Flash Video Player instead of Product Image

[outeredge2]

Dose anyone know of a way to do this. What I am wanting is to put a very small video of theproduct instead of some of the photo's.

I do know of the 360 viewers out there that you can get however that requires taking 18+ imgeas per product.

Thoughts???

[schoolboy]

There are some ZC-compatible image manipulators at magictoolbox.com . These are commercial programs - there may be other free ones available.

[outeredge2]

I think I may have found it....

Basically what I need to do is insert the flash code into the tpl_product_info_display.php page and then concatenated the product id onto the end of the swf file. This enables you to have a unique video playing based on each product id. So my code looked like this:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="includes/languages/english/ss/video<?php echo $products_id_current; ?>.swf" width="368px" height="280px">
<param name="movie" value="includes/languages/english/ss/video<?php echo $products_id_current; ?>.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high"><param name="BGCOLOR" value="#000000">
<param name="menu" value="false">
</object>

So the steps would be:

1. Create a folder in the path includes/languages/english/ss/video
2. Upload all videos in .swf format which are named the same as your Product ID (eg: id95.swf) to the folder includes/languages/english/ss/video folder you created.
3. Copy the code listed above into the tpl_product_info_display.php file.
4. Save the tpl_product_info_display.php you just edited it and Upload.

The Videos should now work.

Does this make sense.

If it does, and once I have tested it I will create an addon for everyone to use.

[fairestcape]

Logic seems sound - though you may need to call in the codecs for windows media player - or whatever player you are using, in the <object> code.

I believe firefox prefers the <embed> tag.

[outeredge2]

Logic seems sound - though you may need to call in the codecs for windows media player - or whatever player you are using, in the <object> code.

I believe firefox prefers the <embed> tag.

Can you please expand on this? I am not sure what exactly you mean.

[dgent]

Just turn off the product image and hard code a Youtuve iframe video into the product description. Using flash videos is going to rape bandwidth, loading times, and no one on Apple devices will see anything.