Does anyone know of a half decent stand-alone flash video player where the user does not need to compile the video into a FLV file?

I'm working on a video upload system and many of the users of the system are not tech savvy, so asking them to convert to FLV is not an option.

I'm willing to sink a little cash into a player since it is for a commercial project. Do any of you know of one and can recommend where I can code it into my project that wont require a user to go through all kinds of conversions to upload a video.

No, this project is not a youtube clone.

I've googled and got garbage, or a bunch that requires the user to manually convert. :(

Thanks. :)

Check out flow player http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net/

Yes you do need to convert videos to flv, but that is nothing that cannot be scripted so it runs on server side.

Thanks for the link sasha.

I understand that videos need to be FLV files, but having to train people who are not computer savvy (some can barely email attachments) to convert a video to FLV isnt going to go well. ;) The site is going to be "idiot friendly" so it seems that getting "ffmpeg" on the server is the way to go. Hopefully, my host will allow this to be compiled on the server if it isnt on there already.

Going to have to hold off till later to get all this on my development server.

Thanks again. :)

try wimpyplayer.com i'm usin it. (cool)

Another vote for Wimpy....love it

I would recommend http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_video_Player

Thanks for the link sasha.
I understand that videos need to be FLV files, but having to train people who are not computer savvy (some can barely email attachments) to convert a video to FLV isnt going to go well.

Convert the video to FLV server side once the user has uploaded the .avi or what ever.

Far as the user can see they unload a file and a few mins later (depending on your hardware) the vid is playing...

This might not be what your looking for but if you are looking for a GUI based app to convert video to flv then try Riva:

http://www.rivavx.com/?encoder

Very easy to use and its free. I used it to convert football highlight videos:

http://www.azfl.com/league/rams/tempe_rams_video_highlight.php?vid=53

Silly