Embedded Players

[Hookerbot9000]

Hi, I have a few questions about embedded flash/html 5 players. I need one that has support for mkv, avi, flv, mpg, and mp4. I'll be streaming (mainly) 720p content through it. I'd like it to have volume control, pause/play (ofc), scrolling, etc. Oh, and fullscreen :v:. Opensource is greatly preferred.

What are some of the best known ones? Do any come with security risks? Will I need anything other than LAMP for it?

Thanks.

[Snakess]

[QUOTE=Hookerbot9000;32407485]Hi, I have a few questions about embedded flash/html 5 players. I need one that has support for mkv, avi, flv, mpg, and mp4. I'll be streaming (mainly) 720p content through it. I'd like it to have volume control, pause/play (ofc), scrolling, etc. Oh, and fullscreen :v:. Opensource is greatly preferred.

What are some of the best known ones? Do any come with security risks? Will I need anything other than LAMP for it?

Thanks.[/QUOTE]

Haven't really used HTML5 video players yet, apart from [url]http://www.projekktor.com/[/url] which I found pretty easy to setup and use.

[yatesx32]

I'm not aware of any one player that will do all of those things, which is why a lot of people turn to services like YouTube to handle hosting and rendering for them, then simply hotlink into YouTube.

The problem with HTML5 media at the moment is that we still have people using IE6 (and worse) and it's going to be a long time before we have widespread HTML5 media support in common browsers.

If you're really against services like YouTube, really google is your friend. I noticed that very few people have replied here, that's probably because they don't want to do google searches for you.

[jaybuz]

[url]http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/[/url]

I don't think you can stream MKV, AVI and MPG. That's why google converts all videos flv.

[reeferdk]

You can't find anything that will be able to stream those formats as far as i know,..

You CAN however, use FFMPEG or similar to convert the videos into something that can be streamed to a HTML5 or Flash video player, but that can't be done with ONLY LAMP and you need to run your own VPS or server for that probably.

[Hookerbot9000]

Thanks for the responses. I was googling, but never really found what I needed.

Reeferdk, I'll try out using FFMPEG to convert the media, thanks :v:. What I meant by LAMP was not shared hosting or otherwise, but that I have a server (VPS) that runs on CentOS and has Apache 2, MySQL, PHP etc installed and running, so I should be ok there.