ASP.NET JW FLV Flash Video Player Control

ASP.NET JW FLV Flash Video Player Control is FREE custom ASP.NET Control that enables ASP.NET Web application to manipulate and show Flash video files on web page by using server side ASP.NET code. Since Flash is client side technology, this control uses JW FLV Player on client side.

JW FLV Player

Download ASP.NET JW FLV Flash Video Player Control

You can download this control compiled for ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5. Source Code is also available in Visual Basic .Net and C# programming languages.

How to use ASP.NET JW FLV Flash Video Player Control

To use control, unzip downloaded package and add reference in your web project to JW-FLV-Player-Control.dll. After that, place the control to the web form. On the web form control is not rendered correctly. It looks like in image bellow.

FLV player on web form at design time

Next step is to set values of properties. Required properties are:
 - File : URL to .flv video file
 - FlashPlayerLocation : URL to player.swf file
 - Swfobject_jsLocation : URL to swfobject.js javascriptfile

Other properties will take its default values when control is initialized. You can change it if your web application requires.

Now you can start your web application and enjoy a Flash movie in your ASP.NET web application.

Control at run time

When to use this control

Flash video is widely used by video sharing web sites. All large video sharing web sites, including YouTube or Google Video uses .flv because it is compatible with almost every web browser and operating system. Users must have Flash Player installed, but most of your visitors probably already have it.

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