This is the first tab and it is responsible to add videos in to our component.
HD FLV Player accepts both streaming and normal way of playing videos. By default it is set to none where you can add videos through following methods: Upload, Direct URL, YouTube URL and FFMPEG.
Adding videos through Upload method
Four fields will be visible when Upload is selected.
If you want to give the users option to switch between HD and Non HD videos you have to upload two formats of videos.
If you don’t want to give the users a choice then you can upload any one of the video, either HD or Non HD. Leave the second field “Upload HD Video (optional)” as blank.
After uploading the videos you also have to upload thumb image and preview image for the respective video.
Below this, there is video info section where you can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign playlist, sort order(recently we added Ajax sorting where you can sort the videos simply by click and drag from the Videos tab), enable post roll ,pre roll ad and mid roll for this video.
Adding videos through URL method
Upload the videos and images through FTP to any location on your web server. For example you can add videos to videos folder and images to images folder on your web server and provide the absolute path here.
Like this:
http://www.yourdomain.com/videos/video.mp4
http://www.yourdomain.com/images/image.jpg
Below this, there is a video info section where you can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign playlist, sort order(recently we added Ajax sorting where you can sort the videos simply by click and drag from the Videos tab), enable post roll and pre roll ads for this video.
Adding videos from YouTube
To avoid bandwidth consumption from your web server you can also add videos to the YouTube and can provide YouTube link here.
You can get the YouTube URL from the video info box on the right side of the YouTube website.
Below this, there is the video info section where you can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign playlist, sort order(recently we added Ajax sorting where you can sort the videos simply by click and drag from the Videos tab), enable post roll and pre roll ad for this video.
Adding videos through FFMPEG
Before you start uploading the videos using FFMPEG, make sure that you have provided the path of your FFMPEG on the HD FLV Player settings
If you are not sure about the path to mention there please check with your hosting provider for the details.
After you set the path to FFMPEG you can upload any HD files to convert it to lower resolution automatically. You need not upload thumb or preview image when using FFMPEG which will be created automatically.
Below this, there is video info section where you can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign playlist, sort order(recently we added Ajax sorting where you can sort the videos simply by click and drag from the Videos tab), enable post roll and pre roll ads for this video.
Lighttpd
Adding videos through URL method
Provide the path to the Non HD videos or HD videos or both the path if you have. Also provide the path to the thumb and preview image.
Below this, there is video info section where you can add Title, Description, Target URL for the video, assign playlist, sort order(recently we added Ajax sorting where you can sort the videos simply by clicking and dragging from the Videos tab), enable post roll and pre roll ad for this video.
RTMP
Provide the Streamer path which would be rtmp://edge01.fms.dutchview.nl/botr
And the video URL would be bunny.flv from the below RTMP file
rtmp://edge01.fms.dutchview.nl/botr/bunny.flv
Also there is a field for thumb and preview image URL which you can mention
streamerpath = [protocol]/[servername]/[application]
URL=[streamname]
1. [protocol]: You can use the following protocols: rtmp, rtmpt, rtmpe, rtmpte, rtmps
2. [servername]: this is the IP Address, or the domain name of your server. (i.e. localhost)
3. [application]: use “vod” unless you have changed the name of the folder
4. [streamname]: use the name of your video file (including the extension).
EXAMPLE URLS
rtmp://localhost/vod/mp4:mystream.f4v
rtmpe://localhost/vod/myvideo.flv
Sorting / ordering the videos
Ordering or sorting the videos on HD FLV Player component has become simpler now. It can be done easily by dragging and dropping.
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