Just stunning videos with crystal clarity isnt enough to keep your website on top always.
Web FLV player designs are getting very innovative these days and site owners are using the best out of it. The same old way of embedding from YouTube isnt cool anymore. Time has come to have your own HD Flash player with your own logo.
One of the best HD Flash players I have come across is this one:
http://www.hdflvplayer.net/ It has all the essential features stuffed perfectly in it to improve the user experience. Before you buy a HD flash player for your website I would suggest you to have the following as a checklist and make sure you buy the best web FLV player:
- Having your brand logo (after all, you are paying only for it)
To support all kinds of formats that Flash Player supports including: MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, F4V).
- Pre-roll, post-roll and mid-roll ads
- FFMPEG (Very Important) Embedding
- Sorting videos Which lets you group related videos
- Native language support
- Multiple variety of skin colors and styles
- Facility to put 2 formats of the same video (HD and non HD)
- Sharing in social networking sites
- Adding videos from video sharing sites
- Full control on player to customize almost everything
- Enabling option to download video
Having a video gallery: Best Idea
Having an efficient web FLV player with all the above essential features in your site is one idea. But the latest trend is to have a dedicated video gallery in your site, almost like a mini YouTube. Customization is a vital criterion in the case of a video gallery too. One of the best Wordpress video gallery I found recently for the Wordpress CMS is the Contus Video Gallery: http://Wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contus-video-galleryversion-10/
The following are the musts that your Wordpress video gallery should have:
- Features to have quickly visible video categories such as Recent Videos, Popular Videos and Featured Videos and the facility to control number and order of these from back end.
- Most essential: FLV & H.264 encoded video including MP4, M4V, M4A, MOV, Mp4v, F4V
- Social networking comments from the gallery page (like for Facebook)
- Ability to alter width, height, skin, theme, aspect ratio, volume, downloads etc. from the backend.
- Multiple Playlists Option
- Attractive colors, themes, templates etc.
- Social Bookmarking (diggit, myspace, facebook, del.icio.us, spurl, furl, google)
- Views count for video
- Supported in the latest Wordpress 3.0.3
- And all the other regular and utile features we could see in leading video sharing scripts like You Tube
Hence with a fully loaded web FLV player and a convenient video gallery your site is sure to please visitors since it undoubtedly improves the user experience many folds.
