What is a Flow Player?

What is Flow Player?

Flow Player is an open source video player used in the web world to display audio and video files in the websites from the server. One need not use an external video service like youtube to display videos. Flow Player does the job of embedding videos in the website effectively.

Download Flow Player:

Download Flow Player live stream plugin from flowplayer.rtmp-3.2.3.swf.



Usage:

You can use Flow Player by following the below simple steps to stream videos in your website.

1. The URLs, while live streaming through Flow Player, will have live stream names.
2. These names would be given when the stream is published to the server.
3. To start live streaming, add live property to the clip. Please find the code to be used in the .html of the Flow Player.




$f("live", "http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf", {

clip: {
url: 'my_lifecast',
live: true,
// configure clip to use influxis as our provider, it uses our rtmp plugin
provider: 'influxis'
},

// streaming plugins are configured under the plugins node
plugins: {

// here is our rtpm plugin configuration
influxis: {
url: 'flowplayer.rtmp-3.2.3.swf',

// netConnectionUrl defines where the streams are found
netConnectionUrl: 'rtmp://dk2isqp3f.rtmphost.com/flowplayer'
}
}
});




4. Now you can start broadcasting from Flash Media Live Encoder which will be picked up by the Flow Player.

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