It’s Called Web Design

You may have checked out THIS FIX to getting an FLV on your site, but now you want to pull data from an XML file.  Why would you want to do this?  Perhaps you want to add pre- or post-roll commercials with your video.  Maybe you want more than one video to play.

Remember to get the flvplayer.swf first.

Here’s the embed code -

<embed src="http://yourdomain.com/flvplayer.swf" width="480" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="height=360&width=480&file=http://yourdomain.com/yourplaylist.xml&displaywidth=480&autostart=false&shuffle=false&playlist=false&scroll=true" />

Once again, you can modify any of the variables (height, width, autostart).  I have the display set so that it will hide the playlist.

Now for the xml playlist, you need to have your XML file and your FLV’s in the same folder.  The XML needs to be formatted like this -

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<playlist version='1' xmlns='http://xspf.org/ns/0/'>
<trackList>
<track>
<location>http://yourdomain.com/folder/video1.flv</location>
</track>
<track>
<location>http://yourdomain.com/folder/video2.flv</location>
</track>
<track>
<location>http://yourdomain.com/folder/video3.flv</location>
</track>
</trackList>
</playlist>

You can have as many or as few “tracks” as you’d like.  Just modify the XML to reflect that.

Tags: commerical, Flash, flv, player, playlist, swf, video, xml

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