01. Flowplayer

Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the Web. Use it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and serious programmers. Using Flowplayer, You can build your own looking player and place it on your site to stream your video from a global network.

Features:

• It’s totally free and open source
• You can build your player in minutes
• Smooth as silk — It’s optimized to oprate the overall behaviour of the player to “hide” curvy edges and blocking behaviour. Timeline animates fluently and there are two different autohiding modes: ”fade” and ”slide”.
• Stream from anywhere — Use industry standard streaming protocols RTMP or HTTP with most common web servers lighttpd, Apache, nginx or IIS or stream your videos from well known Content delivery networks Akamai, Amazon Cloudfront, Highwinds, HDDN, SimpleCDN and more
• Extend with web starndards — Flowplayer is build with Flash technology which ensures that 98% of all Internet users can see your videos. Also there is an unique JavaScript API changes the way you communicate with Flash.

How to install:

There is a detailed installation guide available on how to build your video player.

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02. Video LightBox

Video LightBox JS is a free wizard program that helps you easily embed video to website, web page or blog, in a few clicks without writing a single line of code.

Video LightBox is FREE for non-commercial use. A license fee is required for use on a commercial website. Video LightBox Business Edition additionally provides an option to remove the VideoLightBox.com credit line as well as a feature to put your own watermark to videos.

Features:

• Embed flv, mp4, 3gp video files
• Add Youtube, Facebook, Google Video, Metacafe, Vimeo, MySpace videos
• Mac & Windows versions
• XHTML compliant
• Automatic thumbnail creation
• Adding caption
• A lot of gorgeous gallery themes
• Built-in FTP

How to install:

There is a detailed installation guide provided by Video LightBox team on their website.

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03. JW Player

The JW Player is handy and flexible flash video player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, H.264, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports various streaming and playlist formats (including RMTP, HTTP, live streaming and more), a wide range of flashvar settings and an extensive JavaScript API.

Features:

• Change the JW Player’s look & feel to match your site. Design your own or check out JW Player’s custom skin library.
• The JW Player works out-of-the-box with Wowza’s token system so you can keep grubby mitts off your videos.
• Good Plugins System — With plugins, your player can do anything. You can build your own with the Developer SDK and resources or browse our Plugins to pick up Analytics, Viral, Adtonomy, Rate It, and much more.
• Hassle-free video management

How to install:

This guide will tell you how to Install the JW Player for Flash v5. First, Download the installation ZIP from web, which contains everything you need to get started.

STEP 1: Upload Player Files to Website — Transfer the player.swf, yt.swf and swfobject.js file from the ZIP to your website. Make sure that you’ve also uploaded all the necessary videos, songs and/or images to your site.

STEP 2: Embed Player Code into HTML — Embed the player in your HTML page with the lines of code below. Note: If you place the files in different directories, make sure to set the references in this code accordingly.

<p id='preview'>The player will show in this paragraph</p> <script type='text/javascript' src='swfobject.js'></script> <script type='text/javascript'> var s1 = new SWFObject('player.swf','player','400','300','9'); s1.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); s1.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always'); s1.addParam('flashvars','file=video.flv'); s1.write('preview'); </script> 

Notice the flashvars parameter above can contain a list of variables for configuring the player to use different Plugins or Skins. To quickly set up FlashVars, use the setup wizard. Simply choose an example, select the variables you want to use and paste the code onto your page. It’s that easy.

There is a detailed installation guides available on how to setup video player on your site.

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04. GDD FLVPlayer

GDD FLVPlayer is a web-based freeware to play FLV/mp4 (MPEG-4 encoded video file for Flash) files. With GDD FLVPlayer, you can easily play your FLV/mp4 videos as it doesn’t require the complicated Flash authoring tool and Flash development tools.

Features:

• Fully customized control panel
• Publish your FLV or mp4 video to website with a few clicks
• Add video to any of your Flash projects in seconds.
• Play commercials or any custom intro.
• Use your own logo in player.
• Use any size you want.
• No tricks, no scams, it is totally free.
• No special programming skills required.

How to install:

A easy howto guide comes with every downloadable player ZIP file.

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05. MC Media Player

MC Media Player is a Flash-based media player for embedding video, audio and still images in web pages. It is free to use for both non-profit and commercial websites.

There are currently two versions of the player: MC Classic (previously known as the 720×360 Edition) and MC Altair (beta).

• MC Altair — A single-file video player designed to be both easy to set up and extremely customizable. Supports FLV and H.264 (progressive download and RTMP streaming).
• MC Classic — This was our original player but it is now in the EOL (end of life) phase, i.e. it is no longer being developed.

Features:

• Customizable interface
• Can runs from MC Media Player’s server or your own server
• Resizable in both dimensions and aspect ratio.

