Flash Player

Using a Custom Flash Player

You are not limited to use the flash player that is provided with Carma. To use a custom flash player you need to copy the files into the carma/site_scripts/ directory and set up any sym-links if your files are linked individually. After that is done you have to adjust the templates to use your player instead of ours. Most 3rd party players provide documentation in order to configure them. The only thing you will need for use is the URL to the flash file. If the flash player is being used on view_clip.php, you can simply use the {rebuild_link} template function:

{rebuild_link without="style" using="GET" encode=1 start=$smarty.server.HTTP_HOST}

To use a Flash player on a page that is not view_clip.php, such as index.php, your video source must be entered manualy. Most flash players will want the path url encoded. For more information about URL encoding, please see the Percent Encoding article on Wikipedia.

Some flash players may need the path to end in a .flv extension so it knows it is a flash file. If this is the case then add then to the end of the URL to view_clip.php

&ext=file.flv

This will assist in helping the flash player identifying the file as flash.