What's it take to show FLV files?

I'm fairly far out of the Flash loop.
We'd like to start hosting FLV files on our site. These are
being produced
by external vendors.
Once I get the FLV file, what would I need to do to add it to
our site. I
assume I'd need some sort of flash based FLV player.
Would I need to manually set up each FLV file in a SWF
manually in Flash? Or
is there a standalond Flash component (SWF) that could be
configured on the
server movie-by-movie to eliminate the need for setting each
one up in
Flash.
The issue is that we're going to be getting more and more FLV
files with
more and more employees wanting them posted on their
individual pages and we
don't want to be burdened with having to create a custom SWF
for each and
every video if at all possible.
-Darrel

Darrel,
I'm sure there are components out there but I've always
created my own or
created them for my clients. I've done this a couple ways:
dump all the flv
files in a folder on the server and do a dir read with a
server side script
and out put in an xml format that flash can read. Or, have a
db with the
info to the path to the flvs, then do the same xml format for
flash to use.
As for the flash file itself, you could do this any number of
ways once you
have the flv files' information.
dan
"darrel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> I'm fairly far out of the Flash loop.
>
> We'd like to start hosting FLV files on our site. These
are being produced
> by external vendors.
>
> Once I get the FLV file, what would I need to do to add
it to our site. I
> assume I'd need some sort of flash based FLV player.
>
> Would I need to manually set up each FLV file in a SWF
manually in Flash?
> Or is there a standalond Flash component (SWF) that
could be configured on
> the server movie-by-movie to eliminate the need for
setting each one up in
> Flash.
>
> The issue is that we're going to be getting more and
more FLV files with
> more and more employees wanting them posted on their
individual pages and
> we don't want to be burdened with having to create a
custom SWF for each
> and every video if at all possible.
>
> -Darrel
>

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Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 01:25:24 -0700
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