add preroll functionality

[jeroen]

I've been recently working with your wonderful player, and I'm really enjoying what it can do.

However i've searched long and hard, and have not been able to find a solution for what i'm trying to accomplish.

The closest forum post i've seen about it, you directed the post author to contact you directly for more info, so I figured i'd do the same..

Basically, I'm creating a video player for a company, and will be including multiple videos in a playlist. the player is going to be a seperate window that spawns from their main intranet website.

I am looking to try to have a "preroll" per-say, in which, when the player first starts, the company's logo animation (10 seconds) displays, welcoming the user to the player.. then starts on with the first video in the playlist.

I want to treat this similarly to the <creator>commercial</creator> tag that can be used in the playlist, however I need to also have it not selectable, or visible in my playlist at all..

basically i want it built into the player, where it's the first thing you see, but only when the player is first instanced.. not before every video in the playlist or anything like that..

Is there something I can do that is similar to a pre-roll or a commercial, that would allow me to have this option, without the user seeing the selection of the logo animation in the playlist?

[jeroen]

Adding a controlbar-block feature (on playlist level) might be more interesting!

[jeroen]

One might also want to add stuff such as audio/captions in the playlist this way.

Or the streamer flashvar, different for each entry.

Perhaps there's a good way to generalize this?

[jeroen]

This should be done through a custom plugin. It's no good to abuse playlists for commercial insertion.

A plugin that allows one to place multiple 'rolls' inside one video (like Hulu.com) will be more flexible.