Re: video skins

Hi Susan,

I certainly don't want to discourage you from building your own player,
and I can't answer your specific Flash question, but if you need an
already-made Flash video player that you can use almost out-of-the-box,
you might want to check out this site:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player.

This is probably the most popular Flash video player on the web. It's
free and relatively easy-to-customize and deploy. Using your new Flash
skills, you might be able to customize it further than indicated in the
documentation. I know it displays the total length of the video and the
elapsed time. Not sure if it can show how much time is left.

Good luck,

Michael

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Susan Hedgpeth wrote:
> Hi Webnet,
>
> Many thanks to all of you who responded to my message a couple of 
> weeks ago about putting videos on the web.
>
> I've made some progress.  Lucky for me, we have the Adobe suite so 
> I've been learning about Premier and Flash.  I've successfully 
> created a Flash movie and placed it on a web page (I can't show you 
> because it's only on our dev site for now but trust me it works :-) ).
>
> Now I have a question about the video "skins", i.e., the control 
> panel that starts and stops the video etc.   In Flash, you can choose 
> from among a bunch of different skins but as far as I can tell none 
> of them has the feature that tells how long the video is, and how far 
> along the user is while watching it.   If you look at any YouTube 
> video you will see that they have this feature.
>
> I really like that feature and find it very user-friendly and I want 
> to figure out how to include it on our videos.  Anyone know how I can 
> do this?    (Please don't suggest using YouTube because at this point 
> we have decided to make our own.)
>
> Thanks.
> -Susan
>
>
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