The latest DHTML Web Video & Images developments and directions
A simple demo of a single ADP Ultimate project with 2 instances (layers or popups) in it. All content types and methods can be combined with Ultimate, using a simple tabbed interface for the fast creation of each instance. Upload the project folder and add its name into the WordPress Plugin System and your done.
The video player http://transparentplayer.com/ latest beta release extends powerful functionality to include RTMP
live streaming.
Usually, an flv or mp4 video is played using “progressive download” which means that it starts playing
as soon as the buffer is full, and may be scrubbed forward to any point that has been buffered and cached in the browser.
With RTMP nothing is cached on the browser (the video can’t be stolen from the cache) and scrubbing can be
from anywhere in the timeline.
You can also specify a seconds-in variable to start playback at a certain point, and a duration variable
to specify how much to play back.
Advanced DHTML Popup is going server-side, a subscription based model with a low monthly fee will allow point and click project management, creation and code generation.
All you will need to do is paste in the usual code lines that are generated for you. Various additional benefits will arise from the service, such as statistics, real-time changes, rotation of content etc.
When we say real-time we mean that a user will be able to login, make a change to a project, press submit and the change will be immediately reflected in the page.
A free beta period will available for all subscribers with no obligation to continue after transition to a live state.
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DHTML Popup Window creation just got a lot simpler and faster with Advanced DHTML Popup Ultimate
ADP Ultimate contains extensions to the power of ADP professional in the areas of multiple simultaneous layers, more complex project creation functions etc. ADP Professional will cover all the needs of the majority of users and itself continues to grow.
Among its powerful features are the automation of multiple layer generation, the ability to add and remove files to templates and create your own templates, a tabbed interface allowing for multiple layer design all within one session, and more.
In this latest revision the most powerful new feature is automated generation of multiple sequential layers, complimenting
the multiple simultaneous layer functions.
We had a request to show ADP tooltips in wordpress using the WordPress Popup System, pretty quick and easy to get these 2 examples up:
The powerful flash player Transparentplayer.com is now HTML5 capable in the sense of providing a fallback to HTML5 video on all i-devices (ipad, ipod, iphone). This means that the config file now accepts an additional video format for those devices and on detecting them with display that format in the HTML5 player.
Also in this release is full-screen capability. Coming soon in the next release will be RTMP.
Advanced DHTML Popup Ultimate Beta – last call
ADP Ultimate is about to be released at a discounted entry price to the existing beta group. For some details about this new product see below.
All subscribers will be given a discounted price in any case at the time of the launch but those who join the beta group more so, as follows:
ADP Ultimate beta upgrade costs (notional, may change slightly):
Actual cost: $79.95 (upgrade from Pro $35)
Beta purchase: $66.95 (upgrade from Pro $22)
The beta offer will be subject to a time limit.
***If you wish to join the beta group let us know & we will send you the discount coupon (applies to ADP Pro users only)***
What is expected from beta users? Nothing, but if you do provide feedback we will be extremely grateful 
So why are we doing this – we just want to see people start using it and taking projects live, we want to handle the support for it and learn how to make it even better.
Those who buy in when the beta is released will get all the free and frequent upgrades resulting from feedback and will end up with the live version having made only a small initial investment to upgrade form ADP Pro.
ADP Ultimate:
ADP Ultimate, the third in the Lite, Pro, Ultimate series of Advanced DHTML Popup has been under development from scratch using Delphi Pro as the development platform for almost a year now. It will be available at a discount to all subscribers.
Among the powerful new features are complete object oriented code design allowing for the automation of multiple layer generation, the ability to add and remove files to templates and create your own templates, a tabbed interface allowing for multiple layer design all within one session, and more.
After its release, ADP Pro and Lite will be cut from the Ultimate code so that they can also benefit from the new Delphi development environment used, and then made available to owners of the Pro, Lite products for free.
ADP Ultimate, the third in the Lite, Pro, Ultimate series of Advanced DHTML Popup has been under development from scratch using Delphi Pro as the development platform for almost a year now. It will be available at a discount to all subscribers.
Among the powerful new features are complete object oriented code design allowing for the automation of multiple layer generation, the ability to add and remove files to templates and create your own templates, a tabbed interface allowing for multiple layer design all within one session, and much more.
