FLV Embed (with video sitemap)

Latest version:
1.1
2008.04.22

FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV) into your blog using Jeroen’s FLV Player.

For commercial use and implementation, you need to purchase a license. I can help you with that and provide technical support if desired.

If you want information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has also written an excellent article which you can find on his site.

First of all, I do know there are already quite a few plugins that does similar things but I decided to make my own plugin for several reasons:

to enforce a standard plugin tag style (all of my other plugins use the same tag style)
no bells and whistles, this plugin embeds an FLV file and does it the easiest way
uses highly portable, extensible and future proof tags
XHTML compliant for those who cares about validation

Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports Google video sitemap generation, the first WordPress plugin that does it for you! ;)

FLV Embed in action

Video sitemap

Features

uses simple, intuitive tags to generate Flash video (FLV) movies for your posts
supports video sitemap generation
standards compliant: valid XHTML
many options are configurable, such as autostart, show/hide control bar, player colour, poster image, full screen button etc.
highly interactive admin option panel for player configuration
supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content
supports outputting poster image for RSS if desired
accessibility: requires Javascript to display FLV player, but will prompt user to enable Javascript when disabled
accessibility: prompt user to download latest Flash player if it is not installed or too old
accessibility: no annoying “click to activate” for IE users

Usage

This plugin uses one universal, standard tag style:

[flv:url width height]

url - the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
width - width of the FLV movie
height - height of the FLV movie

Jeroen’s FLV Player supports poster frame so you can turn on this feature via options if desired. The following two examples show FLV embed with and without poster frame.

Without poster frame
The poster frame feature is turned off by default.

Example input:

[flv:/video/demo.flv 480 368]

Example output:

With poster frame
In order to use this poster frame feature, you will need to turn it on via options. Once turned on, the player will look for preview image that share the same filename as the embedded FLV file. For example, if your embedded FLV file is “demo.flv”, the player will display “demo.jpg” as preview image. By default, the filetype of preview image is “jpg”, but this can be changed via options.

Example input:

[flv:/video/demo.flv 480 360]

Example output:

Version 0.3 onwards
Starting from version 0.3, it is possible to have your poster image at a different location than your FLV files. To achieve that, an optional 4th argument for the input tag and a new option $flv_posterpath were introduced. Below shows the tag syntax that should be used to provide a poster path:

[flv:movie poster width height]

movie - the URL of the FLV file, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
poster - the URL of the poster image, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
width - width of the FLV movie
height - height of the FLV movie

It is recommended that you try different settings for $flv_posterpath (found in option panel) and poster argument to have a feel how they work. There are several different ways how you could combine $flv_posterpath and optional poster path tag parameter to tell the plugin the poster location is not the same as the flv location.

If all your poster images are put within the same directory but not the same as the FLV files, change $flv_posterpath to point to your image directory, and no poster argument is required when using the embed tags. Make sure all the poster images have the same filename as the FLV files. If your poster images are scattered all over the places i.e. not within the same directory and not necessarily has the same filename as your FLV files, then use the poster argument to indicate where the poster image is.

The plugin detects the path used in the tags to determine if $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath should be used. In cases where absolute or site relative path are given as argument for the tags, $flv_posterpath and $flv_flvpath will have no effect on the output.

Users without Flash or Javascript
Unfortunately, about 2% of your users might not have Flash installed and about 10% of them might not have Flash 8 or above according to Adobe. For these users, the ufo.js will detect and output appropriate message that prompts these users to download and install latest Flash player onto their computers. Here’s an example screenshot that show you how this works:

Flash accessibility

While most modern browser supports Javascript, some users are too afraid that Javascript will screw up their computer so they turn it off just to be safe. This becomes a problem because this WordPress plugin relies on Javascript to display the FLV Player. To solve this problem, “noscript” tags are used to prompt these users to enable their Javascript and refresh the page for the Flash player to show up. Here’s an example screenshot:

Javascript accessibility

Text only output:
By default, this plugin will output text that reads “[See post to watch Flash video]” for your RSS feeds only. If you wished you could display the poster image in your RSS feeds by setting $flv_posterinfeed option (see below) to 1.

