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copied!<p><strong>Client</strong> machines cannot play media files available <strong>locally</strong> on their drive with <strong>online flash players</strong> (with url = <a href="http://servername/playerapplication/playerpage" rel="nofollow">http://servername/playerapplication/playerpage</a>), for security reasons, unless they <strong>upload</strong> the files to the server. </p> <blockquote> <p>Check these links: <a href="http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/feature-suggestions/910/can-read-from-a-absolute-path#comment-57954" rel="nofollow">http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/feature-suggestions/910/can-read-from-a-absolute-path#comment-57954</a>; <a href="http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/8872/local-media-files" rel="nofollow">http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/8872/local-media-files</a></p> </blockquote> <p>But you still can play a media file available on the <strong>server</strong>'s <strong><code>C:\</code></strong> drive, <strong>online</strong> from <strong>any machine</strong>, by using a <strong>streaming server</strong> like <a href="http://www.wowzamedia.com" rel="nofollow">Wowza Media Server</a> or <a href="http://www.red5server.org" rel="nofollow">Red5</a>.</p> <p>For Wowza server, you have to do the following:</p> <ol> <li>Create a new empty folder for your application (e.g. myplayerapp) under <code>[wowza-install-dir]/applications</code></li> <li>Create another new empty folder (myplayerapp) under <code>[wowza-install-dir]/conf</code>, that includes <strong><code>Application.xml</code></strong> (Copy <code>[wowza-install-dir]/conf/Application.xml</code>), where you set <code>Streams/StorageDir</code> to <code>C:</code></li> </ol> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.streamalot.com/wowza-tips&tricks-jwplayer.shtml" rel="nofollow">http://www.streamalot.com/wowza-tips&tricks-jwplayer.shtml</a></p> </blockquote> <p>And your code will be like this:</p> <pre><code> jwplayer("VideoContainer").setup({ autostart: true, flashplayer: "swf/player.swf", file: "name.flv", //if your file is under C:\test, it will be file: "test/name.flv"... height: 270, width: 480, bufferlength: 2, streamer: "rtmp://servername/myplayerapp" }); </code></pre> <p>Note that the Wowza Media Server should be started before running the player page.</p> <p>Otherwise, to open <strong>local files</strong> on any machine, you need to open the player <strong>offline</strong> from every machine (e.g. C:\webserver\playerapplication\playerpage) and all the files (<code>swf</code>, <code>js</code>, <code>media files</code>) must have their locations set as <strong>local paths</strong>, as follows:</p> <pre><code> jwplayer("VideoContainer").setup({ autostart: true, flashplayer: "file:///C:/webserver/playerapplication/swf/player.swf", //or "C:\\...\\player.swf" or "C:/.../player.swf" file: "file:///C:/name.flv", height: 270, width: 480 }); </code></pre>

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