After its release, ADP Pro and Lite will be cut from the Ultimate code so that they can also benefit from the new Delphi development environment used, and then made available to owners of the Pro, Lite products.
Transparentplayer.com currently has a prototype of its website video player or html5 video. We are developing the beta version at this time. Our approach to delivering a quality html5 video player will be to deliver an automated solution that we believe resolves many of the concerns and challenges that use of the immature html5 standard creates.
We believe that the best approach currently will be to sense the browser type of the web visitor and if a browser that does not have flashplayer support is sensed the player script will serve up an html5 version of the player and video content.
For example when a user visits on an Apple iPad this would be sensed and the player script will seamlessly switch and deliver HTML5 video. All other visitors with flashplayer installed will see the flash based Transparent Player delivered content.
Our partner Josh Anderson and Scott Lundergan, two of the most sought out direct response video publishers on the web have just released a package called Optimize Your Video 2.0. The content of the first package was created and shared with a small group of clients in 2007 and many of those clients went on to optimize and publish their videos with stellar results.
Ever since, they have built upon every angle of direct response video publishing to release a special package for web video creation, done-for-you solutions, the main video triggers to have inside your videos, workflow strategies when creating your own videos or outsourcing them to make the creation process a total breeze.
You can see all the episodes here Optimize
They’ve included easy to follow creation tips, swipe files, blueprints and strategies for syndicating your content across the web, talking head videos, screen capture optimization, behind the scenes case studies of six and seven figure web video based product launches.
They’ve also gone a step further to include settings, loads of tricks and quick tutorials to reference when optimizing your videos for the web, podcast publishing strategies and new media strategies for multimedia content delivery.
Just the savings on voice-over resources, video landing page templates and generic niche video intro templates along are worth the price….. and those are just the bonuses!
See all 18 Modules of what has came out of the mastermind strategies that have been used with repeated success for the last 3 years with hundreds of their clients across several niche markets: Optimize
Version 1.11 of the popular “The WordPress Popup System” has just been released. New features include:
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Exit Popups
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Lightbox effect
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Whole options panel easier to navigate
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And coming soon in version 1.12:
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Footer ads in standalone mode! (already available in pro mode)
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Tags: Add new tag, lightbox effect, popups, wordpress exit popups, wordpress popup window
A demo using the video plugin of ADP in wordpress – see here for instructions (and in the knowledgebase)
Footer Ads are the new breed of popup which are taking the internet marketing world by storm. The popularity of this type of popup over the traditional is ten-fold and in this article we will explain a little bit about why.
Pop-ups have been here a while now and are normally associated with annoying unwanted guests which normally result in deterring a visitor from the website rather than enticing them into viewing further. So you may be asking what’s different about the footer ads or any DHTML based ads? For a start they are discreet and un-blockable by popup blockers.
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To put an exit popup on any wordpress blog post is easy with the WordPress Popup System. Not only any post or page (including the home page) but also any number of posts you choose, including all posts with certain exceptions, or only the home page etc.
Exit from top or left of page to see demo
In this demo an image taken from the overlay images plugin for Advanced DHTML Popup is used and the modal option selected as well as the exit option. The WordPress plugin is being used in its Pro mode.
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Tags: Advanced DHTML Popup, flash video wordpress popup system plugin dhtml layer, popups, wordpress popup window
A simple demo using Advanced DHTML Popup Pro and the WordPress Popup Plugin in its Pro mode to produce the lightbox effect with a custom image overlaying the popup (in this example the image is taken from the overlay images plugin of ADP).
Tags: Add new tag, Advanced DHTML Popup, DHTML layers, popups, wordpress popup window
Due to huge demand and the complexity of designing the HTML and CSS yourself, we outsourced this design to a Professional website design service and created a series of beautiful footer ads with an optional optin form inside.
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The newly released Version 3.10 of the The Transparent Flash Player now supports not only video content hosted by the Transparent Player but also user defined Custom content and YouTube videos also.
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Tags: Alpha Transparent Flash Video, flash video wordpress popup system plugin dhtml layer, wordpress popup window
Version 2.49 of ADP Pro has been quite exciting – although on the surface it appears that only a few things have changed,
the reality is that the extensive core changes have made a lot of difference to users, especially those using it for multiple layers
on a page, or dynamically changing a single layer.