Demo RSS feed

Sitemap

Starting from version 1.0, FLV Embed supports video sitemap generation. In order to see the video sitemap option panel, you need to turn on the sitemap feature under your FLV Embed option panel.

The plugin will try to create a video sitemap file in your blog root but this might not be successful depending on your server configuration. If the plugin is unable to create the video sitemap file for you, then you will need to manually upload the video sitemap file to your blog root, chmod it “664″ (or “666″ depending on your server configuration) and tell the plugin where to locate your video sitemap under options.

Video sitemap settings

Custom field data are used by the plugin to generate the video sitemap. If you have been using FLV Embed in the past, you can tell the plugin to insert missing custom field data for all published post by clicking the “Update Custom Fields” button within your video sitemap option page. This will also update any existing custom fields should there be any noticeable changes.

Automatic custom field insert can be disabled on a per post basis by putting [flv:skip] at the end of your blog post. Each time video sitemap is rebuilt successfully, Google will be pinged about the sitemap updates automatically. This plugin will try not to ping Google more than once per hour (as per Google’s suggestion), but you can override this by manually pinging via the “Force Ping” button found in sitemap option panel.

Click on the demo below to have a look how the generated video sitemap will look like. You might want to “view source” to see the actual XML content.

Demo video sitemap

Options

Starting from version 1.0, you can change just about everything this plugin does using the plugin option panel. Below list some of the parameters that might be confusing for you when changing different options.

FLV Embed settings

$flv_useposter: 0 to disable poster frame, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image
$flv_posterinfeed: 0 to show text only output in feeds, 1 to display poster frame i.e. preview image in feeds
$flv_imagetype: Preview image extension, can be “jpg”, “png” or “gif”
$flv_posterpath: Path to poster images, trailing slash required
$flv_flvpath: Path to FLV movie files, trailing slash required
$flv_backcolor: Background color of the FLV Player *
$flv_frontcolor: Texts / buttons color of the FLV Player *
$flv_lightcolor: Rollover/ active color of the FLV Player *
$flv_screencolor: Background color of the display of the FLV Player *
$flv_logo: URL to watermark logo that will be displayed at the bottom right corner
$flv_link: URL to go to when the logo is clicked
$flv_overstretch: Defines how to stretch images/movies to make them fit the display.
- “true” will stretch them proportionally to fill the display
- “false” will stretch them to fit
- “fit” will stretch them disproportionally to fit both height and width
- “none” will show all items in their original dimensions.
$flv_largecontrols: 0 to disable, 1 to make the controlbar twice as large for visually impaired users
$flv_showdigits: 0 to hide the digits, 1 to show the digits for % loaded, elapsed and remaining time in the FLV Player
$flv_showicons: 0 to hide icons, 1 to show the play/loading icon in the middle of the display
$flv_showfsbutton: 0 to hide fullscreen button, 1 to show fullscreen button
$flv_show_stop: 0 to hide stop button, 1 to show stop button
$flv_showvolume: 0 to hide volume button, 1 to show volume button
$flv_showcontrolbar: 0 to hide control bar, 1 to show control bar
$flv_autostart: 0 to disable autostart, 1 to enable autostart (strongly discouraged as it’s annoying from a user perspective)
$flv_bufferlength: Number of seconds an FLV should be buffered ahead before the player starts it
$flv_volume: Startup volume for FLV Player

* These settings can be found in fullscreen.php as well which set the player appearance in full screen mode for older Flash users

Installation

Download and extract the “flv-embed” folder
Upload the “flv-embed” folder to your WordPress plugin directory, usually “wp-content/plugins”
Activate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
For video sitemap feature to work properly, you should follow the instruction here

Upgrade

Deactivate the plugin in your WordPress admin panel
Remove the “flv-embed” folder in your WordPress plugin directory
Follow the installation guide above

Download

FLV Embed plugin 1.1 for WordPress 2.5+ (58kb .zip)

If you are using older version of WordPress, please download FLV Embed 1.0 from here instead.

