Now that we understand the basics of how to insert multimedia code into our site, let's look at a few add-ons that can be used to add visual interest and extra metadata.
Written by the talented Martin Aspeli, this tool is a lightweight Plone integration layer for Flowplayer, a great, GPL'd Flash-based player for FLV (Flash Video) and MP3 (audio) files. More information on Flowplayer can be found at http://flowplayer.org/, and the product can be downloaded from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.flowplayer.
The integration is nearly seamless. You can upload a FLV or MP3 file as a standard file object, and from that you get a video player. There's no special content type, and no complex configuration involved:
Other features include the following:
Flowplayer is...