The University of Iowa: Department of Dance Flash Player

• Department of Dance website (the player is near the bottom)
• Screenshot of the player

 

Development Information

This flash-based video player was developed for the Department of Dance in order for visitors to view testimonials from prominent members of the department. The player itself was written in ActionScript 3. The player has the following features:

• XML-based playlist of videos. This allows for easy extendability and modification of the videos loaded into the player. Videos and descriptions can be added/deleted without modifying the original fla file.
• Automatic detection of visitor's flash capabilities. If the user does not have Javascript enabled or doesn't have a good version of Flash, the video player falls back on some helpful and unobtrusive images that tell the user what he or she is missing. See the following images:
  
  • Flash Needed
  • No Javascript