XEON series – The vbFLV Video Player dpflv_preview.jpg Release Date: 2006-11-13
Revision: 1.0
Features:- XML Based FLV Player
- Single playlist population
- Fade in/out over thumbnails
- Auto-detect Normal or Widescreen video formats
- Auto-detect Scroll-bar on if more than 5 videos in XML file
- Optimized for vBulletin using a single ‘conditional’
- Optimized picture clarity/quality
- Slide Scroll bar to view other movies
- Uses javascript object embed for all known browser compatibility issues
As many members requested, here at vbulletin.org, I designed this video player. It is XML driven, and the full vBulletin integrated version will be a commercial product, with many added features.
To compliment the XEON vbMp3 Player I brought you, the XEON series vbFLV Video Player, is another feature packed add-on. This is currently designed as a popup.
The vbFLV Video Player allows you to add unlimited video footage from various sources. There are no limits on FLV streaming, but you may wish to think about bandwidth consumption, if you intend to have very long movie clips. Note: most FLV clips are between 1-2Mb’s each, due to compression used. I would suggest you read these instructions carefully for no problems to occur, installation is fairly straight forward but setup will take longer.
Broadcast streaming video directly from your vBulletin forum.
You can encode your own movie files into the FLV format.
Use websites like
www.keepvid.com to download any video from Google, YouTube, iFilm, and numerous other video websites. Visit
www.keepvid.com for a full list.
Bandwith Consumption:
Due to design of this player and will rarely find flv files around websites, the player is restricted to local flv files only.
What is FLV?
FLV is video format used by Flash, it is possible to take a 50Mb mpeg file and convert it to a 512k FLV stream, reducing the file size to around 10Mb. Giving you a high compression ratio of 5:1 in most cases. Is it more common on Google, YouTube, myspace, and many other video hosting websites.
Editing the XML file:
You can change all titles, descriptions, thumbnails and flv titles in the XML file. To edit it just right-click and select open with either Notepad, Wordpad or TextEdit (if you’re using a Apple).
Adding more videos:
Each video in the XML file is setup like this:
Code:
<item>
<date>13 November 2006</date>
<descr><b>Example 3</b></descr>
<video>example3.flv</video>
<image>example3.jpg</image>
</item>
So, we have Date, Description, video_name.flv and video_name.jpg – each videos detail is enclosed between < item > tags.
Thumbnails & Descriptions Thumbnails:
These small images must be created in any graphics program (The player will work without these thumbnails). If you do wish to create these images then they should be of a maximum size (width=70 and height=50), making them all the same size does look better, if they don't show up make sure you have named them the same as the details in the XML file. Note they must be non-progressive jpg images.
Creating the Thumbnail Images:
You can easily create the images by playing the video you want the image for, pause it at the point where you would like the screenshot. Now Hold down the ALT key and Press PRT SCR – this will take a screenshot of just the player, open any image program and select Paste. Crop the image and resize until it is no larger than 70x50 pixels, save as a jpg.
Description:
You can add short titles and dates to your videos (as shown in the screenshot and demo, this data is entered in the XML file.
Transcoding your movies to FLV format Free FLV Encoders: Riva VX: Riva FLV Encoder - Riva FLV Encoder
Transcodes AVI, MPEG, Quicktime, WMV and more codecs.
Commercial FLV Encoders: Free Video Encoders/Converter: Convert Video AVI MPEG MPG WMV MOV Each other More FLV Encoders can be found here: Flv encoder Free Download
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Oops! Missed that off as well..lol
Re: XEON Series - vbFLV Video Player 
It will be fully vBulletin integrated, since it will require a major setup, per forum. 
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