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Upgrade to jwplayer 6.0

Open mithro opened this issue 12 years ago • 2 comments

We currently use jwplayer 5.0 which is the previous version of the player. The new version includes a lot of new features such as;

  • Extended device support, including mobile support
  • Built in support for Captions (is this useful?)
  • Improved Javascript API
  • Improved analytics, including a lot more information
  • Improved streaming support, including inbuilt quality selection and better adaptive support
  • Better embedding and quicker loading.

Some further details about migrating can be found at http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28834/migrating-from-jw5-to-jw6 and http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/bits-on-the-run/31912/upgrading-players-to-jw6/ and http://www.jwplayer.com/upgrade-steps/

While eventually we hope to move to a completely FOSS solution (see issue #60), upgrading to the latest JWPlayer would give us a lot of extra functionality quickly so it is probably still worth doing.

mithro avatar Mar 16 '13 17:03 mithro

See the https://github.com/timvideos/timvideos/tree/jwplayer-upgrade branch.

mithro avatar Mar 20 '13 00:03 mithro

While eventually we hope to move to a completely FOSS solution (see issue #60), upgrading to the latest JWPlayer would give us a lot of extra functionality quickly so it is probably still worth doing.

mithro avatar Mar 17 '14 01:03 mithro