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I have video that I've converted to FLV format. I'd rather host it on my own site than use a service like YouTube. What is the easiest player to use? I'd like to just put the .swf file of the player somewhere on my server, and give it the video as a parameter.

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http://flv-player.net/

  • Options from minimalist to feature rich.
  • Simple but very effective HTML generator lets you play with their code for the demo
  • .swf as small as 5KB
  • Creative Commons BY SA and MPL 1.1 licences
Liam
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Take a look at OSflv.

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William Keller
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JW FLV Player : http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Media_Player

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  • This was helpful, but it has a very restrictive license (can't use it on any site that has even AdSense ads). I liked OSflv better. – Kip Sep 19 '08 at 14:39
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I haven't tried yet Flowplayer which seems well documented

it is featured on arctic startup and only restriction to use it with opensource licence is to have their logo displayed

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  • changed this one to accepted answer as I've had problems with OS FLV and it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. Of course, I only use it now as a backup in case HTML5 video is unavailable. (Which is to say, for IE 6-8 users.) – Kip Nov 27 '11 at 03:15
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This could be the obvious answer but the FLVPlayBack component is really nice if you have a single video you need to throw on a website in hurry. Drag it on the stage - select a control panel - double click controls to edit with the Flash drawing tools - post to the website.You might have to use a FlashVar to get the url into the url but that's fairly trivial...

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/fl/video/FLVPlayback.html

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I prefer the new open source player directly from Adobe: Strobe Media Playback. It's totally free and open source, BSD license. Has plugins for commercialization and CDN. has youtube plugin. You can easily create new themes.

However - documentation at this point is not very good.

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I'm personally a big fan of JW, though I've heard Floplayer is good too. JW has an enormous number of features and has a very clean interface. It takes less than a minute to set up a video online; I host all my videos myself, mostly video game clips and x264 demos. (Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5)

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I use JW FLV Player and it's very good. It also supports FLV streaming so if you use mod_flv with Lighttpd for example you can make you own little youtube. There's also a mod_flv for apache and you also can use a php(or any language of your choice) script to enable streaming.

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Any FLV Player, compact easy to use

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I have tried many FLV players and i came across Applian FLV Player. this one has got to be my best. it is light weight, its free comes with an optional audio recorder and no spyware or such. check it out here

With this however you will not be able to embed it into your regular web page.

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  • Sorry, my original title wasn't clear. I'm not looking for a player to watch videos on my PC, but a SWF file I can put on my website. I've updated the title to be more clear. – Kip Sep 19 '08 at 13:25