# Playing Videos using HTML Links and Flash Vars

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-videos-using-html-links-and-flash-vars/312057>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 23, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-videos-using-html-links-and-flash-vars/312057 "2010-07-23T23:42:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-videos-using-html-links-and-flash-vars/312057/1 "2010-07-23T23:42:41Z")

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How hard is it to use html links to call a video player and send a source video file? I have a bunch of links that need to show a different video in a video player. Im wrestling with just making a new swf for each page that is hard coded or one player that can take an xml file name (containing video path and other text data).

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 Is it fairly easy to use javascript/ajax to update the video player?
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