Problem:
the simple integration of flowplayer with lightbox as a textlink
just works if the link is embeded in a post or page

Workaround:
to use this feature everywhere in another plugin or template
add the link in a post/page which will be rendered at the same url like this:

<p id="player-wrapper" style="display: none;">

<a class="colorbox" href="url/to/video.mp4">my text link</a>

</p>

at the place where the text link should be use:

<div id="player-position"><p><a href="backfall/link/to/video.mp4" >my text link</a></p></div>

<script type="text/javascript">

jQuery(function() {

jQuery('p','#player-position').remove();

jQuery('#player-position').append(jQuery('#player-wrapper').detach());

jQuery('#player-wrapper').show();

});

</script>

This way the plugin will create a player which isn’t visible to users. After the page is loaded the integrated javascript will replace your dummy link with the generated flowplayer code.

To developers:
in my case it would help if the parsing of `<a class="colorbox"` would be done in general, like shortcodes are: e.g. I can use shortcodes for flowplayer in other plugins like a slider but the text link as described doesn’t work.