Are there any Flash video players, free for commercial use, that are able to playback AVI files? JW Player is out of the question because in the readme it states that use by a corporation is considered commercial use and needs a different license.
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Well, Flash does not natively handle the AVI container format. It can only play back the two forms of FLVs (Soresen Spark and ON2 v6) and h264 video in a few different containers (MP4, MOV) that conform to some specific requirements.
As far as I know, no one has ported AVI reading code to ActionScript. Technically it should be possible, but there's a good chance Flash simply wouldn't be fast to handle video of any real quality.
You can transcode AVIs to formats that Flash can playback using a variety of tools including ffmpeg.
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Seems like I'm the only one who knows about this: http://flowplayer.org/
It's free for commercial use (GPL 3), has a ton of features including the ability to splice in commercials.
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Strobe Media Playback. Bsd license. Directly from adobe. .... docs suck at this point though.... player is pretty good though... http://sourceforge.net/adobe/smp/wiki/Home/
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Check the JQuery Media Plugin
The jQuery Media Plugin supports unobtrusive conversion of standard markup into rich media content. It can be used to embed virtually any media type, including Flash, Quicktime, Windows Media Player, Real Player, MP3, Silverlight, PDF and more, into a web page. The plugin converts an element (usually an ) into a which holds the object, embed or iframe tags neccessary to render the media content.
