Flowplayer: Open Source Flash Video Player For Your Website

Flowplayer Free Flash Video Player

Adding Flash Video to a website without using a service like Vimeo or YouTube can be challenging if you are not a Flash Action Script expert. Maybe you have a intranet or paid content site and you need to host the video files on your own server and want to display the files in a custom player that matches the look of your site.

Enter the Flowplayer, a free (GPL License) highly customizable Flash Video player jam packed with all the features you might need for you progressive or streaming video website.

Features:

  • Works with progressive or streaming
  • Basic colors can be altered and fully skinnable
  • Playlist support
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Embed links
  • Tons of features that can be configured using simple JavaScript
  • Active development with full documentation and user community

Here is a demo using the default dark skin playing a clip I encoded (downloaded from OpenFootage.net)

View the demo

If you plan to use the Flowplayer for a commercial site, licenses are available starting at $75. The primary difference between the free and licensed versions is that in the free version you have to provide a link to the Flowplayer site and the Flowplayer logo is displayed over the video in fullscreen mode.

I did have trouble getting the Flowplayer to work with Wordpress on IE7. Also, I really wish they would drop the huge watermark on fullscreen mode in the free version.

At this time I still recommend the JW FLV Media player if you are using Wordpress or other CMS or since they offer lots of plug-ins to make it simple to embed videos in blog posts and do not show any watermarks in the free version.

Rating: ★★★½☆

Learn more & download @ http://flowplayer.org/

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