This plugin has been downloaded 14414 times since May 9, 2007
( 2392 times since version 1.1 )

If you like this plugin, express your love by donating and sharing this plugin with your readers!

Support

If you have any questions, suggestions, or found any bugs in this plugin, feel free to post them in your comments. I’ll try my best to answer them but there’s no guarantee, so don’t be disappointed if you do not hear back from me promptly. :/ Always include a URL to the problem page whenever you are asking for help, it will make it easier for me to figure out your problem. Lastly, if you find this plugin useful and feel like donating some money for my effort, please use the PayPal donate button above, thank you! <3

FAQs

I keep getting “Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.” message even though I have the latest Flash player. Why?
It is very likely that wp_head() function is missing in your theme’s header. To fix this, put the following code into your WordPress theme’s header file (usually header.php, under Presentation -> Theme Editor), right before the </head>:

<?php wp_head(); ?>

Why doesn’t my flash video stretch properly?
You need a better encoder, or you can also try different settings for $flv_overstretch option.

How can I change the location of the logo?
Unfortunately you cannot, by default the logo will show at the top right corner. You might be able to manually add transparent padding to your png logo to shift the logo to where you want it to be, though it is not recommended.

How can I align the video in the middle?
Put the following code into your theme’s stylesheet (for easy way of doing this, see MyCSS):

#player1, #player2, #player3 {text-align: center;}

How can I get the cool-sexy-fade-away-interface look as seen in the demo?
Uncheck the “Show the control bar” checkbox under option. ;)

Is (insert feature name) supported by this plugin?
If you know that a certain feature is supported by JW FLV Player but is not supported by this plugin yet, feel free to make a request. Otherwise, it might be hard for me to provide such functionality especially those related to player’s functionality and appearance.

How can I embed a video from sites like YouTube?
First, you will need to find out the location of the FLV file. KeepVid can help you with this. Once you find out the URL of the FLV file, use it as the file argument when using the FLV Embed tags. (version 1.0 has problem dealing with URL that has the “&” character, this will be fixed in the next version)

If you are willing to wait a little longer, FLV Embed 1.2 will support YouTube playback.

How long will it take for my videos to show up in Google’s search results once I submitted my video sitemap?
Nobody can tell for sure. It seems to me that Google is just experimenting with the video sitemap feature and has yet to put it into action i.e. indexing the flv and including them as search results.

I really like this plugin, what can I do to help?
It will be highly appreciated if you can donate whatever you think this plugin is worth, or you can also spread the love by linking back to this page and share this hopefully useful plugin with your readers. boogie

History

1.1 [2008.04.22]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.14
Added: New video sitemap appearance
Added: Auto remove invalid FLV files from custom field during custom field update
Changed: Admin option panel for WordPress 2.5+
Fixed: Only published post will be included in the video sitemap

1.0 [2007.12.30]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.12
Added: Admin option panel
Added: Video sitemap support
Added: Option to show/hide volume button
Added: Option to show/hide stop button
Added: Option to show large control bar for visually impaired users

0.3.2 [2007.05.31]

Added: Option to show poster image in feeds

0.3.1 [2007.05.19]

Fixed: poster path problem

0.3 [2007.05.10]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.7
Switched to SWFObject instead of ufo.js
Added: Option to show/hide logo with link
Added: Option to set poster and flv movie path
Added: Option to show/hide icons
Added: Option to set volume
Added: Optional tag parameter for poster path

0.2 [2007.02.16]

Upgraded FLV Player to 3.5
Added: Option to show/hide controller bar
Added: Option to change buffer length
Added: Option to set overstretch
Fixed: IE display problem

