# How do I have a flash movie play in a player YouTube style?

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**Created:** [September 29, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-have-a-flash-movie-play-in-a-player-youtube-style/420894 "2007-09-29T03:06:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![aaelghat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c5a1d2/32.png) [@aaelghat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaelghat)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-have-a-flash-movie-play-in-a-player-youtube-style/420894/1 "2007-09-29T03:06:02Z")

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Hi, I created a flash movie that can be found here:

[http://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html](http://www.lifeonrecord.com/flashmovie.html)

I want to put a link on my web site that will play it in a little window with the standard “stop”, “play”, “rewind” controls.

I’m pretty technical, but I’m not sure what I need to do. Do I need to install a player on my web server? Is there a free (open source) one that you’d recommend?

Even without the player I thought I could have gotten the movie to play in a small browser window (250 x 220 pixels) instead of the big one it’s currently playing in. Is there something I’m missing?

Thanks in advance.

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-have-a-flash-movie-play-in-a-player-youtube-style/420894/2 "2007-09-29T03:33:57Z")

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I believe you need to program a player into existence, using standard Flash scripting language, which you can learn via the Adobe Flash software.

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**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2007, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-have-a-flash-movie-play-in-a-player-youtube-style/420894/3 "2007-09-29T12:26:10Z")

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I use [this program](http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player). I’m using one of the Wordpress plugins based on it, but on its own you just have to write a few lines of code to embed it in your website.

In fact, the author created a wizard for writing the code: [JW Player: End-to-End Solution for Streaming & Monetizing Video](http://www.jeroenwijering.com/extras/wizard.html)