Can anyone give a concise instruction on how I can have a flv play from my html page please?
Answer
With video.js its very easy. All you need to do is include js & css in head & then use html5 code as:
<head>
<link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<video id="video1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" width="640" height="480"
data-setup='{"controls" : true, "autoplay" : true, "preload" : "auto"}'>
<source src="video1.flv" type="video/x-flv">
</video>
</body>
For further details: http://videojs.com/ Actually, I did not find information specified about playing flv files. But it works fine. :)
You can use other video formats using video.js all you need to change is type as...
<source src="..." type="video/mp4">
Moreover, there might some issue regarding your browser, does your browser support the .mp4 format, I could not play .mp4 in chrome, but it works fine in firefox. Try adding more sources with same video in different formats. Like...
<source src="video1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video1.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<source src="video1.webm" type="video/webm">