How to play multiple videos in the same player.

[benopeth]

Hi There,

I'm currently looking for a quick and clean method of playing videos listed as text links, but when you click on one, it opens in the player on the page.

The same would apply to all other video links, so that the player is effectively a placeholder and when you click a video link, it plays right there in the browser.

Any suggestions? Bit of a simple one I imagine but have never had cause to do this before.

Thanks in advance!

[benopeth]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38248467@N07/5445445816/

This illustrates what I want to do if my description is a little ambiguous.

[Eye for Video]

There are a lot of ways to create a playlist. Have you looked into any players with playlist? What type of player are you using? Why do you need it to be a text link? Do the text links need to be separate from the player? If so, why?
Jw player and Flow player both support playlists
http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12537/xml-playlist-support
http://flowplayer.org/plugins/javascript/playlist.html
Best wishes,
Eye for Video

[benopeth]

Thanks for those links EyeforVideo, although I am keen to stick to this implementation. It's unstyled, hence why you might question why I'm going for this approach but it should look more appealing once I've got round to that.

I haven't looked into the playlist idea though it's an interesting option. I will be looking to stick with this structure for now though.

Basically, I want that single video player to be the target player and the links to play their corresponding video within it. So no page changes or anything really.

What would you recommend in order to achieve this?

Thanks!

[benopeth]

Okay, finally found what I was looking for.

http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Everything_You_Ever_Needed_To_Know_About_Video_Embedding - Scroll down to "How to make a video select list".

Quite a simple solution really, so will go with this I think.

Thanks for the suggestions!