0.1 [2007.01.09]

Initial release

353 responses so far ↓

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FLV Embed Plugin | Artifacting // Jul 31, 2007 at 2:17 pm

[...] to display flash movies. Examples of it in use can be seen here and here. The plugin is called FLV Embed and was created by Yaosan Yeo. I’ve tried several other plugins that perform a similar [...]
Damian Baba // Jul 30, 2007 at 2:59 am

If you just use Youtubex.com to download the videos it works much better
cartini // Jul 27, 2007 at 3:18 am

Hi!
Plugin works just fine and as expected … BUT (didn’t you just know there was a but?) …

Whenever I go into Category-View (meaning, I click on a certain category in the sidebar), the player is not shown in the posts anymore, instead it shows the HTML-code for the player. If you want to check it out yourself, write me a mail, since I want to keep my blog as private as possible and don’t want to post a direct link.

Thanks in advance!
cartini
Krs // Jul 25, 2007 at 10:55 pm

Hi
I have just downloaded this plugin, and activated in wp-admin page. Now what is next? Where do i start? I just want a page where flv player at the top and list of video links below. Hope you can help me.
Thanks.
Los mejores plug-ins de Wordpress para tu blog | hombrelobo, una mente dispersa // Jul 25, 2007 at 4:45 am

[...] FLV embed : Este plugin nos incluye in player de vídeos para colocar fácilmente en nuestra web. Por ejemplo, lo he usado para mostrar esta película de John Wayne. [...]
极客吧 » Blog Archive » 记录我使用的WP插件 // Jul 22, 2007 at 4:28 am

[...] FLV Embed 0.3.2 用它输入flv视频非常简单。[...]
Ian Richardson // Jul 19, 2007 at 6:14 am

I’m using FLV embed on multilingual website, and i’m not sure how to edit the .php in two/more languages, in particular i want to display the’ get flash player links’:-

Get the latest Flash Player to watch the Showreel
[Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page]

i use ’snippets’ a feature of ‘gengo’ multilingual plugin in different .php files throughout my site, but inserting it here doesn’t seem to work.

any ideas how i could implement FLV multilingually.
If not no worries…sure i’ll find a way
Daivat // Jul 17, 2007 at 2:17 am

Hi,

I have seen your plugin. its very nice. i want the same functionality.

But i want the class for the same which i can integrate in my application. I don’t want to use wordpress.

Please reply me as soon as possible…

Regards,
Daivat.
Jengates Blog » Blog Archive » links for 2007-07-13 // Jul 13, 2007 at 7:23 pm

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BeRo // Jul 11, 2007 at 3:43 pm

I can’t put video in the middle, it is on the right side a bit.. can you gelp me? :)
Dave // Jul 11, 2007 at 1:35 pm

It is a nice plugin but when i use it i on my blog i get the movie twice even though i have entered the URL only once, what am i doing wrong here?

Greets

Dave
Updates to anchorite.org » anchorite.org // Jul 11, 2007 at 11:59 am

[...] FLV Embed - Standards compliant FLV embedding in your blog posts using SWFObject by Geoff and FLV Player by Jeroen. [...]
Sergey // Jul 10, 2007 at 4:06 pm

if you use excerpts, no image will be shown in RSS feed, unless you add “add_filter(”the_excerpt_rss”, … ” into your plugin body (at the bottom by other add_filter lines)
Jim // Jul 6, 2007 at 11:11 am

I have the default autostart value set to “0″ however, in some cases I may want to start a specific video to autostart without affecting everything else. Is there a way to do this via
[flv:......]

