1 2The players are located in the root flowplayer directory in the distribution package. 3* The player flash components are: FlowPlayer.swf, FlowPlayerWhite.swf, FlowPlayerBlack.swf and FlowPlayerLP.swf 4* Sample HTML files + JavaScript for embedding the players are in the html directory. 5* Extra example files for special cases in the extras folder 6 (example suggestion.js, example external configuration file). 7 8Installation 9============ 10 11To install the player copy html/flashembed.min.js and one of the player SWF files into 12your Web server. Only the SWF and flashembed.min.js is required! For further info please 13see the installation instruction in our Web site http://flowplayer.org 14 15See html/FlowPlayer.html for a simple example! 16 17FlowPlayer Version history (latest release on top) 18================================================= 19 202.1.2 21 - New example.html included, old example files were dropped from the distribution package 22 - New version of flashembed.min.js, it has some bugs fixed 23 Fixes: 24 - Sometimes the buffering animation was left running in the beginning of videos. 25 - Scaling problems fixed. You can use showOnLoadBegin: false in the clips to prevent them from showing before 26 they have been scaled properly. 27 282.1.1 29 Fixes: 30 - Buffering animation was left visible when pausing and resuming using the control-bar's 31 pause/resume button 32 332.1 34 - Hardware Scaled video in full-screen mode 35 - New buffering rotation animation 36 - New option controlBarGloss 37 Fixes: 38 - The control bar hiding is now based on mouse move delay, works much better that way 39 - Calls onFlowPlayerReady() also when you use the configInject option. 40 - Does not show NaN's in the time display when playing MP3 clips with autoPlay: false 41 - The stop button behaves correctly for MP3 clips 42 - Replay button in the suggestions view fixed 43 - Does not produce sound in the beginning of clip when autoPlay: false and autoBuffering: true 44 - Now shows the first frame of video when autoPlay: false and autoBuffering: true 45 - Fixed: was not possible to set the clip's duration just using the 'end' parameter 46 - Does not show the buffering rotation animation at the end of playList 47 482.0.1 49 - Arranges the buttons to the left if the scrubber is not shown (when using showScrubber: false) 50 - Does not show the video link in the Embed popup unless videoLink is specified in config 51 Fixes: 52 - Email sending works now by default, it sends the data to flowplayer.org's email sender 53 - Menu bar is now always correctly opened above the control bar 54 55 562.0 57 - Now uses the "native full screen" by default, no need to specify useNativeFullScreen: true to enable it 58 - Shows the big play button overlay image by default, new config option 'usePlayOverlay' that can be 59 used to disable it. 60 - New button to mute and unmute the sound volume 61 - Possibility to show/hide every button and widget in the control bar 62 - New overlay play button graphic 63 - New rotating buffer animation 64 - Added a new callback onFlowPlayerReady() to the JavaScript API. 65 - New default skin 'air' 66 * New controlsOverVideo config setting 67 * new config setting controlBarBackgroundColor (controlAreaBorderColor setting was removed) 68 - Removed the loop button (unnecessary) 69 - The initial volume level is now 50% 70 - The popup menu automatically hides after 10 seconds if not closed by the user. 71 - Added new "onPlaybackTime" callback to the JavaScript API. Reports the current time 72 in the video timeline. 73 - setting autoPlay: true now starts playing when the 'play' button overlay is used as the first clip 74 in the playList. Setting autoPlay: false will make the player pause on and show the splash. 75 - Embed view shows a direct link to the current video file 76 * added videoLink config option that can be used to override the default 77 that is taken from the playList or the videoFile option 78 - Email-a-link functionality: 79 * added emailPostUrl config option 80 * added emailVideoLink config option 81 * added emailDefaultMessage config option (all occurrences of [video_link] tag in the message 82 are replaced with the value of emailVideoLink) 83 - AdServer functionality: 84 * added following clip specific configuration options: id, keywords 85 * added enableAds, publisherId, adServerUrl, adServerAuth, countryCode config options 86 Fixes: 87 - autoRewind now rewinds to start and stops if loop is false 88 - The initialScale config option works correctly when the controls are hidden using hideControls: true 89 - playList support with RTMP streaming servers was broken 90 911.21.1 92 Fixes: 93 - FlowPlayer prevented page elements from loading properly when the page was refreshed in IE. Now fixed! 