The new API extensions (adpPlace(), adpTitle(), adpScroll()) and the
dynamic updating of the positions of multiple layers with browser resizing have helped a lot of projects so far.
This latest development push has taken the player to a completely new level of sophistication. It has already become one of the most
well known and useful players, but with this release it is set to completely revolutionize the way video is displayed on web pages.
Below is a list of some of the new enhancements in version 3.0 – see earlier entries for all the features.
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All configuration done from single config file containing all videos & global variables including direct embedded videos
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Single script line in web page controls everything (plus a css file)
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Remote hosting capabilities extended
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Cookie (show once) function now uid dependent (can be applied to individual videos or all)
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Appear on exit – either multiple exits or multiple videos on single exit
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Multiple simultaneous videos and /or generic content layers, with independent stream-end function calls
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Generic content layers (you design the content)
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Closing one video can now close all optionally
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Modal mask option
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Title & close button options with global color settings
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Extended options for type of window opened with vLink, iLink & on stream end redirect
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Looping of video option
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Keep control bar visible at all times option
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Double the size of the control bar for larger videos/tutorials
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Delay the start of any video by some seconds
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Enhanced dhtml script library with greater API controls for advanced users
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When developing this: DHTML Popup PHP/MySQL images database we wanted a way to indicate that the image was loading (being pulled from the database and downloading to the browser), a very common request.
We only wanted something simple, no graphics going round and round or anything like that, just “Loading…” with the dots cycling from 1-3 while waiting for the image.
The latest version of the The Transparent Flash Player will be available shortly. Integrated with the modal and exit methods, it is now far easier to use the powerful script that controls the movements of the player in the page and its triggering of other videos.
Announcing the imminent release of a new product ADV-Direct, a purely script & template driven plug & play product for immediate deployment of dhtml based content in your pages.
With one line of script placed in the header the user can then add content via single line calls to the script which contain all common parameters for each of the templates. Advanced configuration can be modified via a simple config file.
Currently templates exist for YouTube, The Transparent Player & Generic (user controlled) content. Methods available are scrolling, modal (lightbox)
effect, on-exit, 9 different locations in the page & more. Multiple layers with different kinds of content can simultaneously co-exist.
This product, begun originally as something for the Macintosh users but available to anyone as a lightweight yet powerful addition
to ADP, will revolutionize the way in which users can add content to web pages. It will be the focus of a strong development drive over
the next few months.
The third of a series of powerful upgrades to Advanced DHTML Popup Pro has been released
This is being released initially to the newsletter subscriber list, to be followed in a few days on the site. It is the third of the recent series of revisions and much of the development is focused on the core script. Major changes are:-
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New CSS code gives flawless scrolling of single & multiple layers in Firefox/Safari/Opera etc (used to be jerky in non-IE browsers)
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Follow page scrolling extended to multiple layers
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Browser resize handling extended to multiple layers in absolute positioning (top-right etc)
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API & CSS extended to include individual title control of multiple layers
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API extended to include dynamic control of absolute positions
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New compile option to automatically stop audio stream when video layer closed
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In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate daisy-chaining multiple videos with auto-scrolling down the page from one to the next.
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I was reading some blog article discussing all this about embedding cloaked links and affiliate links the other day and realized that most people just don’t realize how simple this is. Also, the way shown here avoids what I think are messy looking shorturls, or crude methods using simplistic JavaScript to modify what the status bar says.
Maybe in the future I’ll extend it to use a nice little web-interface where the actual and displayed URL’s can be entered, but for now I show the basic thing. When I wrote it I wasn’t concerned about hiding affiliate links, I just needed a way of simplifying and organizing the linking to various examples I have available.
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This is a quick demo of an “overlay image” popup using an image which is custom designed and overlaid on top of the popup itself. A set of beautiful images for this purpose is available – 2 of which are included in ADP Pro – or any user designed image can be used.
Easily configure player parameters and flashvars from a new form directly into the project. This plugin (requires ADP Pro) makes adding Flash® video including alpha-transparent video into the popup content easy and simple.
It is under rapid development with the first of multiple new templates now completed. Near future releases (available as free upgrades) will include templates for all major players out there, including of course the hugely popular, powerful & lightweight Transparent Player which has its own WordPress Plugin Templates.
