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How to customize a flash video player in a simple way

Higosoft web player is a professional flv player creator for creating web videos with an embedded player which can be placed directly into the webpage.

Higosoft web player offers powerful options to you ,for example, by Advertisement, you can easily add your own advertisements inside and over flash videos at any time point for earning cash , with Higosoft Web Player, it offers various skins of flash video player for choosing to match website style , you can add watermark and logo for output vides and choose your favorite preload, what is more important, it can make your flash video player more personalized by editing playlist.

Here I will introduce a way to customize web flv player with full-screen capability. it will be accomplished with just a few mouse clicks.

Guidance: how to customize web player template

Step 1: Run Higosoft Web Player and click "Media->Add" button to import source flv videos.

Click "Add" button to load flv videos that you want to place into the webpage, you can add as many videos as you like at one time to save your time.

Step 2: Click "Advertisement" to add all kinds of ads into and over the added videos(optional)

There are two different modes "Insert" and "Overlay" for adding advertisements into/over the added videos, for the difference, please visit here . By adding ads over video, the video publisher could get some earnings form their published videos.

Step 3:Click "Template" to choose appropriate web player skin for your output videos.

Higosoft Web Player is preset with abundant web player templates, you could choose one from them, and along with the upgrade of Higosoft Web Player, more and more web player template will be added to this program. Besides, Higosoft allow you to further customize your web player template by modifying some parameters.

Step 4: Click "Template->Options" to customize your web player template by setting various control parameters.

In this panel, you could see a lot of parameters of controlling web player template. By setting this parameters, you could control and customize your own individualized flash video player. All controlling parameter are classified into 5 categories like "List and componet", "Skin setting", "Playback setting", "Big play button", "Replay setting". under each category, there are many customization options for you to set flash video player appearance.

If you want to remove video playlist thumbnail, you can choose "None" for "Video list style" option.

In the playback setting, check "Auto choose next" in order that the player can play next video automatically.

Check "Auto rewind", then all videos in the playlist will be automatically replayed as loop.

Step 5: Click "Publish" to export your videos and publish to personal website or blog.

There are two kinds of publishing modes, one is "Embed" mode, the other is "Out File". 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.

About how to embed the output videos to personal website and blog, please visit how to embed web video player to website.

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Comparison of three different versions of Higosoft Web Player.