94 - setConfig() JavaScript API function is initialized as early as possible to 95 fix some timing issues on IE. 96 - does not load the fullscreen.js from flowplayer.org when using the native full screen mode 97 - volume level was reset back to 100% when scrubbing 98 99 1001.21 101 - MP3 playback (following are not supported yet: Protection codes (a.k.a. anti-leeching)) 102 - Google Analytics support 103 - Extensions to the JavaScript API 104 - Added the possibility to play a clip via JavaScript 105 - Added possibility to set programmatic cue points using JavaScript 106 - Added possibility to play a clip having a RTMP url 107 - Player initializes without specifying any config. After that you can use the JavaScript API 108 to configure it and play clips. 109 - Embed code does not include child configs any more. Only the configuration set by 110 flashVars or injected is included in the embed code configuration. 111 - Possibility to supply the embed code in config 112 - Possibility to load a page for suggestions instead of just playing them in the same 113 player instance. Done with the linkURL and linkWindow clip specific fields. 114 Fixes: 115 - Seeking is more accurate so that it seeks exactly where the scrub bar is released 116 - You can now seek to the beginning or the end of a video using the scrubber 117 - Setting a new config using JavaScript via setConfig() now re-creates the UI so that it properly 118 reflects the new config 119 - baseURL was not used if it was specified in a parent config and the playlist was specified in it's child config. 120 - does not load the fullscreen.js from flowplayer.org when using the native full screen mode 121 - doubleclickin on the "play" overlay at the beginning of a playlist caused the player to pause. Now doubleclicks 122 work the same as single clicks. 123 - Fixes to suggestions: 124 - Does not unnecessarily load the suggestion URL several times. 125 - Suggestions loading did not work when using an external config file. Caused the player to initialize over and over. 126 1271.20 128 - Suggestions a.k.a. related videos 129 - Loading of configuration using RTMP from a streaming server 130 - The native full screen ads were removed and replaced by a flowplayer.org logo 131 - Added a new clip type 'video' that ensures correct playback for h.264 videos supported 132 by the latest Flash player 3 update codenamed "Moviestar" 133 Fixes: 134 - RTMP recorded streams were not played to the end 135 - Fixed the sample HTML files 136 1371.19 138 - Skinning kit 139 - Added all dependencies to the source distribution package 140 Fixes: 141 - videoHeight does not have any effect in full screen mode any more, now resizes to fit the full area 142 - configured progress bar, buffering bar etc. colors were ignored 143 1441.18 145 - Smoothing of FLV videos (antialiasing of scaled video) 146 - Native Flash full screen mode added. 147 - The Long Play version (FlowPlayerLP.swf) now resizes to full screen 148 - Addes mouse over states to buttons. 149 - Added 'overlay' to image clips. Can be used to overlay a play button image on top of another image clip. 150 - Addes a built-in Big Play Button overlay. 151 - Added new clip specific configuration variable 'liveStream' to specify that the clip is a live stream 152 played from a media server. 153 - Changed the background of the video area to be black. Now the player does not show the video (shows the black 154 background instead) before the buffer is filled an the playback starts. 155 - Added new clip specific setting 'showOnLoadBegin'. Turn this to false and the video will not be shown 156 before the buffer has been filled and the playback starts. 157 - All methods of the JavaScript API are now available in LocalConnection API as well. You can now 158 control FlowPlayer from another Flash movie. 159 - By default the loop button is no longer shown. You have to specify showLoopButton: true to make it visible. 160 - New maximum play count for clips in the playlist. Controlled with a clip specific 'maxPlayCount' setting. 161 Fixes: 162 - Progress bar now better seeks to the end of videos. 163 - The embed area is centered horizontally also in full screen mode. 164 - The time display was corrupted with videos longer than 60 minutes. Now uses a smaller font so that 165 the time values fit properly. 166 - JS full screen works with external config file 167 - Setting showFullScreenButton to False Shortens Progress Bar - now fixed 168 - The Long Play version does not redraw the thumbs strip unnecessarily 169 170Older releases in in version number order: 171 1720.9 Initial public release. All basic features are in place. 