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

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David // Dec 16, 2007 at 12:50 am

Anyway to change the play triangle? On some preview images it gets lost and some of my audience complains that they don’t know what to do. (I know, I know they should be able to figure it out but…) I’d like to customize the play image that shows up in the player (and myabe the control bar too?).
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hombrelobo // Dec 14, 2007 at 5:54 am

Fantastic plugin, thank you very much for your great job !
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Steve Joseph // Nov 24, 2007 at 9:18 pm

Sorry I figured it out…you had it commented right in the bufferlength. :-).. Good stuff!
Steve Joseph // Nov 24, 2007 at 2:11 pm

Hi and thanks for the great plug-in. I have a general question to anyone that may have experienced this and found a fix. My motion videos that are longer than 5-10 seconds work fine in the player. But I have a couple 3 second “wipes” and “transitions” that when the video ends and I try to replay or rewind, the player only plays about 1-2 seconds and never actually starts from the beginning again until the page is reloaded.

The dirty fix would be to add 2-3 seconds pad to the end of the video but again thats a dirty fix and I’d rather not have to go back into AE and to re-render my movies.

Anyone else experience this and found a workaround via the plug-in?

Thanks for your time and input.
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TheSouthernGuy // Nov 16, 2007 at 6:57 am

Awesome Plugin guys - well done!

To insert a single video as a post and then include it on your front page (or any page) use the following method:

1. create a post with the: [flv:/wp-content/uploads/myflv.flv 199 150]
in a new category callled ‘videos’ - can be anything as long as you know the category id.

2. create a new FILE called video.php with the following code and upload it to your theme directory:

3. include the video.php file anywhere :

Voila!
The latest posted videos will display on the page.

Cheers
Jonathan Menegon // Nov 12, 2007 at 8:55 pm

Hey,

I’m having issues with the plug-in when looking at categories. I’ve noticed that other people have had the same issue but solved it with the simple change of code. Unfortunately, I don’t seem to have category.php in my theme to be able to update it. I don’t have the string “excerpt” in Archive or Archives.php.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I’d really appreciate it!

http://selesu.com/fram

Thanks!
John H // Nov 9, 2007 at 1:44 pm

This is a useful plugin, but it’s easy to simply paste the embed code directly into a page. This gives you complete control of every setting plus the ability to use other format variations including play lists.
colm // Nov 8, 2007 at 9:27 am

HI there,
I’m most likely doing something dumb, but my file is playing in low resolution. The flv movie is 17 mgs but it loads in a couple of seconds.
is there something going on with compression/resolution?
it’s viewable here -www.olwil.com and the file on the server here -http://www.olwill.com/content/sequence_01.flv
Ronald // Oct 30, 2007 at 8:31 pm

Pls, pls add an options page!!!

Keep up great work!
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Sagittarius // Oct 25, 2007 at 6:03 am

Great plugin.

Therefore, would it be possible to use a better licensed player as this one here: http://flv-player.net/en/players/normal/license/ wich is released with CC-BY-SA License.

It’s very configurable. I’ve switched to it on my page: http://maison.passive.free.fr/index.php?tag=video
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Jason C // Oct 18, 2007 at 8:33 am

I just want to say I love this plug in. It works beautifully. I do have a question though. Is there any way to have some videos start playing automatically, while other videos require a click to play. I may have missed this somewhere, but any help would be greatly appreciated!
Sergio // Oct 7, 2007 at 1:55 pm

I don’t think it’s good, it doesn’t buffer anything, and you can’t pause it so it loads the full video to see it without cuts… needs a good polishing
Power // Oct 5, 2007 at 6:41 pm

It’s Awesome this pluging… Tnx .. Great job ;)
Janet // Oct 2, 2007 at 4:18 pm

I’m having trouble, only a few seconds will play before the player stops, ive increased the buffer size, any ideas?
deepak // Oct 1, 2007 at 11:57 am

hallo

the pluging is great but i cant get it to work on IE! its works great on firefox.

please help me
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Rated HD // Sep 20, 2007 at 3:11 am

I’m have the same issue as a few other users on this post with the video not showing up on my category and archive pages. I’ve scanned through the comments and haven’t found a working solution.

I’ve seen and tried the following:
“Basically, if you want the videos to play on your category page, you need to change category.php to use the_content( ) instead of the_excerpt( ).”

But I don’t see “the_excerpt” in my category.php file. Can someone please post or send me a working solution. Thanks in advance!
Mark // Sep 18, 2007 at 2:21 am

OK, I got it right. The code mentioned below was actually in my archive.php file and not in the category.php file:

“Basically, if you want the videos to play on your category page, you need to change category.php to use the_content( ) instead of the_excerpt( ).”

Fixed now and working like a charm. Still get the following problem though:

“I just installed this & it works great, except that the video is not aligning properly within the player while it preloads….ie, for the first few seconds while the video is loading, only the upper-righthand corner of the video appears, in the lower-right-hand corner of the player. The video fills the player as soon as the preload is done.”

