Can anyone give a concise instruction on how I can have a flv play from my html page please?
Insert an SWF object into your HTML and assign the FLV in the attributes as the video that will play.
I'm fairly certain that shadowbox can also play FLV files: http://www.shadowbox-js.com/
It's clean, minimal and fairly simple to setup.
Another really popular Flash player is the JW Player, at http://www.longtailvideo.com/ . They have a nice setup wizard that generates the code you need.
Wrap a flash player around it, such as Flowplayer. There currently is no other way; browsers can't just render an FLV by itself.
See the installation guide for Flowplayer, taking you step-by-step on how to place the video directly into your HTML.
You can try https://github.com/Bilibili/flv.js
With flv.js, You'll get:
Flv.js utilizes MSE (Media Source Extensions) therefore it'll only be available on Chrome 43+, Firefox but not Apple / iOS Safari.
Flv.js instantaneously transmuxes flv streams to H.264 streams and then push the H.264 stream to Media Source Extensions. It'll display as a video tag in HTML Element with a blob URL.
With video.js its very easy. All you need to do is include js & css in head & then use html5 code as:
<head>
<link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/c/video.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<video id="video1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" width="640" height="480"
data-setup='{"controls" : true, "autoplay" : true, "preload" : "auto"}'>
<source src="video1.flv" type="video/x-flv">
</video>
</body>
For further details: http://videojs.com/ Actually, I did not find information specified about playing flv files. But it works fine. :)
You can use other video formats using video.js all you need to change is type as...
<source src="..." type="video/mp4">
Moreover, there might some issue regarding your browser, does your browser support the .mp4 format, I could not play .mp4 in chrome, but it works fine in firefox. Try adding more sources with same video in different formats. Like...
<source src="video1.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video1.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<source src="video1.webm" type="video/webm">