173 1740.9.1 Added 'autoPlay' variable that can be used to specify whether the 175 playback should begin immediately when the player has been loaded into 176 the Web browser. 177 1780.9.2 Bug fixes. 179 1800.9.3 Added new 'bufferLength' variable that can be used in the HTML page to 181 specify the length of the buffer in seconds when streaming FLV. Fixed a 182 bug that prevented playback after an FLV was completely played. 183 1840.9.4 Added a 'baseURL' variable that can be used to specify the location of 185 the video file to be loaded by Player.swf. See Player.html for an 186 example. 187 188 If the 'videoFile' variable's value contains a '.flv' or '.swf' 189 extension, the standalone player (Player.swf) will NOT append this based 190 on the detected flash version. If a prefix is not present, the player 191 always appends either one of these prefixes. 192 1931.0 194 - Displays a "BUFFERING..." text when filling the video buffer. 195 - Fixed playback of the start and the end of the video where the player 196 was errorneously cutting off some of the video. 197 - Added a new start() function to the FlowPlayer class. 198 - Fixed Sample.fla 199 2001.1 201 - Added ability to loop; Contains a new toggle button to control looping. 202 Default looping state is defined in 'loop' parameter. Thanks Jeff Wagner 203 for contributing the initial looping support. 204 - Now resizes according to the size defined in the HTML page 205 - Fixed some flaws in the graphics 206 - The color of the progress bar is now gray by default (more neutral). The 207 color can be customized by parameters. 208 - Removed support to play videos in SWF format. 209 2101.2 211 - Added a 'autoBuffering' option and welcome image support. 212 - Added a 'hideContols' option to hide all buttons and other widgets and 213 leaving only the video display showing. 214 - Added support for welcome images 215 - Most of the UI is now built dynamically with ActionScript instead of using 216 pre-drawn images. This results in 50% smaller download size. 217 2181.2.b2 219 - Fixed binary build that contained an old buggy FlowPlayer.swf 220 2211.3 222 - Fixed resizing problem that occurred with Internet Explorer: The video was 223 not resized when the page was refreshed. 224 2251.4 226 - Removed the blue the background color of the player. The light blue color 227 became visible when using only the obect-tag to embed the player into a page. 228 By using only the object tag it's possible to author valid XHTML. The sample 229 FlowPlayer.html now shows this kind of markup. 230 2311.5 232 - Support for playlists 233 - Extenal configuration file that enables configuring all the existing 234 settings. All settings defined in this configuration file can be 235 overridden using flashvars in the HTML object tag. 236 - Basic skinning support: Images for all buttons (play, pause, looping 237 toggle, and dragger) can be loaded from external JPG files. Smaller 238 versions of the default buttons are provided as an example. 239 FlowPlayerLiht.swf is meant to be used with skinning: it does not contain 240 any button images in itself and therefore is slightly smaller in download 241 size. 242 - 'hideBorder' option 243 - visual improvement of control buttons 244 - dragging can be now done by clicking anywhere in the progress bar area 245 - clicking on the video area pauses and resumes playback 246 - scaling the splash image is now optional. Alternatively it can be centered 247 into the video area. 248 - removed the border surrounding the video area 249 - plus some more minor changes 250 Bug fixes: 251 - Seeking using the dragger button is more accurate. Now it is possible to 252 seek to the very beginning of a clip. 253 - Stops playing in the launching player when the full screen player is opened. This 254 way the full screen player can begin buffering the video immediately. Previously 255 the launching player was paused and continued buffering and it prevented the full 256 screen player from buffering. 257 2581.6 259 Bug fixes: 260 - Does not buffer unnessessarily if looping through one clip again and again 261 - Playback can be started normally again when the clip is done and looping 262 is off. There was a bug that prevented this. 263 - Clicking on the video area did not start playing if splash not used and 264 when autoPlay=false 265 - The seeker button aligned to the right from the mouse position when it was 266 grabbed using the mouse button. Now it stays on the same position it was in 267 when the mouse button was pressed down. 268 - It was not possible to use characters 'y' and 'Y' in the names inside 269 the playList. Now following characters are available: 270 "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz?!