# Video Files in Rails App

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 12, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/video-files-in-rails-app/88574 "2007-03-12T20:25:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/video-files-in-rails-app/88574/1 "2007-03-12T20:25:24Z")

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Hi,

Can anyome point me in the right direction for displaying Video files in  
a rails app. I know there is a utube plugin for rails to display utube  
video files but what i want is for a user to upload a video file and  
have the start, pause, rewind, fastforward controls etc.

What is the best way for this. Flash plugin, Ajax library etc???

thanks

JB

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**Author:** ![johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/video-files-in-rails-app/88574/2 "2007-03-16T00:10:59Z")

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Did you find anything?

Ive been using a code fragment usable on windows

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**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 12:19am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/video-files-in-rails-app/88574/3 "2007-03-16T00:19:59Z")

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> Can anyome point me in the right direction for displaying Video files in  
> a rails app. I know there is a utube plugin for rails to display utube  
> video files but what i want is for a user to upload a video file and  
> have the start, pause, rewind, fastforward controls etc.
> 
> What is the best way for this. Flash plugin, Ajax library etc???

If you are wiling to display flash video take a look at flowplayer…  
it’s  
pretty slick… controls, playlists, skinnable, streaming, and free 🙂

> **[The smallest, most flexible online video player - Wowza Flowplayer](https://flowplayer.com/)**
>
> Customisable, fast and powerful video player & platform. With 36 different player plugins and complete with mobile SDKs. Simple to deploy. Trusted by thousands.

-philip

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**Author:** ![johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8491ac/32.png) [@johnnybutler7](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/johnnybutler7)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 10:48am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/video-files-in-rails-app/88574/4 "2007-03-16T10:48:20Z")

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Clayton C. wrote:

> Did you find anything?
> 
> Ive been using a code fragment usable on windows

The best bet looks like Flash Video included in the page with a little  
javascript (UFO or SWFObject). Flash Video can has a integrated look and  
feel - and you can do some neat sudo-streaming.

Think i will give [http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net](http://flowplayer.sourceforge.net) a try looks  
promising.