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Videocasting with JW's player

Posted by Stan Bogdanov on 13 December 2008 - 23:23
Last updated 21 December 2009 - 09:23

Video podcast (sometimes shortened to vidcast) is the delivery of video via Atom or RSS.
JW's player is the perfect option to show multiple flash.flv videos with thumbnails through a playlist.xml.

Isihia 2001

(Bulgarian: Исихия, "hesychia") are a Bulgarian music band founded in 2000, the style of which unites elements of Bulgarian folklore and Hesychast Christian chant of the 14th century to create an atmosphere of Balkan spiritual mysticism. Many of the group's songs cover topics of the medieval history of Bulgaria, mostly the period of the Ottoman invasion of the Balkans and the attempts on its repulsion and the early Ottoman rule of Bulgaria, i.e. the 14th-15th century, but also other moments of hardship such as the tragic Battle of Klyuch, "key" (also Kleidion, Clidium) on July 29, 1014.

Enjoy some music from one of their albums.

Get the Flash Player to see this movie.

The code

<div id="player1">
<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
   Get the Flash Player</a> to see this movie.</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
  var s0 = new SWFObject("assets/flash/flvplayer.swf",
   "assets/flash/Isihia_2001_playlist.xml","400","420","9.0.0");
  s0.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
  s0.addVariable("file","assets/flash/Isihia_2001_playlist.xml");
  s0.addVariable('displayheight','280');
  s0.addVariable("width","400");
  s0.addVariable("height","420");
  s0.addVariable('thumbsinplaylist','true');
  s0.addVariable('shuffle','false');
  s0.addVariable("backcolor","0x111111");
  s0.addVariable("frontcolor","0xdddddd");
  s0.addVariable("lightcolor","0x99cc00");
  s0.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
  s0.write("player1");
</script>

The XML playlist file

The playlist.xml file looks like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<playlist version="1" xmlns="http://xspf.org/ns/0/">
  <title>Isihia 2001</title>
  <info>http://www.isihia.newobjects.com/</info>
  <annotation>http://www.ewbooks.info/hotpot</annotation>
   <trackList>
    <track>
     <title>Preobrazhenie (Transfiguration)</title>
      <creator>Isihia 2001</creator>
      <location>http://www.full.url/folder/file.flv</location>
       <info>http://www.isihia.newobjects.com/</info>
       <image>http://www.full.url/folder/thumbnail_image.gif</image>
    </track>
  </trackList>
</playlist>