Provide a method for Registered Flowplayer

[yahreen]

Hi, is there a way to provide a method where we can use a licensed version of Flowplayer so that the watermark is not visible on the Flash fallback?

[etianen]

Yes indeed! There's a pretty powerful set of customisations available to html5media that are currently undocumented. The settings you need to use are:

html5media.flowplayerSwf = "/path/to/flowplayer.swf"
html5media.flowplayerControlsSwf = "/path/to/flowplayer.controls.swf"

Just create a separate <script> tag underneath the html5media script, add these settings, and you're good to go.

[yahreen]

Will this also extend to setting flowplayer variables such as autobuffer?

autoPlay: false,
autoBuffering: true;

[etianen]

Yes, however, you can already specify those using the preload and autoplay attributes on the video tag itself.

[yahreen]

Hi,

I have preload set in the video tag, that works great. But setting the autoplay attribute on the video tag does not work for FlowPlayer. I verified using Charles Web Proxy that FlowPlayer does not start downloading the video file until the user presses "Play".

How could one go about setting autoBuffering for FlowPlayer?

[etianen]

Using the following code:

<video src="foo.mp4" autoplay preload></video>

...will result in autoplay and autobuffering working in both the native player and flowplayer. If you're experiencing differently then that's a bug.

In any case, you can completely control the flowplayer configuration with the following callback:

html5media.configureFlowplayer = function(tag, element, config) {
    return config;
}