Thanks,

Great plugin!
Daniel // Jul 5, 2007 at 7:45 pm

It’s possible to know how many times each video has been viewed? If not, it’s hard to implement it in a future release? Thanks!!
theSupermarket // Jul 3, 2007 at 2:12 am

this is an amazing plugin. thanks for bringing flash video to wordpress. there is one option i would like to take advantage of: is there any way to loop the video?
Daniel // Jun 29, 2007 at 9:21 pm

Will be great to update this great plugin to allow inserting advertising (look at the latest version of JW FLV Player (3.9).
Three Meraki Minis at Yesh.com :: Brian Russell // Jun 29, 2007 at 5:57 pm

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Ayek // Jun 28, 2007 at 12:30 pm

Excellent work! Congratulations!
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robinersek // Jun 28, 2007 at 2:06 am

Hi guys,
poster frame doesn’t work here me either, anyone could fix it yet?

In full screen mode the control bar stays on screen, is there anyway to get that supercool fade effect work in fullscreen mode too?

If anyone knows how to do these, please let me know,
thanks,
Robin

p.s. Playlist functionality would be nice to have too!
Steve // Jun 24, 2007 at 12:15 pm

I’m having problems getting the poster frame to work consistently. So far, it works only on about half of my posts. I have verified that the names for both the jpg and flv files are identical and that they are located in the same folder. I am using identical upper/lower case for the file names and the tag.
The jpg files for both working and non-working posts have identical dimensions. In order to determine if there is a problem with the jpg file, I have renamed one of the functioning files to a non-functioning jpg file – and the poster still fails to display a preview.
I have tried naming files with short name using only alpha characters – no change.
I’m sure I’m just overlooking something very basic and would appreciate your assistance with this.
Before you visit the site to check code or other variables please be advised that the site contains graphic homosexual activity.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Steve
Cambio de plugin para mostrar los videos en Wordpress | HNKweb // Jun 24, 2007 at 7:07 am

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[...] used the FLV Embed plugin to add this FLV video to this blog, playing on Jeroen’s FLV player, and I will be [...]
Emmett // Jun 20, 2007 at 11:35 am

Hello,

Can I use this plugin without WordPress? Or does it only work with WordPress?

You’re plugin looks very nice.

Thanks,

Emmett
Director // Jun 20, 2007 at 8:22 am

QUESTION:
Is there a way to show the playlist for some and not all videos on wp?
SCENARIO:
Movie “A” is a single file, no issues here, movie “B” is split in 8 parts, rather than showing 8 different screens is there a way to show one, even without displaying the playlist but being able to sequence multi parts in one player?
EXAMPLE:
[flv:movieurl1,movieurl2,movieurl3,ect 400 400]
Is this possible?
Dwayne Moore // Jun 20, 2007 at 12:49 am

Hey, great plugin! Thanks!

Any way to use it in the header, or is it just for posts?
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lc // Jun 19, 2007 at 4:39 pm

Regarding incorrect aspect ratios:

Okay, the problem was on my end. It looks like the version of FFMPEG I was using was not setting the ratio even though it was specified in the command line. A newer version of FFMPEG sets the ratio correctly and is then rendered correctly in flv-embed.

Thanks!
lc // Jun 19, 2007 at 3:19 pm

Greetings!

Schweet plugin! It’s the best available!

Question: When I attempt to play FLV files that are of 16:9 aspect ratio they end up playing as 4:3 with a black border that is the resolution I specify when embedding the FLV file. I’ve played around with $flv_overstretch to no avail. Any ideas?

Thanks!
lc
Sergey // Jun 19, 2007 at 2:14 am

I have to change the lines:
// $fs = get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/fullscreen.php'; // $player = get_settings('siteurl') . '/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf';

with
$fs = '/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/fullscreen.php'; $player = '/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf';

otherwise, the posters are not shown on site’s title page, but are shown on individual poster pages.
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Bryan // Jun 11, 2007 at 3:15 pm

nevermind, I figured it out! thanks again.

Bryan
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Bryan // Jun 11, 2007 at 9:43 am

This plug in is great. Works like a charm.

