I’ve been sneeking around the web for a free flash player and with reference from Menalto’s Gallery discussions I found JEROENWIJERING.COM website with its FLV MEDIA PLAYER. For noncommercial use its free and has lot of nice features:
- high customizeability through supported flashvars (variables) that you can set to customize the player’s UI and functions
- it supports playlists supported playlist formats
- you can use a large list of all third-party plugins for the FLV Media Player for use in third party apps like Joomla, WordPress etc
on site can be found nice collection of tutorials where you can start with player features exploration
- A tutorial on embedding the player in your site.
- A tutorial with all functions of the javascript API.
- A tutorial on adding captions and an audiodescription (accessibility).
- A tutorial on FLV encoding and video formats.
For quickstart use web based wizard for easy player setup which creates embedable list of parameters for your web page
Some common info regarding flash video is on wikipedia, Adobe website (flash video central, encoding calculator) and a few posts bellow you can find online services for conversion to flv format
