Flowplayer / Introduction

Flowplayer - Free video player for web

FlowPlayer is a Flash media player. You can use it on your HTML pages to play video files. "It is your personal YouTube".

Support for multiple media: video: FLV, H.264 coded MP4
image: JPG and PNG
audio: MP3

Other formats such as mpg, mov, avi and wmv are also supported but they must first be converted to FLV, or to a H.264 encoding. H.264 offers the best video quality in smallest filesize.
Flexible configuration: FlowPlayer has tons of configuration options. You can immediately start with the defaults and start tweaking with the options.
Full screen mode: Hardware accelerated full-screen mode without maximized browser windows. You can also make you own in-window fullscreens with scripting if you like. It leverages DirectX on Windows and OpenGL on OSX. Faster and smoother.
Progressive download: The simplest way to provide Flash video to your users. This is how YouTube does it.

Playlists: Control several videos in one player instance. Or combine multiple videos as one stream with the help of a streaming server. You can also include images in playlists or you can build playlist with HTML - see example.
Streaming: FlowPlayer supports streaming servers like the Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5, allowing random seeking to arbitrary positions in the video timeline.
Scripting API: Control the player with JavaScript and from other Flash movies.
Thumbnails: Provide quick access to specific chapters in a long lasting movie.
Protection against hotlinking: Protection against hotlinking or direct linking of video and image files.