I’ve updated the FLVPlayer with a poster frame variable, as well as some other minor updates. This has become a programming exercise more than anything else, and I may not continue with any further development on this project.
Unless you need or want to keep all videos on your own domain, I would recommend using available platforms such as YouTube or Vimeo in order to take advantage of the additional exposure your videos will receive on these sites. Another option is Brightcove.
In any case, here are the release notes for the FLVPlayer. Any further changes will be documented here.
Release Notes
Version 1.2 April, 6, 2011
- Fixed a scaling issue with the poster frame—it would stretch if the SWF was larger than 320 x 262.
Version 1.1.1 March, 28, 2011
- Modified the right-click menu.
Version 1.1 July, 19, 2010
- Added poster frame functionality.
- Added a close button to error messages.
- Changed some comments in the source code.
- Changed some previously unspecified methods to private.
- Modified the right-click menu.
Version 1.0.1 August 7, 2009
- Fixed an issue with thecaptiondisplay, autostart, and showerrors variables.
- Changed the volumelevel variable to accept whole values of 0–100, and account for negative values, and values over 100.
- Added an adjustment to correct a UI display issue with some versions of Firefox.
Version 1.0 August 4, 2009
- First release version.
Pre-release January, 2009
I started development by revisiting an earlier video project from 2007. The objective was to build in closed-captioning capabilities and further explore Flash video. The earlier project used the NetStream class. I changed the player to use the FLVPlayback component in order to take advantage of the built-in captioning and playback methods.