Question

No matter whether you embed a flash video using Flash Satay, swfobject, or some other method, there are a number of parameters that can be passed to the embedded video.

I’d like this to be a community wiki for the following questions:

• What parameters can be used to embed a flash video?
• How can the parameters be accessed via ActionScript?

Answer 1

Adobe has an object embedding reference that lists some of the possible parameters. Notably missing is the allowFullScreen parameter.

The following assumes “Satay Method“:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="path/to/file.swf">
 <param name="movie" value="path/to/file.swf" />
</object>

What parameters can be used to embed a flash video?

      Parameter       |    Type     |  How
=======================================================
align                 | <param> tag | stage.alignα
allowFullScreen       | <param> tag | ---
base                  | <param> tag | ---
bgcolor               | <param> tag | ---
classid               | attribute   | ---
codebase              | attribute   | ---
data                  | attribute   | ---
flashvars             | <param> tag | stage.loaderInfo.parameters or documentObject.loaderInfo.parameters
fullScreenAspectRatio | <param> tag | ---
height                | attribute   | stage.stageHeight†
id                    | attribute   | ExternalInterface.objectID‡
loop                  | <param> tag | not directly accessible◊
menu                  | <param> tag | stage.showDefaultContextMenu
movie                 | <param> tag | ---
name                  | attribute   | ExternalInterface.objectID‡
play                  | <param> tag | not directly accessible◊
quality               | <param> tag | stage.quality
salign                | <param> tag | stage.alignα
scale                 | <param> tag | stage.scaleMode
seamlesstabbing       | <param> tag | ---
swliveconnect         | <param> tag | ---
width                 | attribute   | stage.stageWidth†
wmode                 | <param> tag | ---

† only if scale is set to no_scale
‡ for cross-browser compatibility both the id and name attributes must be present, and set to the same value.
◊ see this question on how to indirectly access the value.
α NOTE: not sure whether align, salign or both are available via stage.align