How to Record With Flowplayer

Record video clips via Flowplayer or other open source recording software.

Flowplayer is an Open source video player for the web. You can use it to embed video streams into your web pages. It is designed for web developers, website owners and businesses. It is free to be downloaded and used on your website but if you want to use your own logo, you have to purchase a commercial license. You can even build your own video player with this software to stream your video on your website. Flowplayer is a player, not a recorder, so if you want to record with it, you need to add the recording code to the source code.

Things You'll Need

• AS script

Instructions

1. Download the source code for the free software. Unzip the source code and find BuiltinCofig.as file. Double-click to open the file.

2. Add the following code to enable Flowplayer to start recording:
   onStart: function(clip) {
   pageTracker._trackEvent("Videos", "Play", yourvideoclip);
   },
   Replace yourvideoclip with your actual video URL address.

3. Add pause event for this video clip. Time (in seconds) is also obtained:
   onPause: function(clip) {
   pageTracker._trackEvent("Videos", "Pause", yourvideoclip, parseInt(this.getTime()));
   },

4. Add stop event for this clip. Time is also tracked:
   onStop: function(clip) {
   pageTracker._trackEvent("Videos", "Stop", yourvideoclip, parseInt(this.getTime()));
   },

5. Add finish event for this clip:
   onFinish: function(clip) {
   pageTracker._trackEvent("Videos", "Finish", yourvideoclip);
   }
   Save the file.

References

• Flowplayer.org: Introducing Flowplayer 3.2

Resources

• Flowplayer.org: Download