Thanks for the good video Bruzer - It seems the problem I have with flowplayer is step one: installing the following script into the header. I followed your video but the following script did not show. Flowplayer folder is located in the root of my website as are the two .swf files.

Step 1. add script to header: <script src="path/to/the/flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js"></script>

I'd like to get this to work because on the single commercial flowplayer license - you can brand your video's with your own logo. (that would be cool)

That being said I find with the source code they provide on the demos pages is easy to use and easy to manipulate.

DeanO if you have the folder uploaded then the link in the header would be:

<script src="flowplayer/example//flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js"></script>

http://myofficialnewbie.com/VSD/

the code that you add using the html tool looks something like this:

Bruzer, I finally got it! In my html header I used an absolute path, this is it:

<!--COFFEECUP Flowplayer CODE BEGIN-->
<script src="http://www.sweetassumptions.com/DoubleTakeCreations/Flow%20Player/flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js"</script>
<!--COFFEECUP Flowplayer CODE END-->

In step three I also used an absolute path for the 3.2.5.swf file, this is it:

<script language="JavaScript">
flowplayer("player", "http://www.sweetassumptions.com/DoubleTakeCreations/Flow%20Player/flowplayer/flowplayer-3.2.5.swf");
</script>

I added this script for the nested image:

<style="background-image">
<img src="http://www.sweetassumptions.com/DoubleTakeCreations/video/dtc_files/dual.jpg"height="300" width="425" alt="Album Transfer" />

My example is video number 2 here:

flowplayer gives this warning when you view their demo source codes:

<!-- flowplayer scripts should be loaded from your servers NOT from static.flowplayer.org -->


I appreciate your video - I don't know if this is the same code for every VSD or if it differs from individual programs.
http://www.doubletakecreations.com/Video.html

So I guess now I want to work with skinning the player!

Hiya DeanO,

Just a note that you may end up with issues at some point when you have spaces in your file names on your server. It's always best to never use spaces in the names of any files or pages of your websites and instead use underscores _ or dashes - to separate words. Same with capital letters, although it's not quite as detrimental as the spaces are. Other than that, glad you got it working, Bruzer is always a great help here

Thanks Jo Ann - I'm shooting from the hip so any and all advice is most welcome

Deano,
I think it would be the same whether placing in a html page or VSD just a matter of the "paths" in which they are located.
Thanks JoAnn!

Hey Bruzer,

Have you got the JWplayer to work in VSD? I don't know if one is better then the other. After all is said and done it seems that flowplayer is fairly simple compared to JWplayer - but that's most likely just me

Hi Deano,
Yep I got the JWplayer to work as far as the example went, I am still going thru it, and it is big pain in the arse compared to flowplayer and also looks to be basically the same as far as the video quality.
Another program I like to use is http://www.web-video-player.com/ it has great skins and great quality as well for those long videos. But I have to admit for short avi's and movies web video player is what I like.

Hey Bruzer, I had some issues with flowplayer displaying in IE8 so I had to make some tweaks. One of the tweaks was the spaces and underscores as mentioned by Jo Ann. The other was ie8 did not like having the script in the html [<script src="http://www.sweetassumptions.com/DoubleTakeCreations/flowplayer/flowplayer/example/flowplayer-3.2.4.min.js"</script>] Thanks for the web-video-player.com link - I'll check it out right now. I couldn't get Jwplayer to work. I tried different combinations for several hours and just quit.

Glad you figured it out Deano, IE 8 I haven't installed yet, I'm using IE7 XP SP3 so wasn't able to check that. Do you want help getting the example to work in VSD (JWplayer) ? personally I'd leave it be. lol
Have you ever worked with Macromedia 8?