletakecreations.com/ I did add the files, added the script to the header but no go so the easy route. I just copied the scripts that flowplayer provides, entered my pictures place card holders and linked to my .flv and easy. I'm happy with the result of the video since the video are the same quality I saved them at. Here at http://flowplayer.org/demos/ - under demos you can click on a stand alone player, http://flowplayer.org/demos/installation/index.htm look at the source code, copy it over to your html editor and plug-in your video information. I chose the multi player for my home page and the single player for other pages. You can change the size of the player to suit your needs Adding the flowplayer html to VSD is nothing more then adding the html via the VSD html tool. Obviously, this is just the simple fix to flowplayer and not the full function commercial flowplayer which is offered but I'll goof around with the free version for a while

Hi deano,
take a look here http://myofficialnewbie.com/tutorials/flowplayer.html
I thought I would give it a go..