INSTALLING

The example flvplayer.html works right out of the box. If you look at it's source code (in a text or HTML editor), you can see that both instances of the flvplayer are inserted in the page with a small javascript. These javascripts use the external ufo.js script by Bobby van der Sluis in order to prevent the annoying "click here to activate" message. If you copy the flvplayer to your website, make sure you don't forget to copy the ufo.js file as well. The ufo.js is inserted in the HTML page right at the top:

<script type="text/javascript" src="ufo.js"></script>

An insertion javascript allows you to set the location of the movie, it's width and height, the version and build of Flash that is needed (just leave this to 7 and 0) and the backgroundcolor of the movie. You can also send a list of so-called Flashvars to the script (for that see the next paragraph):

<p id="player1"><a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">Get the Flash Player</a> to see this player.</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var FO = { movie:"flvplayer.swf",width:"300",height:"20",majorversion:"7",build:"0",bgcolor:"#FFFFFF",
             flashvars:"file=video.flv&showdigits=true&autostart=true" };
UFO.create(FO,"player1");
</script>

When the HTML page loads, the javascript replaces the part of your HTML with the "id" you provided in the javascript (in this case the paragraph with the id "player1"), and you have a Flash player running on your website.

If you cannot use javascript on your website (for example if you run the flvplayer on a profile site like MySpace), you can use an "embed" code instead of the javascript. Your flvplayer.swf will probably be on another server then. That is OK, but note that your playlist.xml should always reside on the same server than your SWF, or else the security restrictions won't allow the flvplayer to load it:

<embed src="http://www.myfileserver.com/folder/flvplayer.swf" width="300" height="200" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" 
flashvars="file=http://www.myfileserver.com/folder/playlist.xml&showdigits=true&autostart=true" /