FlowPlayer, which is an amazing video player for websites, has a new version: FlowPlayer 3, with powerful features.

The player has a JavaScript API (with jQuery support) that enables you to control almost every aspect of the player. This makes the player so flexible & easy to transform into any form.

FlowPlayer is totally skinnable & every part (component) of the player can be removed or re-positioned.

It can display images besides the videos (& audio-mp3 support will be added very soon).

And, with a plugin support (implemented in JavaScript and Flash) there are even more features like playlist support, displaying content over the videos & more.

FlowPlayer has both free & commercial licenses where free license has a logo & commercial licenses are totally unbranded.

Chance To Win 3 Commercial Licenses

FlowPlayer is running a contest: "most creative use of Flowplayer". They are simply asking you to use FlowPlayer in an innovative way & 3 best ideas will win commercial licenses ($95/value).

To join the contest, post your URL where you used FlowPlayer to here (contest is running until the end of the year).

Want to get inspired? See the beautiful demos here.

TimeLiner is an open source application which enables users to contribute to videos, audio & slides with text.

This texts are time-specific, which means: when the media is played again other users will be seeing the messages at the exact moment they were posted.

The application is very easy to use; users just click "respond to timeline", the media pauses and a message can be entered.

TimeLiner uses JW Player (see WRD post) and is also offered as a hosted widget.

Shadowbox is a cross-browser, cross-platform Lightbox-like media viewer which supports all the commonly used media types like images, QuickTime, Windows Media Player, Flash, Flash video, and even external web pages.

Shadowbox can be used easily with the popular JavaScript frameworks as it already has adapters for jQuery, Prototype + Scriptaculous, Ext.js & Yahoo! User Interface Library.

Flash Video is supported via JW FLV Player. Although many types of video are supported, for compatibilty reasons, Shadowbox advises that Flash Video to be used.

Zenphoto is a php – mysql image & video gallery script which has all the features an image gallery must have. It is built with simplicity in mind, this makes Zenphoto is a very easy to use  gallery script both for users & admins.

Some features of Zenphoto:

• Image & video albums + sub-albums
• Ftp or admin panel uploading of images, videos
• Commenting
• Tags
• RSS feed
• Powerful search
• Plugins support (Wordpress plugins, Facebook integration & more)
• Themes support

Zenphoto has an active user community where support can be found for this nice php mysql image & video gallery script.

As there are very nice flash & ajax image galleries, this flash gallery application is a bit different from the others as the galleries are created from a desktop application and then uploaded to your website.

Slideroll Gallery AV (formerly Picklish), is a flash image & video gallery tool that lets you create your galleries from a simple drag and drop interface. PC users can also record their own narration with their galleries.

Snarf photos feature of Slideroll Gallery AV lets you to download any images from a website or a rss feed directly into your gallery.

Look and feel of the galleries can be customized and after uploading the image & video gallery to your website, html editing is possible for any tweakings needed.

Videobox is a 6kb script, which shows your videos in the page with an overlay. It was inspired from Lightbox.v2 and uses some of the Slimbox’s code. It’s written for the wonderful mootools library. And used swfobject to embed flash.