Basic and Advanced Installation of SS4UPlayer

SS4UPlayer Advanced Setup wizard

Upload the swfobject.js,SS4UPlayer.swf into your server and paste the customized code into your site. Follow the four steps to customize your own Design.

 

Step 1: Select Setup Type

Progressive Streaming

Is it Progressive or Streaming Player. If it is Streaming player you need to have streaming server and please provide streaming server url below. eg: rtmp://www.hostname.com/vod

Single Video Multiple Videos

Number of Videos you want to play in this player setup


 
 

Step 2: Customize and Build Your Player

Player parameters

Path Of the Streaming server

Location of the file to play eg: http://www.hostname.com/video.flv

Location of the preview image eg: http://www.hostname.com/preview.jpg

Title of the file to play

Description of the mediafile.

Your Logo URL

Enable Info Button

Enable Fullscreen Button to toggle

Enable Scale Button

Enbable Volume Controls

Enable Timer view on the player

Enable BigPlay Button

Enable Right Click Menu Controls to control the player

Hide mouse, after specified time limit for best video viewing.

Number of seconds for which mouse will be hidden

Double Click Enable, to toggle between fullscreen and normal

One Click Control, for to toggle between play and pause

SpaceKey Toggle, for to toggle between play and pause

Enable Auto Play, in the starting

Default Volume(Minimum 0 and maximum is 1. Eg: 0.5)

Player Skin Design

The default video Size. Give only 1,2,3 for different view sizes.

The spacing between each controls in the control bar

Bottom Controlbar's height

The Volume Bar Length/Width

 

Bottom Control Bar background color

Transparency level for upper half of control bar

 

Bottom Control Bar background color

Transparency level for bottom half of control bar

 

Bottom Control Bar Border color

Bottom Control Bar Border Transparency Value

 

The Color of timer Background

The Transparency value of timer Background

 

The Color of timer Background

The Transparency value of timer Background

 

Current Timer Text color

 

Total Video Length Timer Text color

Height of the Scrubber

 

The Entire Progress Scrubber color

Transparency Value for the Entire Progress Scrubber

 

Current Progress Scrubber color

Transparency Value for the Current Progress Scrubber

 

Filter color - Which is for volume bar border color

Transparency Value - Which is for volume bar border Transparency value

 

All the control Button's color

 

Info Titlte Text color

 

Info Description Text color

 

Info background color

Info background Transparency Value

Width of the Player

Height of the Player

Playlist Properties

This is going to be your XML File, You need to upload it to your server

Show Chapter/Playlist control on the player. Only 6 Videos Will be allowed

Location of the file to play eg: http://www.hostname.com/video.flv

Location of the preview image eg: http://www.hostname.com/preview.jpg

Title of the file to play

Description of the video file.

Add Another Video
 
 

Step 3: Preview Your Player

 
 
 

Step 4: Copy Your Code*

SS4UPlayer Basic Setup

With SS4UPlayer anyone can play videos. We can use SS4UPlayer for both progressive download and Streaming by changing a single value in flashvars.server

For Progressive download : flashvars.server ="null"

For Streaming flashvars.server = "rtmp://hostname/vod" //Please replace the "hostname" with your server name

The player works on both Windows and Linux Platform

The following are the basics steps to install the player

 
  • Have a web server, or have your web site hosted
  • Place the ss4uplayer  files on the server
  • Place your video files on the server
  • Include ss4uplayer in your web pages

After you download the SS4UPlayer you can extract the SS4UPlayer files  with any of decompressing softwares like , 7-Zip, WinRAR, or WinZip.
After decompressing the file you will get in a single folder called "SS4UPlayer"
The SS4UPlayer folder will contain the following files

    • SS4UPlayer-v1.swf - The player;
    • swfobject.js  - script to load player
    • readme.html  -  Demo page
    • ss4udemovideo.flv  -  Demo video
    • preview.jpg  - Preview Image

To have fast  test run of  your installation just  copy this folder (SS4UPlayer) to your web server root and point your browser to the following location:

http://www.servername.com/SS4UPlayer/readme.html
If the installation is correct the video file should start playing.

Kindly note SS4UPlayer essentially supports only video formats supported by Adobe Flash.

The following file types can be played with Flash:
  • .flv - These are Flash video files, as created by Adobe Media Encoder and other programs. Flash Video (.flv files) is a container format, meaning that it is not a video format in itself, but can contain other formats such as MPEG-4 or H.264.
  • .f4v - These are standard mp4 files (MPEG-4) that can be played back by Flash Player 9 Update 3 and above.

Integrate SS4UPlayer with your web pages

To install/ embed  SS4UPlayer in your  web page follow the following steps:

  1. Include file swfobject.js in the web page
  2. Upload the SS4UPlayer.swf
  3. Upload the video file in any of the formats supported by Flash
  4. Copy the code given below in your webpage in between the html tags

Include the following changes in the code below before copying to your file

1. To include your movie file, "ss4udemovideo.flv" should be changed to the name of your video and the path of the video to the path of your video.

flashvars.videoPath = "images/flv/ss4udemovideo.flv"; // ss4udemovideo.flv should be changed to the name of your video and also the path of the video is to change the path of where your video lies in your server

Please copy the code given below

 
 
 

For videos being  streamed from Streaming Server

Include the following changes in the code below before copying to your file

1. To include your movie file ss4udemovideo.flv should be changed to the name of your video and also the path of the video is to change to the path of where your video lies in your server
flashvars.videoPath = "images/flv/ss4udemovideo.flv";
2. Please replace the "hostname" with your server name and vod with
flashvars.server = "rtmp://hostname/vod" e.g "rtmp://yourserver.com"

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