How to configure JW Player to stream FLV or MP4 video

November 18th, 2008

Note: for GravityLab Multimedia customers, this method only applies to our Live Broadcasting packages. Pseudo-streaming is available with all standard on-demand video hosting accounts, and does not require rtmp configuration.

  1. Download the free JW Player from www.jeroenwijering.com and unzip the file somewhere on your computer
  2. Open the newly created directory, you should see several files. Upload the following files to your web server, or to your GravityLab home directory.
    • readme.html
    • swfobject.js
    • player.swf
  3. Open readme.html in your favorite HTML or text editor.
  4. Find the code that begins with <div id=”container”> and ends with </script>. This is the section of code you’ll need to edit and then copy and paste into your own page.