Available Plugins

  1. Age Gate
  2. Audiodescription
  3. Autostarter
  4. Captions
  5. Clickproxy
  6. HD
  7. Infobox
  8. Livestream
  9. Logobox
  10. Metaviewer
  11. Qualitymonitor
  12. Revolt
  13. Searchbar
  14. Sharing
  15. Snapshot

Info Box plugin

This plugin displays an area with the title, description, source and date added of a video printed. Metadata is pulled from the player's playlist or flashvars. The infobox can be on top of the video or outside the video space (top or bottom). If set, the backcolor, frontcolor and lightcolor flashvars are used.

This plugin is compatible with version 4.4 of the player. Note that a small bug in the RSS parsing of the player renders the date property undefined for 4.4 / 4.5 players when using an RSS playlist.

Examples

Here is an example of the Info Box plugin in action.

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

file=mrss.xml&plugins=infobox

Here is another example that uses different colors and displays the infobox on top of the video:

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

file=mrss.xml&backcolor=000000&frontcolor=cccccc&lightcolor=cc0000&plugins=infobox&infobox.position=over

Configuration

The plugin is loaded with the flashvar plugins=infobox. This will automatically load the latest version of the plugin straight off our servers. It offers three flashvars to tweak the positioning:

  • infobox.color (undefined): color of the texts in the infobox. Use this to override the frontcolor of the player. Must be a HEX color value.
  • infobox.position (undefined): position of the box in the player. Can be bottom, over or top. When set to over, the box is shown above the video and hidden when the video plays.
  • infobox.size (85): height of the info box. Increase the size of the box if the description doesn't fit. The default, 85, is good for 2 lines of description.

Again note that the infobox plugin uses the backcolor, frontcolor and lightcolor flashvars of the player when set. The second example higher on this page demonstrates this.

Source code

The source code of this plugin can be obtained in a zip (click the zip links at the bottom) or through Subversion: 

svn co http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/plugins/livestream

If you don't have a Subversion client, check out Tortoise (Windows) or SC Plugin (MAC).

You don't need Adobe Flash to modify this plugin. Instead, you can edit the plugin with any text editor you like. The plugin can be compiled with the free, cross-platform MXMLC compiler. See our plugin compiling overview for more info.