How can I have controls in flash players used to p

Question

How can I add play, pause, stop, full-screen buttons, volume bar and progress bar in embed tag? I actually wanted to play a '.swf' file in my web page but all it comes is with out any controls.

If there are way with JavaScript or jQuery then please let me know about them.

I have tried using the pluginobject but I want to apply a skin to it. Can anyone reference to anykind of such things?

So, I want some of you to help me solve my problem.

Answer 1

You will need to add something like the FLVPlayback added to the source flv. When you republish the flash it will have playback controls on.

Or you could program your own control in using stop() and start() etc.

If you wanted to use a jQuery approach you can use jQuery SWFObject. This will embed the swf and give you a options to control some aspects of the swf. Although additional changes to the source maybe required.

You can find examples here http://jquery.thewikies.com/swfobject/examples

Answer 2

Let me see if i got this right.. so you're trying to use a html5 video element to play a swf? that doesn't make any sense to me.

here's how a standard HTML5 video tag should look

<video id="myvideo" width="320" height="240" controls>
  <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

here's how you control it by using JS

<script type="text/javascript">
 var v = document.getElementsByTagName("video")[0];
v.play();
</script>

other resources: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/video/basics/

IF you mean having the default player controls on a flash video player...

then it's just a question of preloading a default skin to it inside flash. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/as3/components/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9c65b32-7f12.html