/-:,. 1234567890" 271 2721.7 273 Fixes: 274 - baseURLs are not appended to file name values that are complete URLs 275 - minor visual enhancements 276 New features: 277 - Support for long videos: Initial support for streaming servers (tested with red5) + 278 thumbnails corresponding to cue points. 279 - Video duration and time indicator 280 - Resizing of the video area through a menu 281 2821.7.1 283 - Now the original FLV video dimensions are detected from the FLV metadata. The different resizing options are based on those. Initially the size is maximized according to the 'videoHeight' setting and preserving the aspect ratio. 284 Fixes: 285 - progress bar now goes to the start position (left) even when autoPlay=false and autoBuffering=false [1574640] 286 - resizing menu does not toggle pause/resume anymore [1581085] 287 - fixed missing audio on some FLV files [1568612] 288 - Flash Media Servers seems to send the FLV metadata again and again when seeking. This caused unnessessary rearranging of the thumbnails. 289 - Thumnail list's scrollbar is now hidden if all thumbnails fit the available visible space. 290 2911.8 292 - Initial JavaScript API (Requires FlashPlayer 8 or above): 293 * Possibility to configure the player using JavaScript and a configuration object 294 similar to the external config file (using JavaScript Object Notation, JSON) 295 * Possibility to move the playback to different clips in the playlist using JavaScript 296 - Changed the format how thumbnails are specified in the config object 297 - The numbers from the playlist's clips were removed 298 - Unnamed clips are hidden from the playlist 299 - Possibility to have images in the playlist. Now the splash image is internally handled 300 as being the first clip in the playlist. 301 - Adjacent clips are played as one stream when using a streaming server 302 3031.9 - More complete JavaScript API 304 - Hierarchical configuration 305 - New config variable "initialScale" to control the initial scaling of the video 306 - New resizing option "fill window" that will fill all available space (does not care about preserving the aspect ratios) 307 - Changed the default buffer to 10 seconds 308 - noVideoClip config setting that can be used to specify a video clip or an image to be played when 309 the primary clip is not found 310 Fixes: 311 - Fixed buffering indicator, did not show the buffer lenght correctly when not using a streaming server 312 - It was not possible to pass an empty string in baseURL when using setConfig() in the JavaScript API 313 - loop config setting was broken 314 - Clip is now better recognized as completely played 315 3161.10 317 Changed to use the same configuration syntax with flashVars as with external configuration files. Now 318 the same configuration style is used consistently everywhere. 319 Fixes: 320 - It was impossible to disable autoPlay and autoBuffering 321 3221.10.1 323 - Fix for the message on IE: "Object doesn't support this property or method' Line 48, Char 3". This 324 was caused by two method names in the new JavaScript API. As a result, these methods are now renamed 325 in the JavaScript API. 326 - Inlcuded javascript.txt (documentation for the JavaScript API) in the distribution packages. 327 3281.11 329 - Finally added a volume control slider 330 - Made all progress bar and volume slider colors customizable 331 - Added a possibility to hide the playlist control buttons (next clip and previous clip buttons) 332 - Fixed the sample html files to work in Internet Explorer. The pages now use SWFObject 333 (http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/) to embed the player. 334 3351.11.1 336 - Changed volume slider to change the volume while the slider is being moved. The previous version changed 337 it only after the mouse button was released. 338 Fixes: 339 - Now resets the play/pause button correctly when the clip ends and looping is not used 340 - Looping does not go to the splash after the last clip in the playlist is finished. Instead the playback loops 341 to the first clip after the splash. This is valid also when only one video is configured to be played using 342 the 'videoFile' config option. 343 3441.12 345 - Protection scheme to prevent inline linking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking) 346 of video and image files. 347 - Images in playlist are resized according to the menu options. Images also respect the 'initialScale' 348 config option. 349 Fixes: 350 - If loop is off the player stops on the last frame of the clip 351 3521.13 353 - New config options to hide the loop button and the size options menu. 354 - Possibility to disable transport control buttons using a clip specific option. 