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Flowplayer - Free video player for web

FlowPlayer is a Flash media player. You can use it on your HTML pages to play video files. “It is your personal YouTube”. Licenced under the GPL license.

  • Support for multiple media - FLV, SWF, MP3, MP4, H.264 video, JPG and PNG.
  • Highly customizable - tons of configuration options. Everything can be scripted via JavaScript.
  • Progressive download - the simplest way to provide Flash video to your users.
  • Streaming - supports streaming servers like the Flash Media Server, Wowza and Red5.
  • Skinning - it is possible to change the player’s colors to suit the color themes of different Web sites.
  • Full screen mode, Thumbnails, Playlists, Scripting API, Prevention of inline linking,  and more.

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Accordion Style Flash Menu

The code is very old but guess what … it’s working and it looks beautiful.

With some basic Flash knowledge, you can easily change the size of the movie, change images, add additional buttons, movie clips, animations, …

Update, March 14th, 2008: NOTE: You may NOT Redistribute Source files from your own site. You must link to the page where the source file is located.

Download Flash source .fla file

Enjoy!

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SimpleViewer - Free Flash Image Gallery

SimpleViewer is a Free, customizable Flash image viewer.

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Check out SimpleViewer demo

Features:

  • Intelligent image pre-loading.
  • Intuitive image navigation
  • Lightweight (17k).
  • Customizable interface - Set text color, frame color and width, navigation position.
  • Resizable interface - Interface scales to fit browser window.
  • Cross platform - Windows/Macintosh/Linux (requires Flash 7 or higher).
  • Flash 7 detection. Users without Flash 7 are messaged to upgrade Flash.
  • International font support.
  • Keyboard Navigation (Cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up/Down)
  • Mousewheel navigation
  • Optionally right-click to open image in a new window.
  • Free!

View instructions on how to use SimpleViewer / download SimpleViewer.

Also check out the TiltViewer from the same author / TiltViewer demo.

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Flash glow with trails effect

Flash trails effect using BitmapData. 28 lines of code, 3.9Kb swf file.

Download flash source file, enjoy!

NOTE: You may NOT Redistribute Source files from your own site. You must link to the page where the source file is located. License: Creative Commons 3.0 License.

Aditional info: It’s Flash 8, AS 2 code

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WS-Slideshow: Free Flash based slideshow

WS-Slideshow: One of the best Flash based slideshows - image galleries. The code behind this application has been written in ActionScript 3

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Features:

  • Slides based on *.gif, *.png or *.jpg files
  • Slides, styles and properties editable using a simple XML structure
  • Designed for 1 Mio. slides and more using an intelligence loading management
  • Scaleable from 300 x 220 up to full screen
  • Unlimited albums functionality
  • Descriptions for any slide possible
  • Keyboard shortcuts available
  • Full screen modus
  • File size only 70kb
  • Developed in ActionScript 3 based on Adobes Flash Player (version 9.0.28 or later)

Free for personal, non-commercial uses only - 1 commercial use is only 15€ - Unlimited commercial use 50€

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FusionCharts Free

Free Flash charting component that can be used to render data-driven & animated charts for your web applications and presentations.

You do NOT need to know anything about Flash to use FusionCharts.

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