JW Player for Flash

The JW Player for Flash is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player. It supports playback of any format the  Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, MP4, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP and HTTP (live) streaming, various XML playlists formats, a wide range of settings (flashvars) and an extensive javascript API. Its skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, analytics and adserving.

There's a separate overview page for the JW Player for Silverlight? and the JW Image Rotator?.

Documentation

These pages provide a compete overview of the JW Player:

• Supported content?
  • Single files?
  • Streaming servers?
  • XML Playlists?
  • JWPlayer namespace?
• Supported flashvars?
  • File properties?
  • Layout?
  • Behaviour?
  • API?
  • Config XML?
• API Calls?
  • Initialization?
  • Reading variables?
  • Sending events?
  • Setting listeners?
  • Plugin methods?
• Event reference?
  • Controller events?
  • Model events?
  • View events?
• An architectural overview? of the player.

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.

• All skinning elements? (names and nesting).
• 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.

Plugins

In the addons section of our public site, a lot of plugins are available for use with the JW Player. Here's the documentation of the plugins we built ourselves:

• Audiodescription?
• Autostarter?
• Captions?
• Clickproxy?
• HD?
• Livestream?
• Metaviewer?
• Revolt?
• Snapshot?
• Yousearch?

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 of each version of the player can be obtained through the source code browser (click the zip links at the bottom). Full changelogs for each version can be requested here.

The latest version can be checked out through  Subversion:

svn co http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/trunk/as3

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