Also, sometimes the video does not preload fully and ends abruptly when watching. I have to refresh the page and let it preload again and sometimes a third time for the video to play through to the end properly.
Covi // Sep 17, 2007 at 7:53 pm

Not Valid! :(

This plugin hide the invalid content with JavaScript… this is not valid markup, you use deprecated tag EMBED.

The standars validation’s objective is not a simple valid form.
Use these for a semantic and accesible web ;)

S!
Mark // Sep 16, 2007 at 12:45 pm

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but a few people questioned why the FLV embed does not work on the category page.

Basically, the category pages are using the excerpt of the article rather than the content. The excerpt, if not defined by the user, is just the beginning of the post (up to a max character count). The code pulling the excerpt from the post is removing any data (like the script tag) besides the p tag and content.

Basically, if you want the videos to play on your category page, you need to change category.php to use the_content( ) instead of the_excerpt( ).

Can anyone expand on this. I have looked in category.php as well as category-template.php for “the_excerpt”, “_excerpt”, just plain “excerpt” or anything similar and find nothing. I have also checked for “” in header.php and it is in place. My videos work on the Post page as well as the Home page but not on the Category page. It just shows code. See example here: http://www.gps-shop.co.za/gpstimes/index.php/category/gps-video-tutorials/

I also sometimes have the problem as described by Ellen:
“I just installed this & it works great, except that the video is not aligning properly within the player while it preloads….ie, for the first few seconds while the video is loading, only the upper-righthand corner of the video appears, in the lower-right-hand corner of the player. The video fills the player as soon as the preload is done. Is this somehow related to that watermark logo feature? Is there a way to turn that off”

I am using the MistyLook theme if that makes any difference.
deepak // Sep 16, 2007 at 10:14 am

hi

i love this pluging but i got a litle problem :(
i did everything like you told and have the flv player on my site but i can not get it to play my videos?? what did i do wrong??

my site name is: http://www.beatjunkiez.com
my flv files is in the folder i named: uploads
i have uploaded a file called: video.flv

this is what i update on my admin panel wp-flv options:

(Full) URL to flvplayer.swf: http://www.beatjunkiez.com/video/flvplayer.swf

Default URL to video files: /uploads

[flv:/videos/video.flv 480 368] i used this code in my post.

please help me out
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rasheed // Aug 29, 2007 at 6:41 am

Great plugin.

My problem the watermark is shown in the preview image before playing the video.

Is there any way to hide the watermark in the preview image ?

with regards
Ellen // Aug 21, 2007 at 8:10 pm

I just installed this & it works great, except that the video is not aligning properly within the player while it preloads….ie, for the first few seconds while the video is loading, only the upper-righthand corner of the video appears, in the lower-right-hand corner of the player. The video fills the player as soon as the preload is done. Is this somehow related to that watermark logo feature? Is there a way to turn that off
Farhad // Aug 21, 2007 at 1:45 pm

I used this line:

[flv:url to a flv video 480 368]

And I have added the wp_head() code in my files before the tag but I still get this message:

Get the latest Flash Player to see this player.

I love the plugin and I really want to get it working, would be nice if the new version (3.9) would be added too for video advertising.
xizor2000 // Aug 20, 2007 at 10:51 am

I don’t know why I can’t get it to work with my .flv files. The .swf files work though. What did I do wrong or miss out? :’(
Embed // Aug 17, 2007 at 5:27 pm

Another great tool bloggers can look at is called Triggit. It lets you drag and drop videos into your site without having to insert embed code. You can find it at

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Prodinho // Aug 17, 2007 at 4:46 am

E. Wrote:
“Is there a way to hide the play button icon in the middle of the image when the video is paused? *crosses fingers*”

I guess this might be what you’re looking for;

$flv_showicons: 0 to hide icons, 1 to show the play/loading icon in the middle of the display
E. // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:55 pm

Is there a way to hide the play button icon in the middle of the image when the video is paused? *crosses fingers*
Joseph Hollak // Aug 14, 2007 at 7:44 pm

Love the plug.

Have one hell of a time trying to get the watermarked logo to appear in the bottom right hand corner of the player.

Anyone else having the same problem?

Anyone have a minute to trouble shoot?
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Brian // Aug 11, 2007 at 6:38 pm

Thank you for the plug-in. It seems to be working well. I just sent you a small donation.
Prodinho // Aug 8, 2007 at 3:50 am

Hi,

I only wish it would be possible to exclude unregistered viewers to use the player.
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Rob // Aug 7, 2007 at 6:11 am

Hi,

Great plugin. If only there was a way to make a playlist - do you see this functionality coming in a the next version?

Rob
dude alert! // Aug 2, 2007 at 8:31 am

this is coolness.. i wish i am as patient as you developing plugins like this.. if i am not broke i would have donated.. =)

keepitipup..
Steve // Jul 31, 2007 at 4:50 pm

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but a few people questioned why the FLV embed does not work on the category page.

Basically, the category pages are using the excerpt of the article rather than the content. The excerpt, if not defined by the user, is just the beginning of the post (up to a max character count). The code pulling the excerpt from the post is removing any data (like the script tag) besides the p tag and content.

Basically, if you want the videos to play on your category page, you need to change category.php to use the_content( ) instead of the_excerpt( ).