I would love to be able to get rid of the black border around the videos when they play. How would I do that? I tried setting the flv_overstretch to none.

thanks

Bryan
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Lillian Divide // Jun 9, 2007 at 10:56 pm

Hrm, I tried setting $flv_showcontrolbar to 0 to get that nice little fade animation, but I’ve not had any success. Help?
Frox // Jun 9, 2007 at 8:50 am

Ah,…I thought I had already tried that one. Thanks (:
jan // Jun 9, 2007 at 8:17 am

Frox: set the option: $flv_showcontrolbar = 0; so the bar will fade in and out….

maybe the description of this option is not so clear!?

jan
Bruce // Jun 9, 2007 at 1:11 am

Veronica, I’ve looked at your site, but why are you happy with having two flash videos displayed, it looks kind of odd. I have the same result with this plugin and am wondering if this is what is expected or if . If not then I can’t find out how to fix it.

Also on my site I have am using another plugin which works just fine and runs a single video as expected. Check it out by clicking on my name.
veronika // Jun 8, 2007 at 6:41 pm

yippee, yay! ( jumping up and down clicking heels together)
it works! what a cool plug-in. thanks for creating it and responding to my little problem.

is there any way to create a clickable fullscreen just at the end of the video?
for a post roll ad?
Tennessee Mom // Jun 8, 2007 at 1:08 pm

I said it before a long time ago, but I wanted to tell you again how much I love this plugin. It’s always worked perfectly for me. Thanks for all your hard work on it.
Frox // Jun 6, 2007 at 6:19 pm

Hey, first off thanks for the great plugin it’s working great!

I was wondering how you get the cool-sexy-fade-away-interface look. Are there setting I need to play with?

Thanks,
Frox
eyn // Jun 5, 2007 at 2:45 pm

For those of you who are having problem and keep getting “Get the latest Flash Player to see this player” despite having the latest version of Flash Player, most likely your WordPress theme does not follow the theme guidelines and does not include the wp_head() function required by many plugins to work properly. To fix this yourself, open header template file and add in the following line right above/before </head>:

<?php wp_head(); ?>
veronika // Jun 4, 2007 at 10:54 pm

I’m having a problem i hope someone can help me with.
I’ve installed everything as instructed.
Keeps telling me I need to “download latest flash player”.

I already have the latest version - confirmed by visiting Macromedia’s site.

Already tried the following:
change read/write prefs
re-install plug-in
reinstall FF, Safari

Here’s the weird part. I can view the player on Jeroen’s site but when i install on my site… i get the warning “download latest flash Player”

anyone have any insight?
Is there a flash 8 version of the player available?

btw.. my site is NSFW so be careful at work please.
Many thanks to everyone. V
veronika // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:02 pm

hey there. looks like a nice plug-in but i keep getting a message to download flash 9.
i have it already.

i’ve been using the adbrite player for some time which i think it uses flash 8.
i’m worried my users won’t have flash 9. (don’t want to put them through the same thing i’m going through.) any workaround?
Nic // Jun 4, 2007 at 2:31 am

Hi, I’m a student currently learning how to make my own website and to embed a website video players such as flash etc on my site. I tried to embed one recently but it does not work with IE (internet explorer) browser, but works well with Mozilla fire fox. I’m writing to ask you if you could tell me how to get HTML code for your a player or equivalent which works with IE. Your help will be greatly appreciated.Kind regards, Nic.
jckap // Jun 1, 2007 at 6:46 pm

For some reason this isn’t working (as in, on this site I’m adding this comment to) with IE7 or 6. Firefox performs great, but I’m stumped as to why IE is having an issue with it. I keep getting:

“Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.”

On all of the above spots where the video should be.

I actually tried at work on another machine, and got the same results. I even followed the link and installed to make sure I had the newest version, and restarted.

Any suggestions?
Lawrence // Jun 1, 2007 at 12:57 am

Perhaps it is my server then (I use 1&1). I buffers and plays fine, but then it jams up and I either have to wait, or the episode ends abruptly.