Found 2 posts here on .flv files. One is a hack for an old version of cpg, the other gives instruction to download a player and let your OS handle the file. For those of us who deal primarily in video files the download solution for all of our visitors is less than ideal.
According to vitalstream, 98% of all computers online have some type of flash player that can read .swf files (64% Windows media, 58% Real, 53% Quicktime). We could encode all of our videos to .swf but according to Macromedia(Adobe) this isn't a good idea for non-interactive videos. Reference the 5 page document at:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/flash/articles/flv_download.htmlCurrently, I am offering 2 versions of every file (QT and WMV). This kills my server storage and makes navigation atleast 1 click deeper as I seperate them into their own 'file type' sub albums.
I know the hack (
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=16818.0 ) only had a couple of line modifications to point to a player, and I know there are many free players and programmers who would love to have their player distributed with cpg. I'll do any leg work you need to get pieces in place. This would put cpg ahead of many other gallery scripts, though telekorn is coming out with one this month.
Great script regardless!! Thanks for your work
Seth