Flash Player and Web Video Player

Flash Player and Web Video Player

Both flash player and web video player are now playing an important role on the Internet. As some people still feel vague about these two dinguses, I would like to talk a little bit more about them.

Explanation:
Flash Player is a cross-platform browser plug-in to be installed to your web browser to display flashes, or an application for playing flashes either on the web or your computer.

Web Video Player is a web embedded player for playing videos on the web, or an application for creating web videos with an embedded player which allows users to put videos to the web more easily.

Example:
One of the most famous and popular flash players is Adobe Flash Player. Below are key features of the latest version of Adobe Flash Player Version 10.

Top new features

-- 3D effects
-- Custom filters and effects
-- Advanced text support
-- Dynamic sound generation
-- Vector data type
-- Dynamic Streaming
-- Speex audio codec
-- Color correction
-- Drawing API - Enhanced
-- File upload and download APIs - Enhanced

As said on its official site that users may experience the unprecedented creative control with new expressive features and visual performance improvements in Adobe Flash Player 10.


One of the popular web video player tools is Socusoft Web Video Player. The principle of this application is to integrate your video with a player together with relevant output codes to be embedded into HTML of your webpage. The streaming videos on your site can be played directly and instantly due to an embedded player.

Key features summary:

-- GUI is easy to navigate
-- No time or other key limits
-- Support most video formats
-- Single/batch video input and conversion
-- Quick editing of video file properties
-- Cool themes for web videos
-- Rich parameter settings for web videos
-- Show/Hide of video play list and playback feature
-- Extremely easy to publish web videos and embedded player
-- Convenient to get ready-made files for Dreamweaver or FrontPage

Flash Player and Web Video Player have become necessary parts among multimedia, web design and Internet tools. They both will bring a lot more benefits to people.

Supplementary Tutorial - About two codes for displaying web videos on the webpage

Code Analysis

(Supplementary guide of the last step: Upload Files – Publish web video to your website or blog)

http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Note: As there are html codes which are not allowed by this blog entry, please visit http://docs.google.com/ViewDoc?docid=dc8ktnq3_0g4z9vhcp to view the doc file about the complete entry.

Official source of Socusoft Web Video Player:

http://www.web-video-player.com

After publishing the web videos and uploading all of the files in the "output" folder of your computer into the folder which is created for uploaded files on the hosting space of the website following the tutorial on the blog: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com , you may now put the codes to any other web pages or forums to show your web videos. There are two codes as follows:

First method:

You may know that there is an "html file" among the files in the "output" folder of your computer after publishing. For example: When I finish publishing the web video, I may get the html file named "Mr.Beans.Holiday_Funny.sing_n_dance.html". If the domain name of my website is "www.any-flv-converter.com" I created a new folder on the hosting space of this website named: "webvideo". Thus, the link of my web video page should be:

http://www.any-flv-converter.com/webvideo/Mr.Beans.Holiday_Funny.sing_n_dance.html

Right now, I want to put my published video to another web page or blog. There are two types of codes:

Simple one:

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Right now, I put the link of my web video page to the code above. It turns to be:

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P.S. You may change the size of Width and height according to the size of the web player template so as to display it fully.

Right here, I use the website tool FrontPage 2003 as an example. I create a new page with FrontPage 2003, and the code of the new page will be like this:

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new page 1

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< /body >

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Right now, I put the code of my published video to <> < /body > of the new page as shown below:


new page 1

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< /body >


If you follow it, you may now save the web page and preview it. You may also use my code to preview the web video.


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Second One:

I use Notepad to open the above-mentioned html file. You may find the code between "". As I use the template "advertisement" to publish the video, its generated code is like this:

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The above is the Relative Path of the files.
NOTE: If you just use the original published html file to view the web page, it is not necessary to change the code above. But, if you also want to put your published video to another web page or blog, you should change the code like this:

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The above is the Absolute Path of the files.

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Right now, I put the code to <> < /body > of the new page as shown below, which is the same as the procedure of the first simple way mentioned above.


new page 1

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< /body >
span>

New strategy to advertise or promote your products or websites

New strategy to advertise or promote your products or websites

-- To add company logo or product images to web videos like YouTube

Product advertising is one of the most important strategies in product promotion. In this article, I will share with you a typical advertising approach, that is, to add company logo or product images to web videos like YouTube.

What you need to prepare are these: product videos or popular movies, company logo, product images and a powerful tool - Socusoft Web Video Player. This application has advertising function. After you register the program, the advertising function is activated. It allows you to integrate your videos and images together. You can also add links to videos. Different from videos on YouTube, The web video generated by this program has an embedded player, which can be fully customized.

Download Socusoft Web Video Player from http://www.web-video-player.com

When installation is completed, launch Socusoft Web Video Player.

