FLV Player on website

[lemarsh]

Hi

I am trying to put some short (5 mins) video clips onto a web page, which streams. However, I am having trouble trying to work out what I need to do.

I have adobe premier 2, which can save in .flv format, which I understand can play in most browsers. I am looking to do this sort of thing:

http://www.jcdv.com/

http://www.dvdphotographs.com/demo.htm

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I have spent the last 24 hours looking for something to do this, but don;t really know where to start (have tried emailing a few people, but no reply).

Thanks in desperation

Mmmmm. Flash video rocks, but I always thought you need flash to be able to make it.

I have it at the bottom of the page here: http://www.damienoneill.com/id/keyboards.htm

Have you saved the video file to flash already?

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*You need the file to be a .swf file that then streams the .flv file.

[lemarsh]

If you are asking do I have a flv file - then yes. Pretty Large (20meg) - hence the wish to stream.

Is that what you mean?

Yeah, But you need flash, a .swf file to do the streaming.

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Give me the URL of your .flv file?

[lemarsh]

According to Adobe Premier Pro, I am saving as Flash 8 using codec On2 VP6 or a Sorenson Spark codec, which saves as a Macromedia Flash Video (.flv).

How mush does flash cost. Just spent £600 on premier pro - don;t fancy another bog bill.

Yeah Sorenson is fine. Flash is expensive but you should not need to use the whole program.

Do you have the URL of the .flv file?

[lemarsh]

just uploaded it...

www.harehill.co.uk/montage.flv

Ta - Lee

Ok, Hope this will work.

These are the files, the video.swf file is the one you embed in the page. All these files must be kept in the same folder as your montage.flv

your .fla file is here: www.damienoneill.com/video.fla.

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Here is it working

(it will be smaller and not skip once you embed it, the browser is making it bigger)

http://www.damienoneill.com/video.swf

[lemarsh]

OK - how did you do that? Do I need to convert to a swf file (and what software do I need)?

Do I need to put the 2 files into a directory that also contains the web page & file flv file?

So many questions for a Sunday!!

You do need flash or dreamweaver (more about dreamweaver below). The .swf is made in flash but it simply streams the .flv video, it doesnt contain it. So you dont convert it to .swf. You need both files

You import the video into flash, you then export the flash movie. That is the file you embed into the page. The other files, have to be in the same folder apart from the video in are streaming (in this case montage.flv). That can be relative, although I had to do it this way for now.

The web page, i think doesnt have to be on the same folder:

So:

In same folder:

steelexternalall.swf (the controls)
video.swf (the file you embed into the webpage, streams the video)
video.flv

The rest can be where you want, flash will ask you where the actual video your streaming is and work that out itself.

Another, and much easiyer way, is to embed it using dreamweaver! This is much easier but you cannot customise as much. Again Dreamweaver

Out of intrest did you get this working?