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flash AV Player - 2.1

Broadcasts MP3s, SWFs (audio/video) & JPEGs

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All Time: (3.5)
Version 2.1: (3.3)
Selected Version: 2.1
Release Date: 2003-09-20
License: Commercial
Downloads (version 2.1): 679
Downloads (all versions): 31,389
Price: Contributions

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Product Description:

Flash AV player is a skinable flash application that streams folders of MP3, SWF, & JPEG files by loading all necessary playlists data from an XML file. It is made to broadcast any media content: from an MP3 file to a Quicktime movie. It comes with 4 skins -- the Aquavideo player, the XXL player, the CD player and the Aqua player -- that can be embedded in a web page to play sound or movies on the Internet. It is compatible down to flash5 but movies must be exported as Flash 6 (also required to stream MP3s).

Features:
The Application:
  • Preloads and plays sound tracks (SWF or MP3), movie tracks embeded in a SWF file, and JPEG files.
  • Loading of playlists managed through an XML file.
  • Comments and background images/animations can be assigned to each track (SWF or JPEG).
  • Bufering time according to the size of the loaded track and the speed of the connection.
  • Auto resize of graphics.
  • Dynamic background: the background color and alpha properties of the player can be redefined when embeding the .swf
  • Flash 5 plugin detection.
  • Skinnable.
The Skins:
  • Playback controls: play, pause, stop, wind, rewind, next track, previous track.
  • Play mode options : Play all, loop track, repeat all, single track (pauses at the end of each track), random.
  • Auto play and Auto loop.
  • Volume control.
  • Dragable cursor following the time line.
  • Loading progress bar.
  • Tracks Information display (playlist name, track name, track total time).
  • Choice of 3 encodings (the player choose the default Kbps you specifie)
  • Instant Playlist browsing/switching with direct controls.
  • An URL link can be defined and displayed for each playlist.
  • Timer (old style or digital type - depends of the skin).
  • Virtual leds (analogic or digital - depends of the skin) tuned to the volume set level.

What's new in this version:

2.1
  • [Opt] Various code optimisations : all skins must be upgraded!
  • [Bug] Fixed miss-loading of the first "pub" in Media players.
  • [Bug] Fixed apostrophe problem in track's comments.
  • [Bug] offline parameter in the XML generator was not generated correctly.
  • [Bug] Fixed the Kbps switch (broken from version 2).
  • [Opt] Skins loading is faster.
  • [Chg] Limited versions to the 1st and 15th of each month.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.2
  • Mac OS X 10.1
  • Mac OS X 10.0
  • Mac OS Classic

Additional Requirements:

  • Any Web browser with Flash 5 plug-in or Flash 6 to read MP3s or videos

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Version 2.1:
Overall Rating: (3.3) Features: (3.7) Support: (2.3)
Ease of Use: (2.3) Quality / Stability: (3.7) Price: (3.7)
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flash AV Player ReviewSWEEEEEEEET!!! - Version: 2.1, 9/21/2003 07:18AM PST

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znapPe
Yes! It *IS* sweet!! I must admit, I had to turn a few stones, to get it going.
Using the supplied XML generator did me little good, so I edited it by hand, using an exsisting Playlist.xml file.
Mostly it was trial and error. I was only interrested in streaming a few of my Reason tracks, so I chose mid sized player. (It looks way better than the CD-Player.) Here's what I did:

I created a folder in my homepage, a chose to call it 'Stream'.
In that folder I uploaded the folowing files:
'_pfs.swf', 'av_aquaplayer.html', and 'av_aquaplayer.swf'.
I created a folder in 'Stream', and called it 'media'.
In that folder, I uploaded my mp3s, and the customized Playlist.xml. IMPORTANT! The Playlist.xml had to be named 'onlyAudio_playlist.xml' to work. I later found out why, but the easies right now is to just use the name 'onlyAudio_playlist.xml' as playlist.xml name for when choosing to use the av_aquaplayer.html/av_aquaplayer.swf skin. Then.. And now it gets trickey.. I tried, (again, trial and error,) copy/paste'n the bits and pieces that I needed from 'onlyAudio_playlist.xml''s entry (that was streamed with no problems, when I used 'onlyAudio_playlist.xml' unmodified,) instead of the entries I had made using the 'XML Generator'.

FYI, it was this entry:

<PLAYLIST name="MP3 Audio" author="FODOR" Tr_Folder="" defaultKbps="128Kbps" defaultFolder="" Xtension=".mp3" BGproperties="" offline="">
<URL Url="http://fodor.liane.net" Label="Flash AV Player Home" Target="_blank"/>
<KBPS Kbps_1="" Kbps_2="" Kbps_3=""/>
<TRACK name="Les longs solos d'amour" img="" Url="http://fodor.free.fr/flash_AV_players/AV_players_folder/media/mp3/Les_longs_solos_d'amour.mp3"/>
</PLAYLIST>

Off course I tried using the the developers URL first: (fodor.free.fr etc.)
And presto. After supplying the URLs to my own tracks, it worked.

So.. It's a bit of a hazzle to set up. At least first time. But after it's set up, it's pure bliss!!

I can only recommend this streaming solution. Free and beautyfull!
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flash AV Player ReviewGreat tipware ;-) - Version: 2.1, 9/20/2003 02:34PM PST

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Arpad
Very fine product!
And LOL... the author does say it is a tipware and that the price is contributions (just look on the right)... but I agree that the documentation might seems to be a bit poor for any one who don't read it :D
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flash AV Player ReviewLOL!!! THIS IS NOT FREEWARE!!! Bait and switch alert! - Version: 2.1, 9/20/2003 12:43PM PST

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tu11ym0n
i can only laugh. after many many hours i FINALLY got this thing to work (no thanks to the poor documentation) and a few days later I suddenly get this message saying "This version has expired since Sat Sep 20 2003, you can contribute for an unlimited version at..."

had i know this wasn't freeware i wouldn't have wasted all those countless hours trying to get this damn thing working.

the author should be ashamed.
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