Friday, January 23, 2009

JWPlayer

home: http://www.longtailvideo.com
wiki: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac

JW Player has become the most used video player on the internet. It comes in two flavors, the JW FLV Player for Flash and the JW WMV Player for Silverlight. The player is completely open-source and free for noncommercial use. For corporate use, 30-euros commercial licenses are available.

JW FLV Player for Flash

http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/

current version: 4.3

The JW FLV Player is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP, HTTP, live streaming, various playlists formats, a wide range of settings and an extensive javascript API.

The skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving. You can already find a string of plugins at the LongTail Video site.


JW WMM Player for Silverlight

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_WMV_Player

current version: 1.1

The JW WMV Player (built with Silverlight) is a simple, flexible player for displaying Windows Media video, audio and (live) streams on your website. While not yet as widely installed nor feature-rich as Flash, Silverlight is excellent for publishers who have content encoded in WMV or WMA. The player features a similar list of variables as the JW FLV Player, with the exception of playlist support. The 1.1 version also introduces a javascript API.


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