355 - Possibility to have hyperlinks for clips. Will open the linked URL into the browser when the clip is clicked. 356 - Possibility to disable pause/resume behavior associated to clicking the video area. This is done 357 by specifying an empty hyperlink URL to a click. 358 - New animation that plays on the progress bar area when the video is buffering 359 - The setConfig() method in the JavaScript API can be used over and over again to replace the configuration 360 3611.14 362 - Two new skins included (black & white) 363 - Initial support for lighttpd 364 - Ability to include Flash movies (swf files) in playlist 365 - Added a type property to playlist clips so that the URLs don't need to have an extension (swf, flv or jpg) 366 any more. 367 Fixes: 368 - playlist control buttons (next & prev) did not fade out when disabling them for a clip 369 3701.14.1 371 - dragger (scrubber) now causes immediate seeking when it is moved 372 Fixes: 373 - JavaScript API's setConfig() did not work correctly 374 - allows seeking to unbuffered areas when streaming with lighttpd 375 - removed unnecessary error logging 376 - volume slider goes all the way to the right edge 377 - fixed regressions in LP version: Thumbnail scrollbar was not shown, 378 duration labels did not have the grey background 379 3801.15 381 - Added several event callbacks to the JavaScript API. See javascript.txt for details. 382 - Added a new "thermometer" skin, ends up in FlowPlayerThermo.swf (does not include the playlist 383 control and loop buttons yet) 384 - Andrew Rice: Faster seeking with lighttpd by using a binary search to find the keyframes. 385 A fix to the Seek() method in the JavaScript API now works correctly with lighttpd. 386 3871.16 388 - Added full screen support. Opens a new browser window that occupies all screen estate. 389 - Added a new view that shows the HTML code for embedding the video in blogs etc. 390 - Changed the looks of the menu. The menu is now shown when the user hovers over the area 391 where it is displayed. 392 - Added more event callbacks to the JavaScript API. See javascript.txt for details. 393 - Changed the splash image to use the 'baseURL' variable that is used with all other types of clips. 394 'skinImagesBaseURL' is only used for external skin images 395 - Removed the playlist view (the list that showed the playlist contents under the control buttons) 396 Fixes: 397 - Volume slider sometimes was errorneusly placed on top of the video area 398 - a SWF in a playlist is not loaded on top of the control button area (new the control area 399 border stays on top of it). 400 - initialScale parameter did not work when the controls were hidden 401 - pause/resume by clicking the video (or the linkUrl behavior) did not work in the upper left 402 corner of the video area 403 - The player now dynamically resizes itself if the size is changed in the embedding HTML. This 404 is utilized by the fullscreen feature. 405 4061.16.1 407 Fixes a bug in the new full screen feature, it was not able to dynamically add the required 408 JavaScript to the opening page's DOM on Internet Explorer. 409 4101.16.2 411 Fixed the embedding feature so that the displayed code works in MySpace. 412 4131.17 414 - Added a button to open the full screen page. 415 - Removed the menu auto-popup. 416 - Added a 'autoRewind' option that is used to rewind to the first clip in the playlist. The old 417 'loop' option keeps the playback looping without returning back to the first splash image 418 (if there is a splash). 419 - Added ability to include png files in playlists. Especially useful for creating transparent splash images 420 that have a big play button image. 421 - Added a per clip parameter 'allowResize' that can be used to override the scaling setting. 422 - Changed the font used in FlowPlayer to be non italics 423 - Added possibility to fix the control buttons area width. Now the controls do not fill the whole 424 width in the full screen mode. 425 Fixes: 426 - Embed provided hardcoded width and height values. Now it takes those from the parent player. 427 4281.17.1 429 Fixes: 430 - Fixed user interface problems introduced in 1.17 431 (see: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1733937&forum_id=453550) 432 433 434 435How to use it 436============= 437 438Please see http://flowplayer.org/documentation 439 440Support, comments, bug reports and feedback: 441-------------------------------------------- 442Please post support requests and feedback to the forums at http://flowplayer.org 443You can also contact the author directly: api@iki.fi 444