Step by step installation

Your player is ready to go when you recieve it, it can be uploaded to your server, you can modify the FlashVars in the html file to point to your FLV video file and it will work:

To change your movie link dynamically from HTML you can use variables (FlashVars)
Your object tag will show:
function playMovie() { // initialize net connection and stream location = "rtmp://190.54.255.162/videos"; //file = "streams/MyMovies/AtomBomb1946_300k"; setupCommStream(location, file); initMovie(); }

Your Flash code that is hard coded can be turned into variables and sent dynamically to the FCS FLV video player. In the example above we have hidden the RTMP as a hardcoded variable in the Flash .FLA file but, you'll also see how we simply // commented out the actual file location in the FLA file so, it can be sent to flash dynamically, allowing us to serve many movies using only a single player.

1. Open your html document and set the connection path to your FCS .FLV video file as seen below:

You can see the javascript used to open a larger sized browser window from within your flash movie in the HTML code above. You will also notice the path to your .FLV movies which is what you modify to change the video you want to play (NOTE: Do not add the .FLV extension in your path to the video file) :

FCS Installation
1. In your FCS application folder on your server create a new folder called video
2. Upload the main.asc file into this video folder
3. Now, create another new folder inside the folder you just created and call it streams
4. Lastly, create a folder called MyMovies inside the streams folder and upload your FLV video files to this MyMovies directory

How to control FCS FLV Player by modifying the source code

You can completely control player functionality and design by modifying the FLA files actionscript code using Flash MX or Flash MX 2004:

Our FCS FLV Player supports the following features:

ABOUT An optional button to show a logo or other related information when the about button is clicked
AUTOPLAY When you pass the flash variable AP=off the FLV file will load but, be paused so, you can embed multiple video players into a single page and using flashvars choose which ones will play when the page loads and which videos will be paused.
MUTE When the mute button is clicked all audio is turned off and the video is paused
PLAY Starts when the video begins or when the play button is clicked after a movie has been paused
STOP Is when the video ends or when the stop/zoom buton is clicked, this returns the movie being played to the begining
PAUSE This button will pause the video at the point in the timeline and when clicking the play button, the video, will play from the point on the movies timeline that the pause button was clicked
BUFFER The buffer value can be hard coded or set as a variable using FlashVars
SCRUBBING Moves the video timeline every time the video scrubber is moved to a position on the movies timeline
ZOOM The Zoom button opens a larger sized browser window and stops the smaller player from playing, cuurently the zoom turns the 320x240 video player to a popup 640x480 video player

Tracking the end of the video or total time is done automatically by FCS communicating dirctly with the SWF file.

Additional variables can be added easily by including & sybols between variables. The example below shows how we use 2 variables to tell the popup zoom .SWF file that the movie has been resized to be larger and sets the controls centered on the bottom of the video without getting larger, the controls are constrained to the original size.
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" WIDTH="640" HEIGHT="544" id="player" ALIGN="center"> <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="VSPlayer.swf?file=movies/demos/AtomBomb1946_300k&zoom=on"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#333333> <PARAM NAME=salign VALUE=LT> <EMBED src="VSPlayer.swf?file=movies/demos/AtomBomb1946_300k&zoom=on" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="640" HEIGHT="544" NAME="player" ALIGN="center" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" swLiveConnect="true"></EMBED> </OBJECT>

The bufferring can be hard coded into the FCS powered player or passed as a Flash variable and tooltip text can be changed inside the fla file.

All of the code is clearly visible in the first frame of the top 3 layers, completely sperating the code from the design/colors of the player itself.