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Change Log

• V 2.0 (7/23/2009) :
  1. For easier Hana Flv Video tag creation, new popup dialog is added. You can directly define the values using the form and click OK to create the tag. Please see the screenshot 4 for the example. The buttons in the editor will only appear for WP v2.5+

  

• v 1.8 (7/21/2009) :
  1. Fixed Minor bug with FlowPlayer v2 . It was not properly showing under IE7.
  2. FlowPlayer v3.1.1 player is added. Originally intended to upgrade the old version, but decided to leave old version due to some minor differences.
• v 1.7: Adding additional attributes for the players more advanced options. Also added a method to show FLV movie within the theme template files (such as sidebar.php)
• v 1.5: Adding FLV Player Maxi
• v 1.1: Lots of debuging.
• v 1.0: Initial Release with OS FLV (GPL) , FlowPlayer (GPL) flv players

Now you can easily embed the FLV Flash videos in your WordPress Blog. I have packaged the two GPL FLV Flash player, OS FLV and FlowPlayer. So you can use them freely without worries even for the commercial purpose unlike the JW player – If you have AdSense or display ads showing , you should purchase the player according to its website.

Flv Player MAXI

FlowPlayer V2

OS FLV

Flow Player V3

Installation

1. Download and unzip the zip file. Upload hana-flv-player folder with all of its contents to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the `Plugins` menu in WordPress Admin Interface.
3. Adjust the default settings in the ‘Settings’ menu in the Admin Interface if you want to.
4. Use [hana-flv-player video=’…’ /]in your blog article. Attribute `video` is the only mandatory item where you define the video file. It can be full URL or absolute or relatvie path.

If you want a quick test and see if it’s working fine, goto Hana Flv Player settings admin page and copy the example shown in the bottom and paste in your blog article.

How to use

When you write an article , you can use [hana-flv-player /] tag to embed the flash video player. The ‘video’ attribute is mandatory to indicate the video file . There are other optional attributes and the default values for the options can be defined in the Admin settings page. See the below for the example.

This is minimum usage format.

[hana-flv-player video="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/hana-flv-player/babyhana.flv" /]

This is usage with all attributes defined.

[hana-flv-player
    video="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/hana-flv-player/babyhana.flv"
    width="400"
    height="320"
    clickurl="http://yourwebsite.com/"
    player="2"
    autoplay="false"
    loop="false"
    autorewind="true"
    splashimage="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/plugins/hana-flv-player/splash.jpg"
/]

Attributes explained:

• video: URL of the flv video file. This is mandatory.
• width: Width of the Flash player.
• height: Height of the Flash player.
• clickurl: If you want to open a website when a user clicks on the video, you can define the target website URL here.
• player: If set to “1″ , OS FLV will be used. If set to “2″, FlowPlayer V2 will be used. “3″ is for FLV Player Maxi. “4″ is the new FlowPlayer V3.
• autoload: If true, the movie will be loaded (downloaded). If false, the starting screen will be blank since no video is downloaded.
• autoplay: If true, the movie will play automatically when the page is loaded.
• loop: If Loop is true, the movie will replay itself constantly.
• autorewind: If AutoRewind is true, the cursor will be reset to the start of the movie when the movie is ended.
• splashimage: Only works with FlowPlayer. When autoload is off, this splash image will be shown in the player. It only supports JPEG images.

If you want to try the plugin quickly, you can just copy and paste the tag Example showing in the Plugin Setting page. The plugin comes with a small FLV file for testing so you will be able to see it.

Leave comment if you have any questions.

Have a nice day.

There are more samples for the advanced options.

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