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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Play FLV files in Windows Media Player Tutorial

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Video Blog Post Generator

Enter the url, width, and height of your movie. Then press the "Get Post" button and your video post code will be generated in the text area below. This should be used with Flix Pro

URL: Width: Height:

*NOTE* The ' character will be replaced with the ` character.

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Flash 8 Detection Code

<!--***************************************************************--> <!--** **--> <!--** Flash 8 Detection code **--> <!--** **--> <!--***************************************************************--> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // Globals // Major version of Flash required var requiredMajorVersion = 8; // Minor version of Flash required var requiredMinorVersion = 0; // Minor version of Flash required var requiredRevision = 0; // the version of javascript supported var jsVersion = 1.0; // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- // --> </script> <script language="VBScript" type="text/vbscript"> <!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information Function VBGetSwfVer(i) on error resume next Dim swControl, swVersion swVersion = 0 set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i)) if (IsObject(swControl)) then swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version") end if VBGetSwfVer = swVersion End Function // --> </script> <script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript"> <!-- // Detect Client Browser type var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false; var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf("win") != -1) ? true : false; var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") != -1) ? true : false; jsVersion = 1.1; // JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information function JSGetSwfVer(i){ // NS/Opera version >= 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length > 0) { if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] || navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) { var swVer2 = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? " 2.0" : ""; var flashDescription = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash" + swVer2].description; descArray = flashDescription.split(" "); tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split("."); versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0]; versionMinor = tempArrayMajor[1]; if ( descArray[3] != "" ) { tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split("r"); } else { tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split("r"); } versionRevision = tempArrayMinor[1] > 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1] : 0; flashVer = versionMajor + "." + versionMinor + "." + versionRevision; } else { flashVer = -1; } } // MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4 else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.6") != -1) flashVer = 4; // WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3 else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.5") != -1) flashVer = 3; // older WebTV supports Flash 2 else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv") != -1) flashVer = 2; // Can't detect in all other cases else { flashVer = -1; } return flashVer; } // When called with reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision returns true if that version or greater is available function DetectFlashVer(reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision) { reqVer = parseFloat(reqMajorVer + "." + reqRevision); // loop backwards through the versions until we find the newest version for (i=25;i>0;i--) { if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) { versionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i); } else { versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i); } if (versionStr == -1 ) { return false; } else if (versionStr != 0) { if(isIE && isWin && !isOpera) { tempArray = versionStr.split(" "); tempString = tempArray[1]; versionArray = tempString .split(","); } else { versionArray = versionStr.split("."); } versionMajor = versionArray[0]; versionMinor = versionArray[1]; versionRevision = versionArray[2]; versionString = versionMajor + "." + versionRevision; // 7.0r24 == 7.24 versionNum = parseFloat(versionString); // is the major.revision >= requested major.revision AND the minor version >= requested minor if ( (versionMajor > reqMajorVer) && (versionNum >= reqVer) ) { return true; } else { return ((versionNum >= reqVer && versionMinor >= reqMinorVer) ? true : false ); } } } } // --> </script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- // Version check based upon the values entered above in "Globals" function BlogPostFlashDetect(post) { var hasReqestedVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision); // Check to see if the version meets the requirements for playback if (hasReqestedVersion) { // if we've detected an acceptable version document.write(post); // embed the Flash Content SWF when all tests are passed } else { // flash is too old or we can't detect the plugin var alternateContent = 'Alternate HTML content should be placed here. ' + 'This page content requires the free Adobe Flash Player 8. ' + '<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash Player 8</a>'; document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content } } // --> </script> <!--***************************************************************--> <!--** **--> <!--** Flash 8 Detection code **--> <!--** **--> <!--***************************************************************-->

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<$BlogItemBody$> replace code

<script type="text/javascript"><!-- var blogbodystr = '<$BlogItemBody$>'; blogbodystr.replace("'","`"); BlogPostFlashDetect(blogbodystr); //--></script> <noscript> This video blog post requires the Macromedia Flash Player in order to view the video.<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Get Flash</a> </noscript>

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