1) Prepare advertisement image

The format of the ad image can be jpeg, gif, jpg, png and swf. If you want to add an advertisement image with no target link on it, the format of the image can be jpeg, gif, jpg and png. If you want to add a target link to a web page for the advertisement image, the format must be swf. You may use Flash Slideshow Maker, Macromedia Flash, SnagIt or other tools to add URL easily to the image and save it as swf format.




2) Choose advertising templates

Go to "Themes" and choose the template of web player for your video clips such as the template "Advertisement".



3) Add image to player

Now go to the advanced mode. Click button "Customize Parameters" at the bottom right corner. Then, Click the blank field of Advertisement and get the advertising image.




Sample:



4) Add link to video

If you need to add target links to videos, go back to "(1) Video" and choose videos that you need to add target URL to. Then, click the button "Edit". There will be a pop-up dialogue. Go to "Target URL" and input the link such as company website. Please remember to add "http://" first.




PS: Publish Video and Player on Your Computer

When finished the above steps, go to the sixth step "Publish". Click the button "Publish Now" to integrate your video with player. Your video has right now been embedded a cool player. You may click "View Web Page" to preview your web video.



Upload Files – Publish Video to Your Website or Blog

1) Publish video to your website

Click "Open Output Folder" and use upload tools such as CuteFTP to upload all of the files in the folder of "output" to your web space. You may create a new folder on your web space first such as "video" for the output files. If the created folder is in the root directory, the URL of your web video should be: http://www.*****.com/video/***(name of the published html file).html


2) Add web video to your blog or forum and more

You may also add your published web videos to your blog or forum and more. Here is an example of adding videos to google blog.

Click "Open Output Folder". Then, open the html file with FrontPage, Dreamweaver or Notepad. The html file is the same with the one uploaded.



Right here, I use Notepad to open the above-mentioned html file and switch to the code mode and change the paths like the following screenshot. Please note that you need to input your website URL instead of " *****.com" as shown below.



After that, copy the code between "object" as above. Go to your google blog and paste the code as shown below. After that, publish the post. You may now view your web video on google blog.



Sample: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Some blogs may not support HTML well. If so, you may also use the following code, which is simple. That is, "iframe" plus "the path".



For more information, please visit: http://funny-video-youtube.blogspot.com

Easy Way to Put Videos on Web Pages, Blogs, Forums, eBayAuctions, MySpace and More

Easy Way to Put Videos on Web Pages, Blogs, Forums, eBay Auctions, MySpace and More

Web videos are becoming more and more popular. One of the notable features is that web videos can be played directly on the web. Businessmen may want to add web videos to their sites for a better view of their companies and products. Web designers may need to add web videos to their sites to enrich multimedia content. Video fans may also want to create amazing web videos easily and share them with their families and friends directly. Some other people may even want to promote their products or websites by adding advertisements or links to web videos. Socusoft Web Video Player provides a perfect solution to the above mentioned.

Socusoft Web Video Player is an easy-to-use yet powerful application for creating web videos with an embedded player which can be placed directly into the webpage. It enables you to share your video clips with your family and friends more easily, you may just send them a link of the video page. The streaming videos on your site can be played directly and instantly due to an embedded player.

Download the program:
http://www.web-video-player.com

Below are some notable features of this program:

-- Easy to use
-- No flash knowledge or skills required
-- Single/batch FLV video(s) input
-- Single/multiple video conversion of various formats into FLV or other formats
-- Add any video to your site
-- Quick editing of video file properties such as adding target URL of ads
-- Cool themes for web videos
-- Rich parameter settings for web videos
-- Show/Hide of video play list and playback feature
-- Extremely easy to publish web videos and embedded player
-- Convenient to get ready-made files for Dreamweaver or FrontPage

Detail of the features:
http://www.web-video-player.com/webvieoplayer.php

Simple Steps to Publish Videos on Web Pages, Blogs, Forums, eBay Auctions, MySpace and More

1. Add Video
Go to the first step "Video" and click the button "Add" to add flash video (flv) files.



2. Choose Themes
Turn to the second step "Themes" and choose player themes for your video.




3. Publish
Now you can publish web videos and the embedded player for your website or blog at the last step "Publish".




As the way to embed videos into web pages or put videos on blogs, forums, eBay Auctions, MySpace and more, we will take one as an example.

Example:
How to embed your web video into the webpage?

When you have finished publishing your web video, click the button "Open Output Folder", as shown below:




In the folder, there is a file named "fs_aux.html". You may right click the file and choose open it with "Text" program. You may also go to Start Menu>Programs>Accessories> "Text" program and open it. Then, drag the file "fs_aux.html" to the "Text" program. You may see the code like this:



Copy the code highlighted above from "object" to "/object" into into your webpage. Note:
1. If you use Dreamweaver or FrontPage, you need to switch the mode from design view to code view.
2. You also need to copy all the files and sub-folders in the output folder to the same folder of your own html file. If you put these files in another folder, please change the code "sample.swf?xml_path=music video.xml" by adding correct path before the SWF and XML file.