How to install:

There is a Setup tool available on MC Media Player’s site by which you can create your own player.

Official Link

06. Video Player Pro

Video Player Pro is one more handy free flash video player that’s easy to configure and easy to add to your website. It is free for personal use.

Features:

• Combine All Of Your Movies Into One Great Looking Professional Package.
• Video Player Pro Comes In Different Versions To Suit Your Needs.
• Watch Movies The Way They Were Intended To Be Viewed.
• No Flash Programming Needed.

How to install:

There is a very detail video tutorial available online to understand the installation and setup process.

Official Link

07. VISCOM Web Player

VISCOM Web Player is a free platform independent web video player for website, it is an easy and convenient way to add single or multiple video to any websites. including video share sites, online Training, Education and Distance Learning , your blog, Myspace, forum.

Features:

• Support streaming flv video from your web site.
• upport xml playlist, you may add one movie or many movie to your player.
• Enable or Disable the video thumbnail list.
• Support for full screen when playback.
• Support for playback next video if more than one movie on playlist.
• Support for Aspect Ratio Control.
• Easily custom web player without coding knowledge.
• High Quality Skins included. Free Youtube style, Quick time player style, Window media player style, Real player style, Standard player style.

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08. SS4UPlayer

SS4UPlayer is an Internet based flexible video player which supports both streaming and progressive download. Work on both Windows and Linux platform. It supports playback of formats like FLV, 264, MP4, MP3. It has a wide range of flashvar settings which can be set through JavaScript. The XML-based skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its colour, scrubber color and size, transperancy level, font type, font colour and font size.

Features:

• Play/Pause, Seek, timer, fullscreen, Volume Bar, Preview Image
• You can load your personal logo.
• Fully Flash AS3 with classes and packages
• Can Load your video through Flash vars in javascript or through XML File
• Playlist support using xml
• Both streaming and progressive download support
• Very stable and customizable to any level

How to install:

A detailed installation guide comes with every downloadable player ZIP file. Or you can directly download the Installation PDF guide.

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09. Anarchy Media Player

Anarchy Media Player is for all those who want simplicity of use in publishing audiovisual content to the web, and what it does is it makes any mp3, Flash flv or Quicktime mov links playable directly on your webpage while optionally hiding the download link. Distributed under the GNU General Public License.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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10. SublimeVideo (Not Yet Released)

SublimeVideo is an HTML5 video player that will allow you to easily embed videos in any page, blog or site using the latest modern web standards.

Browsers makers are still working on fully supporting the HTML5 video specification, so at the moment SublimeVideo is still in experimental state and only works on a limited number of browsers. But the long term goal is to make it work on all modern browsers.

SublimeVideo will be soon released for free (at least for non-commercial use).

Features:

• Full-window mode — This will maximize the video to fit the browser’s window. It can be handy if you still want to access other applications while watching a maximized video in your browser.
• Full-screen mode — Currently only supported in the latest WebKit Nightly Builds, you can activate this mode by ALT-clicking on the full-window button.
• HTML5 video benefits — No browser plugin, no Flash dependencies! You can also jump anywhere in the video without having to wait for it to buffer.
• Standalone pure JavaScript library

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11. WP Media Player

WP Media Player is a Silverlight based media player plugin for WordPress that can be used for playing one or more players within the same blog post or page. It is used for playing self-hosted video files as well as for videos hosted on external video servers.

Features:

• 6 player styles
• Tracking and reporting on how many times the videos have been watched
• Default player configuration settings, such as size, thumbnail, auto load and auto play.
• Per-instance player configuration settings that can be used to customize each individual player within or across blog posts.
• The UI for video uploading and selecting of media files that is fully integrated into the WordPress post editing UI.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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12. Flash Video Player

The flash video plugin for WordPress allows the addition of video (and other media) to a WordPress website using standards-compliant markup and the leading open source software. A full options menu is available with post-level overrides for endless customization. Installation is quick and easy, and no additional setup/coding/php knowledge is required. This plugin is low footprint, creating no tables, and uninstalling cleanly. Version 5 provides full support for skinning the player, integration with Google Analytics, and the capability to display ads from LongTail Solutions.

Features:

• Robust Options Menu for Full Player Customization!
• Google Analytics on Video Events
• LongTail Ad Solution Enabled
• XHTML Compliant!
• No Remorse! No Database Tables and Uninstalls Clean
• Playlists, RSS, ATOM, XSPF, RTMP
• Widget Capable

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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13. Anarchy Media Player

Anarchy Media Player 2.5 for WordPress will play any simple href link to mp3, flv, Quicktime mov, mp4, m4v, m4a, m4b, 3gp as well as Windows wmv, avi and asf files, in the appropriate player on your web page. The WordPress versions also add buttons to the Rich Text Editor for embedding Flash swf and Director dcr movies as well as YouTube, Google Video, iFilm, DailyMotion, Revver, Metacafe, MySpace, Apple iTunes iMix, and GoEar players.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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14. All in One Video Pack

This is not just another video embed tool – it includes every functionality you might need for video and rich-media, including the ability to upload/ record/import videos directly to your post, edit and remix content with an online video editor, enable video responses, manage and track your video content, create playlists and much more.

