Build Your Player
Flowplayer changes the way you get videos up and running on your website. You'll have a customized video player on a global streaming network within minutes.
Choose a preset
Setup comes with 12 professional presets to get you started. They each have a different story to tell, and you are encouraged to borrow ideas from them.
Give it a look all your own
With access to all the visual nuts and bolts, your skinning possibilities are endless. Just don't go overboard! Great-looking skins are subtle. Take advantage of the opacity slider and gradient options on the color picker.
Autohiding, language and more
You are in control of more than just styling. You can adjust the autohiding details or localize the player to your language. The controlbar can be sized and positioned in unusual places. You can also preview your work in a separate browser window.
Play your own video
Your original video file can be in any format, and located on your local hard disk or on a web server. Setup takes care of the file conversion to a web-friendly format.
Do it like the Big Guys
You're getting professional now. The player will be placed on top of a global video streaming network, and you can choose from two of the industry-leading protocols. In other words: your audience can enjoy a constant video stream everywhere in the world.
Make it truly yours
Our Commercial License allows you to replace the Flowplayer trademark with your own logo. Setup automatically builds the logo and the product key inside your player.
Note to Unlimited license customers: Players generated by Setup currently cannot feature an Unlimited license.
Try it out
After Setup, you have a customized player with everything built in: your logo, configuration and play button. It's a single file that loads quickly.
Playlists, Analytics, Sharing.
Flowplayer is a mature and flexible player with many features. You can configure your custom player further to override the settings that are built into the player. View samples that use your custom player and get more ideas from our demo area.
Modify it or create a new one
You can create new setups any time and they will all appear in your account. Commercial License owners can create an unlimited amount of players and edit existing ones.
Going to production
Your Setup already works on a global streaming network. You can start using it on a production site by clicking on the Activate button. Before that you can try the CDN only under flowplayer.org.
Global streaming at your fingertips
Global video streaming is not just for the Big Guys anymore. Flowplayer Setup brings it to us all.
Competitive pricing
Flowplayer has a direct link to a CDN called HDDN (High Definition Delivery Network). Unlike other networks, it is not rented and has direct reach in 90+ countries. HDDN uses the latest streaming servers (Wowza 2.0 and lighttpd) to take care of hosting for demanding sites such as mozilla.com.
Zero setup
When you sign up on HDDN, your Setup becomes automatically ready for production -- no need to read thick manuals. Of course, you can install Flowplayer on your own streaming server, but that's a totally different story.
Global reach
Your video files will be served by thousands of servers globally. A user anywhere in the world will load your video from the closest possible server, and will enjoy a consistent and smooth viewing experience. This global reach would be impossible to achieve by yourself.
Not just for videos
CDN (Content Delivery Networks) are a trendy topic right now. People want their pages to load faster and faster, and CDNs are an important piece of the puzzle. Beyond video, you also want your images, CSS and JavaScript files to be served globally.
Where's my video?
Most probably on your hard disk. To distribute it globally, you simply drop it into another folder.
Save nerves, time and money
Your videos are typically MPG, AVI, MOV or WMV files, but web files must be in FLV or H.264 format. A conversion is needed. You can use tools such as ffmpeg for the conversion, but it's complex and time-consuming. Instead, Flowplayer Setup is integrated with encoding.com. We leave the dirty work to the specialists.
Encode your files directly to HDDN
Once you have an encoding.com account, you can simply drop your video files into a special folder and they will be automatically converted and placed on the HDDN network. You can then instantly play your video with your pimped player.
20 cents / video file
encoding.com pricing is based on file sizes. A gigabyte of video transformation costs $2.00, so a 100 MB file will cost you 20 cents. Cheap, and no work on your part!