JW Player for Flash

The JW Player for Flash is the most-used flavor. It is built in actionscript 3 and allows you to play back a multitude of media formats through the  Adobe Flash Player. Here's both a short introduction and the player download.

This site contains all documentation, source code and bugtracking for the JW Player. All basic info can still be found at  www.longtailvideo.com, but this site is used to offer developers more info and feedback opportunities. Please see the Roadmap to check future release dates and features. As always, feedback is highly welcomed. Other player flavors:

• JW Player for Silverlight?
• [ImageRotator JW Image Rotator]

Tutorials

The more publisher-centric tutorials can be found on the public site:

• Embedding the JW Player in an HTML page.
• javascript API tutorial, lots of copy-paste examples.
• HTTP Video streaming: seeking, throttling, security, lighttpd.
• Making video accessible (fallbacks, captions, audiodescription).

The more developer-aimed tutorials can be found right here:

• Building plugins? for the Player.
• [SkinningThePlayer Skinning the JW Player] in Flash CS3.
• The YouSearch plugin? re-built.
• Embedding the player? in Flex.

References

• Supported files and playlists?.
• Supported variables? (flashvars).
• The Player API? for javascript, actionscript & plugins.
• All skinning elements? (names and nesting).
• All events used in the player?.

• An architectural overview? of the player.
• All packages and classes? used in the source code.

• Crossdomain security? considerations.

Source code

The source code can be obtained in a zip (click the zip links at the bottom) or through  Subversion:

svn co http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/tags/mediaplayer-4.2

If you don't have a Subversion client, check out  Tortoise (Windows) or  SC Plugin (MAC).

Full changelogs for each version can be requested here.