Features:

• Upload, record from webcam and import all rich-media directly to your blog post
• Allow readers and subscribers to add video and audio comments, and to participate in collaborative videos
• Manage and track interactive videos through the management console
• Enable video advertising
• Complete administrative capabilities. You decide who can add and edit each video
• Supports more than 150 video, audio and image file formats and codecs

How to install:

For installation and other FAQ please refer this LINK

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15. Viper’s Video Quicktags

Tired of copying and pasting the embed HTML from sites like YouTube? Then this plugin is for you.

Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box — easy as that. You can fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, colors, alignment on the page) and much more. Your site will even stay (X)HTML valid unlike with the code provided by most video sites.

Features:

• Supported file types: Flash Video Files, QuickTime, Generic video files
• Currently supports multiple big video sites like YouTube (including playlists), Google Video, DailyMotion, Vimeo etc.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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16. Smart YouTube

Smart Youtube is a WordPress Youtube Plugin that allows you to easily insert Youtube videos/playlists in your post, comments and in RSS feed.

The main purpose of the plugin is to correctly embed youtube videos into your blog post. The video will be shown in full in your RSS feed as well.

Features:

• Easily embeds YouTube videos and YouTube playlist
• Supports latest high quality video protocols (360p and HD quality 720p)
• Allows full YouTube customization (colors, border, full screen…)
• Supports video deep linking (starting at desired point with &start=time parameter)
• Works on iPod and iPhone
• Provides a sidebar widget for videos as well
• Produces xHTML valid code

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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17. Embedded Video

The plugin is made for easily embedding videos into a blog post. The videos can be integrated from external portals (like YouTube, Google Video and many many others) or they can be uploaded to the web server or a remote server and integrated as well. Additionally a corresponding link to the video on the particular video portal page or a download link to the local file can be generated automatically, if demanded. The linktext is also configurable individually. Furthermore a fixed prefix for the linktext can be determined. The videos can be integrated easily by using the built-in WYSIWYG editor. The plugin generates XHTML-valid code and works from WP 2.5.

Features:

• file formats supported: flv, swf, mov, qt, wmv, mpg, mpeg, mpe, asf, asx, wax, wmv, wmx, avi.
• video portals are currently supported: YouTube, Google Video, dailymotion, MyVideo, Clipfish, Sevenload, Revver, Metacafé, Yahoo! Video, ifilm, MySpace Video, Brightcove, aniBOOM, vimeo, GUBA, Garage TV, GameVideos, vSocial, Veoh, Gametrailers.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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18. wordTube

This plugin manages the JW FLV MEDIA PLAYER 5.1 and makes it easy for you to put music, videos or flash movies onto your WordPress posts and pages.

wordTube supports the streaming video format (Format .flv or .swf), sound files as MP3 and JPG, GIF or PNG grafic files. With wordTube you can simply insert it into your blog with the tag [media id="media id"] or as playlist [playlist id="playlist id"].

You don’t need to change the WYSIWYG mode or special HTML knowledge to insert such a tag. You can show a simple media file (i.e. a flv Format) or a playlist of all your media files.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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19. ProPlayer

Places online videos (YouTube, Vimeo, Veoh, Youku, Dailymotion, etc..) into your post by using JW FLV Player.

Features:

• 27 different Skins
• Custom Playlists
• Video Ratings
• Audio Visualizer

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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20. SeeTheFace

SeeTheFace’s plugin for WordPress enables you to upgrade your text blog to Video Blog instantaneously.

With the help of SiteClip users will be able to easily use Publisher’s video message recorder and filters. Moreover, the mechanism behind SiteClip makes it possible to integrate it with any kind of website, regardless of its type and complexity. SiteClip can be built-in to E-commerce, Educational/Informational and News, Community, Auction sites as well as Job Portals, in a snap.

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK

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21. FLV Embed

FLV Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding Flash videos (FLV) into your blog. For commercial use and implementation, you need to purchase a license for the player. If you want information about encoding videos into FLV and why you should use FLV, Jeroen has also written an excellent article which you can find on his site.

Features:

• Enforces a standard plugin tag style
• Embeds an FLV file and does it the easiest way
• Highly portable, extensible and future proof tags
• XHTML compliant for those who cares about validation

How to install:

For detailed installation please refer this LINK