JW Player for Flash

• JW Player for Silverlight?

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.

Index

1. Tutorials
2. References
3. Plugins
4. Source code

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.

We also 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.

References

These references provide a compete overview of what's supported within the JW Player:

• All supported files and playlists?.
• All supported flashvars?.

• 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 the source code of the plugins we built ourselves. Read the included .xml file for a description and the available flashvars:

• Audiodescription: play a closed audiodescription parallel to the main file, for accessibility or director's comments use.
• Autostarter: automatically start a movie the first X times for a user.
• Captions: display closed captions of a video, in SRT or W3C Timedtext format.
• Clickproxy: proxy information about clicks from a user to javascript.
• HD: offer an HD version of a video to users.
• Livestream: poll for the availability of a live videostream. When available, the player automatically switches.
• Metaviewer: display enclosed metadata in FLV and MP4 files.
• Revolt: show cool visualizations and equalizers in the player.
• Snapshot: create a JPG snapshot of a video and send it to your server.
• Yousearch: search and play youtube videos.

If you want to build plugins too, download our handy plugin development SDK. It contains a copy of the testing page and some plugin templates.

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-4.4

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.