How to Add Flash video to Website

On internet, there are more and more people ask questions like "How can I add flash videos to my website?", "How can I embed a flash video(FLV) into my web page?", "How to insert an abobe flash video into frontpage?" Here, I will give a step-by-step user guide to solve these problems.

A quick glance at the present-day internet would seem to indicate that Adobe Flash is the obvious choice for embedding video in a web page.
The easiest way is just to use YouTube or MySpace video and then embed those onto the website. It's faster, easier, and doesn't take up space on our server. Not to mention all of the extra viewership they get from being posted on YouTube and MySpace... it's great because it brings people into your site from those sites.

Before start, it is recommended to convert your video to FLV. Because FLV can be played on most of web browsers and 99% of all Internet users have installed Adobe Flash Player on their web browsers.

Step-by-step User Guide:

Step 1. Download Moyea Web Player, install and launch it

Step 2. Add videos into Moyea Web Player

Step 3. Moyea Web Player publishes some files like a swf file named mwplayer.swf and a html file named index.html

Step 4. Upload all the published files to the same folder with your web pages files on your host server.

Step 5. open index.html with notepad or dreamweaver, edit the embeded code to
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>
<div id="flashcontent">Player will show here</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('mwplayer.swf','player','500','450','9');
so.addParam('wmode','opaque');
so.addParam('quality','high');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.write("flashcontent");
</script>

Step 6. Copy and paste the edited embedded code to your web page. Then the flash video player with videos will appear on your website.

FAQ:
Q: The Web Player works perfect when I preview on my local computer, but doesn't work after I upload to my Web Site.
A: Firstly please make sure the following points:
1. You have uploaded all the generated files except the index.html file, to the same folder of your web server. And all the files could be visited by any visitor through web browser. Note: Please make sure that the file names only include numbers and English letters and no other character.

2. The path of "mwplayer" is correct in embed code. If mwplayer.swf resides in another directory, then point to it with a relative path (e.g. video/mwplayer.swf) or an absolute path (e.g. http://www.yourdomain.com/video/mwplayer.swf ).

3. You have uploaded the Web Player to your registered web site.
If the player still doesn't work well, please kindly send the URL of your player to support@playerdiy.com so that we could directly check.

Q: Is it possible to remove the "Embed" and "URL" code part beside the Web Player window?
A: You could choose "none" to hide the "User define area" in "Template --> Options --> List and component -->User define area" item of the Web Player program

Q: I would like the playlist to be always visible below the play screen.
A: You could choose to check the options "Show list at first", "Show list when playing" and "Show list at last" to show your playlist. Have a look at the example.
Note: The "Show list at first" option will not take effect if "Pause at first frame" option is canceled. These three options can be separately chosen or arbitrarily chosen together.

Stephen Wong, Adobe Flash and web multimedia development expert. He currently works for Moyea Software as an consultant to help people with Adobe Flash and web media problems. He is the leader of Moyea Web Player ( www.playerdiy.com/ ), which is a great tool for online video streaming.

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