Flash Player, Flashvars, XHTML: Got Experience?

Soniclight wrote on 1/20/2008, 10:49 PM
Hello,

Since I can't afford expensive Adobe and other software to create players, I'm using what is considered one the best free ones, JW (Jeroen Wijering --http://www.jeroenwijering.com/) FLV Player.

Contrary to its name, it plays both SWF and FLV, and is a versatile for other uses.

Right now, I'm only playing with a single player and single SWF file.

The JW player page embed is great because the code is so simple -- no complicated <object> type stuff. All one needs the small mediaplayer.swf, and the Flash file. (I'll give you an example at the end on how small and easy it is.)

I'm still on a learning curve with all of this, and got things down to what I like, except for a couple things. I've left messages at their forum, but seems like newbies are kind of ignored.

Whatever the case, here are the two issues I'm running up against:

A) Player controlbar colors - all figured out except border:

I've seen no flashvars to change the outer edge of the player. The actual player module (mediaplayer.swf) may be a place to tweak this or not -- but one can't open it except with some specialized code editor, which I don't have.

XHTML is used as an adjust file to tweak other things, but I haven't ventured into this yet, for I'm satisfied with the simplicity of the JW, except for not being able to change said border.

No matter how one changes the other aspects of the controlbar, that one thing stays at default white or light gray.

B) Larger controlbar height for the more visually impaired.

Same problem as with the above: Can't find a flashvar or how/where to tweak up the height (created an XHTML file and/or ?)

You can see what I mean by the thin 1 pixel border and standard small-height of the controlbar by visiting my page with this player.

Below is said example of the code of that player and how simple the code is. I've only changed the location of the player file and Flash file to a generic one.

Add the "mediaplayer.swf" and presto, done.

Got experience, wisdom, solutions for the above Qs?
Thanks.
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Go see this player as per colors I chose and put in the above code HERE

Comments

Soniclight wrote on 1/22/2008, 7:40 AM
Yah, pretty much what I suspected when I posted the above...
Not the forum for such a Q. Oh, well.
kdm wrote on 1/22/2008, 10:30 AM
Soniclight - I haven't looked at that player in a while, but any vars available should be documented. These would be set by the designer, so long and short of it, if it isn't implemented as a variable by the designer and in the docs, there isn't much you can do to alter it.

I went with an internal Flash player on my site (www.fortepost.com) to have more control over the look and feel, but of course that's more complicated than an html-embedded player.

The one you are using is good choice though since it supports a wide range of media in a single player, even if you have limited control over the look of it.
Soniclight wrote on 1/26/2008, 8:34 AM
Kdm,

Hey, someone actually answered :)

I can be a bit over-picky (neurotic) in design sometimes and get hung up on one tiny thing. But I did manage to pull of a fairly decent one for an .mp3 of one of my older music compositions with this JW player.

Doesn't look bad for a free code job:
--- Tacked in an &image var and for fun, I stuck the player in between two tables on my website's homepage.

Maybe one day when I actually need it, I'll buy something where I can go "Aero" and glassy, fancy, etc.
kdm wrote on 1/26/2008, 10:03 AM
Looks like you were able to customize it enough to fit well into the site design - I like how you have it neatly tucked into the flow and color scheme - looks good.
Soniclight wrote on 1/27/2008, 2:54 AM
Thanks. It was one of those "Hmmm... wonder what this would look like" motions of the mouse that turned out kind nice. Creative semi-accident of sorts :)
Soniclight wrote on 1/27/2008, 2:54 AM
Thanks. It was one of those "Hmmm... wonder what this would look like" motions of the mouse that turned out well. Creative semi-accident of sorts :)