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JustinSmall
03-14-2008, 12:04 PM
Hello, I'm not requesting to pay someone for this. Though if needed, then sure. I only say this as I don't want this thread moved to the design requests forum.

What I need: I need a SWF Player for my website. It needs to be able to play movies via MySQL Database.

So if my link was http://website.com/movies.php?mov_id=32

Then it would play the movie for ID :P

I don't want a simple one though, it must have a progress bar, so they can slide the circle back to go to a certain part of the movie. I basically want one like YouTube or something like that :)

Any ideas? Let me know, btw my budget is around $25.

clrockwell
03-14-2008, 01:04 PM
As long as you have the know-how to use them, there are plenty of free players.

You will need something like PHP to generate the url that calls the movie. By 'Play movies from MySql Database', do you mean you are storing the url to the movies in the database, because you would not want to store the movie in there?

This turns up a few:
http://www.google.com/search?q=swf+player

Since I have never used them, someone else may be able to recommend a preferred one, but at a glance, none seem too difficult.

Hope this helps

AmyWilliams
03-14-2008, 03:28 PM
Are the movies stored in the MySQL database, or is only their location stored in the MySQL database?

JustinSmall
03-14-2008, 04:41 PM
Yeah my database will be setup like this

id
title
descrition
url - so it would be like blackops.swf

and it will play it like that. I don't have much flash knowledge... so

XennaStudios
03-15-2008, 07:09 AM
search it, there are plenty of Professional SWF players, just check first you have ffmpeg on your server, sometimes the players requires that!

JustinSmall
03-15-2008, 04:42 PM
I have done searches for it...

I have not been able to locate a MySQL/Flash SWF web player.

That's why I asked on here :(

I'm so sad :(

Panopta
03-15-2008, 05:30 PM
The flash player shouldn't really need to know anything about your MySQL database - it just needs to know the URL of where to grab the video stream. You'll need some sort of PHP or other script to generate the proper HTML that embeds the player, but that shouldn't be too hard to put together.

There are a number of good open source players, check out flowplayer.org or do a search on Freshmeat.net for others.