Flowplayer – Free Video Player for the Web
With broadband internet access becoming the new standard, many companies and websites have decided to take advantage of that speed and start streaming videos. Maybe you want to be the next YouTube, maybe you want to show off your son’s band recital, or maybe you want to show off your big biceps (You don’t have any, and you can’t photoshop a video, sorry), then Flowplayer can help.
Flowplayer is a flash media player then can be embedded into any html webpage. It supports FLV and H.264 MP4 to display the video. Have a .AVI or .MPEG or some other unsupported media time? Never fear, a page detailing how to convert it to the right format is here!
Flowplayer users progressive downloads (this is how YouTube does it), provides thumbnails for videos, protects against hotlinking, and multiple size viewings for your video. Want to change the design and layout? Flowplayer has customizable skinning options that can be changed easily. Full list of features can be found here.
Flowplayer is an easily customizable, easily skinnable, feature rich media player while maintaining a very lightweight size. You’ll be sure to impress your clients with this web application, and maybe even yourself.
