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Media player wizard

Using the Web CMS?

If you are using the Web CMS, see the instructions for adding streaming media to CMS pages

Use the wizard below to publish your audio or video onto any website. The wizard configures a media player which has been designed to be usable easily by the widest possible audience. See below for more information about the player. Also be aware of copyright and other legal issues.

1. View examples

• Video | Audio - basic player
• Video | Audio - using a poster image
• Video | Audio - using streaming
• Video - using captions

2. Configure the media player

• Media file *

  Web address of media file (eg http://www.york.ac.uk/abc/video.flv) or "dropbox_name/file_name" if using streaming (eg physics/video.flv).

• Streaming?
  No Yes

  To use streaming your file must be in a streaming dropbox

• Width

  Width of the player in pixels. Minimum is 320, default is 400.

• Height
  Height of the player display in pixels. Minimum is 180, default is 250. Enter 0 for audio clips.
• Poster image URL Web address of image to be shown before playback.
• Subtitles URL Web address of W3C Timed Text (.xml) file or SubRip (.srt) file containing subtitles. For more information contact the Web Office. Not applicable to audio clips.
• Embeddable? No Yes Adds an 'embed' button allowing users to easily embed the video into their own website or blog. Not applicable to audio clips.
• Branding? No Yes Adds a University of York logo and 'Terms of Use' link (always added if the player is used outside the "york.ac.uk" domain).

3. Preview

4. Publish

Copy and paste the code below to use this on a web page, blog, or anywhere else.

About the player

The player requires no more to run than is needed to view YouTube videos. Specifically, the player requires that the browser has Adobe Flash plugin version 9.0.0 or later, although playback of MPEG-4 (H.264/AAC) files require version 9.0.115 (shipped in late 2007). This version of Flash supported on Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox FF 2+, Safari 2.0+ and Opera 9.0+, on Windows, Macs and Linux, though performance may vary by platform.

The player supports the following encodings and formats:

• all variants of video, audio and metadata that can be stored in a Flash video file (.flv)
• H.264/HE-AAC encoded content stored in an MPEG-4 file (.f4v, .mp4, .m4a, .mov, .m4v, .mp4v, .3gp, and .3g2)
• MP3 encoded audio and metadata stored in an MP3 audio file (.mp3)

Accessibility

The player provides access to keyboard accessible controls for use by those with disabilities, by means of the red "Accessible controls" link beneath the player. It also supports use of captions supplied via the web in either SubRip or W3C Timed Text. Over time we hope to improve the usability of the player to make it possible to e.g. change the display size via the keyboard.

Usage tracking

The player uses Google Analytics to track usage, including pause and seek events.

Need help?

For help or more information contact the Web Office.