Please tell us the development on this block. I would appreciate to have it when it will be compatible with the last version of C5.

Thanks Barddevey.

I'm beginning work on this project now, and I will update this thread with progress notes.

Initial Features:
-Support for FLV and some MP4 video
-Support for MP3 audio
-External playlists with 3 custom templates
-Splash images for audio files
-Basic Player skinning
-Custom config fields

Eventually, I hope to support all the features of Flowplayer. Please comment here if there are specific features you would like to see!

I think the most important thing is for it to be able to do two things:-

1. Not autostart any video when the page opens, but have the viewer or user make the video play.

2. Allow multiple instances of a video block on a page.

Update:

So far, I have written 2 Flowplayer blocks to beta quality, with a 3rd in alpha. There's a 4th block that's just an idea at the moment.

They are:

1) Flowplayer Video: support for one video file per player, autoplay, autobuffering, and Flowplayer's "aspect-adjusting" height and width settings.

2) Flowplayer MP3: support for one mp3 file per player, autoplay, autobuffering, and Flowplayer's music-box layout.

3) Flowplayer Advanced: full playlist support, autoplay, autobuffering, custom templates for top, bottom, right and left playlist positions, cover-art images for mp3s, custom configuration inputs, and any other Flowplayer features I can include.

4) Flowplayer Business: as Advanced, including support for Flowplayer's Business Products and probably a lot more.

I plan to release the basic Video and MP3 players for free, with GPL3 support a strong possibility. I might include some custom config support in there as well.

I plan to release the Advanced and Business blocks for prices not yet determined.

Suggestions on pricing are more than welcome.

Cheers,
Brad Dewey

What about the 1PixelOut audio player?

It's a great player, it have all the essentials, it's small and extend just by a click. It's the most used by the web community and it's free; WordPress used it as a plugin and it got the source fla file.

It would be awesome that you offer this skin in your standalone package; many WordPress users would probably go with C5 CMS because of that plugin made by you.

See by yourself:
http://wpaudioplayer.com/whatsnew...

Source .fla file:
http://wpaudioplayer.com/source...

=> see the attached files

Thanks.

Hey Brad,

Since the free versions of Flowplayer are licensed under the GPL license, I think it would be a violation of licensing to charge for a Flowplayer block. One could argue that a buyer is paying for the PHP code surrounding the player, but I think that Flowplayer is the real reason why someone would want to purchase it. If someone had a movie that they were sharing for free, and I charged people to see the movie, I could argue that I'm "actually" charging for the special red carpet, but the real motivation for someone paying me is based on the free product, licensed so that it can always remain free.

I don't know how this would factor into a Flowplayer Business block, as the license is different, I'm sure you could use it as you want so long as they receive the license fees.

yes, this is correct.

Even if a customer would only pay for the php code around the video player, you wouldn't be allowed to release the block including the flow player.

You could however release the php code without the flash and add a some instructions to manually download and integrate the flash player into your block. Not really user friendly though.

sorry for the delay. I never got an email about your post and I just saw it now. you make an excellent point.

I wonder though, if the gpl'd versions are available from a CDN, could I just include links instead of the actual gpl'd work? Would that even allow me to charge a small fee for the work I've done, or is that still considered a gpl violation?

thanks for the heads up

hi, i was wanting to program a flowplayer block as well and saw this post, wondering if you'd made any advances? i'm really looking for the playlist function for audio right this second .. would be down to contribute on the project .. let me know!

This project was put on hold temporarily but was reawakened last week. I'm almost done with a mixed-media playlist version and should have it out soon. I might need some help beta testing though.

It looks like this conversation has been dormant since February. Any chance you've made any progress with the Flowplayer video block?