JW Player Developer Site

JW Player 6 is the world's most popular HTML5/Flash embeddable media player for websites. It supports a wide array of desktop browsers, mobile devices and media formats. It is open-source and easy to configure, customise and extend.

This developer site contains resources for engineers interested in the JW Player roadmap. See the following locations for more extensive resources:

• JW Player product pages for general info, pricing and download.
• JW Player documentation for technical capabilities and setup.
• JW Player support forums for feedback and community support.

SDKs

This site provides two SDKs, for designers respectively developers who want to extend the player's functionality in different ways:

• JW6 Plugin SDK for developers. Includes documentation, build tools, sample plugins and a testing page.
  • Download Plugin SDK
• JW6 Skin SDK for designers. Includes documentation, example skins and a testing page.
  • Download Skin SDK

Source code

The source code of the Free edition JW Player can be obtained using the source code browser or using  Subversion (replace the X below with the minor version you want):

svn co http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/tags/mediaplayer-6.X

JW Player can be compiled using the free, cross-platform Flex SDK. We do not provide any assistance with doing so. Note the sources of the Pro, Premium and Ads editions are not freely available.

Tickets

A list of open issues can be found under the ticket browser. Tickets can be ordered by type (bug, enhancement, etc) and/or component (embedding, advertising, skinning, etc). See for example:

• All outstanding bugs by component
• All outstanding enhancements by component