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

Metaviewer plugin

This plugin prints metadata and keyframe positions enclosed in videos in a textbox on screen, which is useful for debugging purposes. It works for MP3, FLV and MP4.

This plugin is compatible with version 4.1 of the player. Its positioning flashvars work since version 4.4.

Example

Here is an example of the Metaviewer plugin in action. Play the video to see the data:

Get the Flash Player to see this player.

file=/player/testing/files/bunny.flv&plugins=metaviewer

Configuration

The plugin is loaded with the flashvar plugins=metaviewer. This will automatically load the latest version of the plugin straight off our servers. It offers a string of flashvars for tweaking the plugin:

  • metaviewer.position (over): position of the plugin. Can be over, left, right, top or bottom.
  • metaviewer.size (100): when the plugin is set to display left or right, this defines the width of the area the plugin uses. When the plugin is positioned top or bottom, this defines the height of the area the plugin uses.

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/metaviewer

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.