Hi Daryl, It might be easier if you explained what the end result is supposed to be. You may not need to create a swf file, and you might be asking more complicated questions than you need to.
Most people just embed flash video players from video sharing sites. These play a flv file within an flv player (different from a regular swf file) all the files for which are delivered by the sharing site. YouTube, Blip, Vimeo players are all examples of this. You can also embed a flash video within a swf flash file, created using Flash. This gives you more options for creating interactivity, but the files are larger and (I think) require the whole swf file contents to be downloaded before playing can begin, unlike an flv player. With a self hosted Wordpress.org blog you can use pretty much anything you'd be able to put on a regular web page. With a Wordpress.com blog, hosted by them, your options are severely restricted. They have a special process for embedding media, using their own Wordpress code. So if you have a Wordpress.com blog, the answer to your question is almost certainly no. But then I don't know exactly what it is that you're trying to do. If you're trying to create your own Flash player to insert lots of clickable interactive elements on top of and alongside the video, designing it yourself in Flash and using custom ActionScript that you've coded yourself, then you'd be able to put that in a post on your self-hosted Wordpress.org blog just like you would on a regular page, but not on a Wordpress.com blog. But you may not have to go to all that trouble of making your own player and scripts and embedding custom-built swf flash files. Perhaps you're a Flash genius and want to do it yourself - but if not, there are various ready-made products to allow you to do these things. If you want clickable hotspots in your videos, you can use Asterpix to make a clickable Flash video or LiveStage Pro to make a clickable Quicktime video. If you want a funky Flash player that allows you to style it and add lots of custom widgets, you might find the JW Player does what you want. Or you might just find that YouTube Annotations does what you need. It allows you to put clickable notes and hotspots in videos, which can link to other videos and channels on YouTube. Asterpix interactive video: http://video.asterpix.com LiveStage: http://totallyhip.com JW Player: http://www.longtailvideo.com/ Rupert http://twittervlog.tv On 13-Apr-09, at 6:18 AM, Daryl Urig wrote: > > > I mean do both plugins allow you to have full flash functionality? > In flash you can use actionscript to create interactive design and > video. Can it be interactive? > > Urig > > --- In [email protected], Michael Sullivan > <sullele...@...> wrote: > > > > > > > > Do both of these support the use of actionscript in a wordpress > document? > > > > > > please rephrase this. you might mean to say support of flash in > wordpress > > posts. if so, indeed, you can embed video in your wordpress posts. > > > > you should probably just use youtube and copy the share embed code > into > > your own blogposts unless you want to distribute your videos on > itunes and > > for various devices... use blip.tv for the latter. > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
