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Web Video – Flowplayer in WordpressThis video player might not be new to the internet, but it is new to this website and to me! So far I am very happy with it. I am going to try experimenting with a plugin for Wordpress called Flowplayer. Flowplayer is a bit of code that allows you to embed Flash and MP4 video files into your Wordpress blog. You can also use this code and player with any webpage. It can be found for free (I am using open source free code) or purchased as a commercial license by clicking here. Below is an example of a short piece of video shot with the Canon 5Dmk2 camera. It is an extended take of the very first scene with Adam Gotsens in the short film, “Burial Site”. This video is ungraded and the audio is from the 5Dmk2 built in microphone. I edited the .mov h.264 file directly on my timeline with no transcoding. I am using a super fast eight core mac pro tower. I encoded the video using Apple Quicktime Conversion to h.264 720p and then used Visual Hub to convert it back to h.264 mp4 in a much smaller file size for the web.
If you want to add this to your wordpress page, you can download everything you need by clicking here. I am planning to buy the licensed version so that I can customize the controls and get rid of the “Flowplayer” watermark. Let me know if you have any trouble viewing this file. Try clicking the little box on the lower right to go FULL SCREEN! Looks really good in HD eh? The video is 30.42 MB though, so I will have to try to knock that down for my longer films without compromising quality somehow. Is this better than me using large .mov files on this website to showcase my films and videos? 11 comments to Web Video – Flowplayer in Wordpress |
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video plays really nicely. looks like flow player is a great tool. thanks tom.
cool. thanks jason! but i am having trouble with the full screen feature. the image is not holding its proper ratio. on my windows computer using 4:3 monitors it is stretched vertically. i am going to bed and will fix this later, but if anyone finds other problems let me know.
To make this work in Wordpress, all you do is download the plugin, upload it to your plugin folder on your WP server, activate the plugin and use the embed code [FLOWPLAYER=filename.mp4,600,350]
You just add that to the body of the post where you want the video. of course, you change the “filename” to what your vid name is!
I am told that the pro version, that costs $95 lets you customize the player quite a bit. It also allows people to share and embed the video with a click of a button to their own blogs and webpages. You can also add your very one watermark to the video and I think even allow people to download it in an easy step. I will find out more soon!
I will buy this is if works well across the internet on many computers and browsers. I love the fact that you can watch my videos full screen on my web site!
Let me know how this played for you on your computer by commenting below.
Thank you!
Tom
Check out proplayer (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/proplayer/). It’s a free plugin for wordpress that supports every video site + several video formats including 3g2, 3gp, aac, f4b, f4p, f4v, flv, m4a, m4v, mov, mp4, sdp, and vp6. Additionally, it uses the highly customizable JW player as one of the possible front-ends in addition to several other possible addons. Give it a chance before you drop $95 on flowplayer.
thanks oman, i will try out proplayer. thanks for the help! right now, flowplayer only accepts .flv and .mp4 video files.
Hi,
You seem to be using the commercial version without a license key and that’s why the flowplayer logo is so annoying. Consider using the Free version! You can use the Free version for as long as you like – no need to buy a license unless you want to get rid of the much more discreet logo it has.
Anyway, great to see you experimenting with Flowplayer!
Cheers,
Anssi
flowplayer.org
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ok i will look into it. any idea why the picture stretches when you view it full screen? it is not holding its proper ratio.
The quality is great and the video plays back nice. But i think the fullscreenmode is buggy. I’ve got a 16:10 screen here, but the video plays back in full screen. And i mean full screen, no letterboxing. So the video got stretched… i think this is a problem we need to solve =)
yea. i gotta figure that out. working on it. it could be just a setting in the config.
Looks great! I’m using the free version of Flowplayer on a web site project I’m still developing. The quality is pretty darned good. My dual G5 1.8 w/ 2.5 gig of ram chokes on your video though though. Could be because I have a crappy video card, FX 5200 w/ 64mb. It’s becoming painfully apparent that it’s time for a new Quad Core on my desktop!
Love your instructional videos! Keep up the good work
Hi! If you ever figure out how to get rid of the flowplayer logo, please post.
The free player has the discreet logo, but the wp-plugin has it stuck in there no matter what, and I’m using a paid version. Thanks.