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JW Player for Flash
- JW Player for Silverlight?
- [ImageRotator JW Image Rotator]
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. The public site contains both a short a short introduction and the latest download. This site contains all documentation, source code and bugtracking for the JW Player. All publisher-aimed info can still be found at www.longtailvideo.com, but this site is used to offer developers more info and feedback opportunities.
Plugin SDK
We now have a handy plugin development SDK you can use to quickly start building plugins. It contains a copy of the testing page and some plugin templates.
Tutorials
Some more publisher-centric tutorials can be found on the public website. All development tutorials can be found right here. If you want to learn about embedding Flash, the swfobject wiki is the place to go.
- Building plugins? for the Player.
- The YouSearch plugin? re-built.
- Crossdomain security? considerations.
- Embedding the player? in Flex.
- [SkinningThePlayer Skinning the JW Player] in Flash CS3.
References
These references provide a compete overview of what's supported within the JW Player:
- All player API calls? for javascript, actionscript & plugins.
- All events used in the player?.
- An architectural overview? of the player.
- All packages and classes? used in the source code.
- All skinning elements? (names and nesting).
Plugins
In the addons section of our public site, a lot of plugins are available for use with the JW Player. Here's a list with descriptions ánd source code of plugins we built::
- Autostarter: automatically start a movie the first X times for a user (zip).
We have a handy plugin development SDK you can use to quickly start building plugins. It contains a copy of the testing page and some plugin templates.
Also check out the Building plugins tutorial?.
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.
