Upgrade to jwplayer 6.0

mithro commented 11 years ago

We currently use jwplayer 5.0 which is the previous version of the player. The new version includes a lot of new features such as;

Extended device support, including mobile support
Built in support for Captions (is this useful?)
Improved Javascript API
Improved analytics, including a lot more information
Improved streaming support, including inbuilt quality selection and better adaptive support
Better embedding and quicker loading.

Some further details about migrating can be found at http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28834/migrating-from-jw5-to-jw6 and http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/bits-on-the-run/31912/upgrading-players-to-jw6/ and http://www.jwplayer.com/upgrade-steps/

While eventually we hope to move to a completely FOSS solution (see issue #60), upgrading to the latest JWPlayer would give us a lot of extra functionality quickly so it is probably still worth doing.

mithro commented 11 years ago

See the https://github.com/timvideos/timvideos/tree/jwplayer-upgrade branch.

mithro commented 10 years ago

While eventually we hope to move to a completely FOSS solution (see issue #60), upgrading to the latest JWPlayer would give us a lot of extra functionality quickly so it is probably still worth doing.

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Upgrade to jwplayer 6.0 #32