Starting with the release of 2.47 we have been working hard to push Advanced DHTML Popup Pro to a new level altogether at version 2.50. A whole series of additions is planned, including a range of powerful new scripted templates & better engineering of the templates backend to allow easy installation of new ones provided by us, or created by users.
The second of a series of powerful upgrades to Advanced DHTML Popup Pro has been released. Version 2.48 completes the plugin implementation. Last month we announced the modal script (lightbox effect) is now a real plugin, fully automated. This month the overlay images pack and the video script are both integrated.
But the real bonus is the video plugin, more on that below. More scripted templates, slide-up & slide-out methods and more.
All the ADP templates use in-line CSS for styling the content, but it is also possible to use both an external file or a CSS style block, such as you
would normally declare in the head section of your page. To do this though requires (thanks to IE’s handling of the dhtml content layer) a trick.
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This popup slides up from the bottom edge on any wordpress blog post. Not only any post or page (including the home page) but also any number of posts you choose, including all posts with certain exceptions, or only the home page etc.
Here it is set to the full width of the browser and to follow page scroll. It could be any dimension, hold any content and slide up to any location in the post.
Single or multiple image thumbnails embedded into websites and blogs need to be expanded into a larger image when clicked or on mouseover. In this post the simplest example is shown – mouse over the thumbnail below for a larger view in a DHTML popup.
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Josh Anderson is the expert in this, and all things web video related. He offers a very low cost package here which is packed with information.
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In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate the use of multiple anchors to attach multiple videos to. See this post for the single anchor case.
Each video has been offset (optionally) from the anchor (made visible deliberately here) by varying amounts in x,y just to show the possibilities.
Most importantly, by starting one video and then starting another, the download (streaming) of the first video is stopped, so that only one video is occupying the bandwidth at any one time. This is a totally unique feature of the transparent flash video player.
Then by going back to the first video the streaming will continue, while that of the second will stop. You can check this easily here by watching the progress bar of the player. In this way, any number of videos of any type can be listed and viewed on one page without ever loading the bandwidth with more than one.
(You may need to clear your browser cache to start over if you have already clicked the links)
The last video is also non-transparent, this video player can show any flash content, You-Tube content and custom content and now in Version 3.0 can show high-definition h.264 encoded content.
In this post of the transparent flash video player template series
we demonstrate the use of an anchor to attach the video to, so that it is always fixed in place, despite not being directly embedded in the post. This anchor allows for an offset in x,y to be specified so that precise positioning can be accomplished.
The anchor takes the form of an id, for example id=”adpAnchor1″ in this example, and can be used in any HTML element, such as a <p>, a <div>, or a table cell etc.
In this example the video shows up automatically, but we could just as easily have a link triggered video instead, as seen in this template if you just stop the video (set to close the dhtml layer as well as the video when stopped in this case) and click the link instead:
This is the blog of Advanced DHTML Popup and its sister sites including The WordPress Popup System. Here we track and provide examples of all the developments we make in rich media content (largely Flash Video) embedding in websites and wordpress blogs.
Our most recent release is the WordPress Plugin for DHTML popups – see here.
Also recently released is our powerful & lightweight flash video player. This player is focussed on the web and blog developer that is serious about using video, including multiple videos, since it is solves completely the problem of bandwidth overload with an option to override automatic video stream buffering. But this is only the start, affliliate links, redirection, running script at the end of play, auto-close, auto-scroll etc etc. See the blog post here.
Tags: Alpha Transparent Flash Video, player, wordpress popup window
Introducing:
“The WordPress Popup System”
Easily and in minutes of installation embed customizable and unblockable DHTML popup windows and Exit Popups with a powerful lightbox effect into your WordPress Blog. These are the same windows as seen here and as new versions are rapidly released (upgrades are free) will become every bit as powerful.
But this is not just a simple one page or post popup window creator, this is a system with many remarkable features. With this plugin you can create as many DHTML popup windows as desired, the settings for each of them are stored automatically in the database and can be called up and changed at any time.
You can embed Aweber and GetResponse optin forms, videos (including YouTube, Transparent (pro-mode) Flash etc), images and any content desired.
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Transparent Flash Video embedding
In this post we have embedded a transparent DHTML layer which contains a video spokesperson. It is attached to the top-right corner, and incorporates a transparent flash video player with some special features, available for sale. Read the rest of this entry »