Encode to Flash, with Controls

[FreQi]

I'm interested in encoding an AVI (XviD+MP3) to a flash video that I can put up on my web site. I've found various apps that will let me make some pretty nice .flv's, but there are no player controls...I'm mainly interested in just a Play/Pause, Scroll bar and Volume set.

I'm not opposed to commercial software, and I've already tried using the demo's of ADShareit Lite (http://www.adshareit.com/video-to-swf-lite.html), Snosh (http://www.snosh.net/), Flash Video Studio (http://www.flashvideostudio.com/), On2 Flix Standard (http://www.on2.com/index.php?387), and a couple free one's like MediaCoder (http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/) and Windows MovieMaker.

Some of them just lock up, some will make an flv which seems to be something I can't embed in a web page, and others make SWF's but they either don't have player controls or they are wider than the encoded video for some reason.

Any suggestions for alternatives would be appreciated.

[sillKotscha]

I'd suggest using jeroen wijering's FLV Player (http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player) ... and btw, since when do the files have the controls?? isn't that the purpose of a player ;)

[FreQi]

Ah, now I get it. I had to mess around a while to understand what that was, but now I see that the FLV Player is more or less a Flash application that you use to wrap your FLV's with. Very nice! So all I need to do now is encode my videos to FLV then write the HTML/JavaScript to load them within the player that's embedded in the page.

Thanks for the heads up sillKotscha.

Any suggestions on an encoder then? I'm leaning twords Snoch at the moment.

[sillKotscha]

hmm, have a look at my little flash demo which u can download here (http://s3.massmirror.com/f835f8cf256d8fa8e64c8bd552b69c3e.html)... inside you will find an index.html - open that html page (right click -> open with notepad for html code or plain double click to see the result) and have a look at it... this is a very basic setup to embed flash files using the afore mentioned player...

- my first example (flash 6) was encoded using AutoMen, which u will find here at doom9

- my 2nd example (flash 8) was encoded using the method described here (http://sh0dan.blogspot.com/2006/09/command-line-flash-8-flv-encoding.html)

- and my 3rd example (flash 9 with AVC content) was encoded using MeGui - as with adobes latest plugin release it is possible to use h.264 content

the player offers many, many different ways to "play around" with flash - one more example is in my signature... have fun :)