How to send variables to the Swf player?
July 17, 2008 12:00 AM
Hey guys i have a question. Currently we are making courses to put online that plays FLVs. We noticed that with various browser extensions for firefox and Real Player's "one click download" Tag that appears on ontop of online video, users will be able to download the content. So we decided to use the flash streaming protocol "RTMP" (e,g RTMP://host.com/Course/video1) to output our video. WHat is RTMP? RTMP stands for Real -Time Messaging Protocol. This protocol is used by FMS (flash media servers) to deliver bite-sized data of real time objects, video, and audio to end users. It maintains a persistent connection only delivering the data currently being viewed by the user at that exact given moment. The benefits we get with it compared to progressive download (e.g http://host.com/Course/video1.flv) is that you get immediate playback; can skip to a point part way through a clip without needing to download the beginning; rather then using bandwidth for viewing the entire file, it uses optimal bitrate delivery on an as-needed basis; and it protects Digital Rights (as content does not have to be downloaded to viewer's machine).
I had setup a test server with an alternate FMS www.wowza.com (which has a free "full fuctional" version limited to 10 concurrent connections) on our local network and got it to work perfectly on a stanard webpage.So my main question, is how i could get this implemented in lectora? We publish the courses as html. What i need to do is get lectora to call my RTMP stream (e,g RTMP://host.com/Course/video1) into the "player.swf".For example a page i'm working on plays a video called 301_welding.flv. Looking at the source code of the generated page, i see that the object that has the flashplayer:
Right now it calls the video locally and sets its properties ( file=301_welding.flv&enablejs=true&usefullscreen=true&width= 491&height=364&autostart=true&)how would i go about getting lectora to use that RTMP stream in the player.swf?Thank you for your time guys.
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