FlowPlayer.org - Flash Video for Your Website

If you want to jazz up your website with some streaming video but don’t’ really know much about the available players out there, you might want to start with FlowPlayer. FlowPlayer is a free Flash video player which models its technology off of YouTube’s progressive download system. You can anchor the player onto any HTML-formatted web page. The player boasts a variety of options ranging from basic default settings to more advanced streaming options (streaming multiple videos on the same feed, for example). For the skeptical user, FlowPlayer maintains a list of sites that currently use its player, so you can verify its legitimacy and capabilities. Both site registration and then download are free of charge.

“FlowPlayer is a free Flash video player. You can easily embed it into HTML pages to play FLV files. FlowPlayer supports progressive downloading and true streaming. It supports playlists and other advanced features”.

FlowPlayer could be a great point of departure for someone who doesn’t know much about streaming video. Its wide variety of controls adjust to the abilities of the new users and while still catering to the needs of the advanced web developer. The site’s Alexa ranking has skyrocket in the past month, so if the trend continues then FlowPlayer should soon be launched out of obscurity into the limelight.



FlowPlayer is currently working on a video advertising solution. This will make it easy for the FlowPlayer users to start earning money from their on-line video content. We are currently looking for advertisers that would be interested to advertise in this neetwork. More details here: http://flowplayer.org/node/236

How will FlowPlayer compete with competitor Wimpy? On a superficial level, the site's navigability leaves something to be desired in comparison. Will what FlowPlayer lacks in design be made up for in functionality?