Accept JSON flashvars in Flash mode

[pablo]

Currently, the player cannot accept JavaScript objects as configuration options. This limitation results in the embedder needing to perform some gymnastics in order to send JSON-style configuration into the player post-embed (for JSON playlists, for example).

Another use case is plugins which may benefit from having its configuration represented in a nested structure.

The embedder should be able to accept objects in its configuration and pass the entire object to the player in Flash mode.

The proposed mechanism is:

1. Have the Embedder serialize the JSON into a string (perhaps with some sequence of identifier characters to differentiate it from a string containing curly braces)
2. Pass the serialized JSON to the Flash player at embed time via flashvars
3. In Flash mode's Configger class, de-serialize any options (player or plugin) in serialized JSON format into generic Objects.

[jeroen]

This is exactly what I was looking for for the Captions plugin - support for this would mean inline captions can be supported:

plugins: {
  captions: {
    entries: [
      {start:1.2, end: 3.0, text: "Hello world" },
      {start:4.0, end: 6.5, text: "These are inline captions." }
    ]
  }
}

[pablo]

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