AN OVERVIEW OF ALL EXTRAS

Because a working example is often way more useful than an elaborate explanation, I've grouped a couple of example pages, files and scripts here that may help you to understand certain much-asked-for functionalities of the Flash players:

SETUP WIZARD

Using the setup wizard, you can quickly customize the Flash players. Just pick an example, and tweak all optional flashvars.

ADVANCED FUNCTIONALITIES

• All javascript functionality of the players.
• The callback for statistics in action.
• The three types of FLV delivery (FLV,HTTP,RTMP).
• Accessibility in action: captions, largecontrols and audiotrack.
• Advertisement possibilities: prerolls, overlays and postrolls.
• Detecting bandwidth and serving the appropriate stream.

PLAYLIST AND CAPTIONING EXAMPLE XML'S

Here are also some examples of the XML files the players accept, both playlists and captions:

• A RSS playlist.
• A XSPF playlist.
• A TimedText captions file.
• A SRT captions file.

Naomi Spirit has written two output scripts for Subtitle Workshop for W3C's TT format. The first one just sets the "duration" element to ten seconds. The second one can be fed through an ASP script for inserting the correct duration data. Thanks Naomi!

HANDY PHP SCRIPTS

An here's a couple of example PHP scripts that might come in handy:

• Playlist auto-generation from MySQL.
• Playlist auto-generation from a certain directory.
• Tunneling of an external RSS feed (avoiding the crossdomain restriction).
• Force-downloading mediafiles (useful for the dlbutton and the small 'link' buttons in the playlist).

README

Finally, this collection of extras also includes the readme file for the Flash players and Image Rotator. It's the most comprehensive source of information and it is regularly updated.