Operation Steps

Use Higosoft Web Player to publish videos online

With Higosoft Web Player, you could publish and display amazing videos online in a well-designed and elegant flash video player. When you come to publish the videos online, you have two kinds of publish mode to choose. One is “Embed” mode and the other is “Out File” mode. The difference between these two modes is that under “Out File” mode, the software will generate additional xml file named “medialist.xml”. It’s the playlist file. Everything about the playlist can be modified via this file. Thus you could have control over the video playlist and are able to add to other flv videos to the playlist after publishing.

Click the “Publish” button on “Publish” interface, Higosoft Web Player will publish a folder which includes some files about the custom flash video player, for embedding onto webpage.

Term interpretations:

There are three files which are very important in the published folder, they are dwplayer.swf, dwplayer.html and medialist.xml.The output folder structure is shown as follows:

dwplayer.swf: It’s the actual flash video player, which will show onto your webpage.

dwplayer.html:On where, you could view the results of your customized flash video player and could get the embed code of it (everything about the flash video player also can be modified via the embed code).

medialist.xml:It’s the playlist file. Everything about the playlist can be modified via this file.

Interpretations of the terms on “Publish” interface:

XML file:: It’s actually the playlist file. When the “Embed” option is check, Higosoft Web Player will publish your flash video player without separate playlist file. On the contrary, when the “Out File” option is checked, Higosoft Web Player will publish your flash video player with a separate playlist file.

Domain Name: : The domain name of your website, on which the published flash video player will show.

Publish Path: : Where your flash video player will reside on your computer, after published.

After you publish the web video player on local hard drive, you could embed the generated web video player on any website, as for the embedding method, please refer to here.