swfembed

06 Nov

Using Flashy to Play Video inside Lightbox2

Posted by matt in drupal, flashy, javascript, lightbox, swfembed, swfembed.module

By default, the Drupal Lightbox2 module supports the flvPlayer flash movie player, which is not Open Source. However, Drupal has a 100% Open Source video player called Flashy. Here's a quick method of overriding Lightbox's setup to use Flashy instead of flvPlayer. Update: Fixed for Internet Explorer.

18 Mar

jQuery plugin and Drupal module for embedding Flash files

Posted by matt in drupal, javascript, jquery, php, swfembed, swfembed.module

Today, Palantir.net is releasing several module that we built as part of our client work. One of these modules is the SWF Embed module. With this module, developers can create tools that include flash objects.

This module makes use of both PHP code and JavaScript code in order to provide robust Flash integration used in projects like the Flashy Drupal video player. But from a developer's point of view, all you need to do to add Flash support is create an object and theme it. The SWF Embed handbook page describes this process in detail (not that there is a lot to describe).

But there is a hidden gem in there that may come in handy for your non-Drupal sites (if you believe in such a thing).