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Switch Flowplayer from Flash to HTML5 ?

Started by Dode, 08.06.2015 18:38:44

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Dode

Perfect for me, excellent work Arno !
As for the choice of the JS player, yes i understand it's not easy to choose. Here is a simple and recent comparison chart that may help you : http://praegnanz.de/html5video/
Note that Video.js is not that great for a basic audio player, it's really video centric.
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Arno

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Hm... i test in the moment the video.js script. It seems to be very simple and easy to use. Maybe i should directly use a solution like this. I will reconsider this tonight.  :)

MediaElement.js seems to be more complicated (on the first look).
Best Regards / Gruß
Arno
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Dode

Video.js doesn't use JQuery, which might be an advantage for sure. But for audio, even with the latest release (>4.9, <audio> canvas support), it has to display a "picture" of the size of a potential video, generally the "jacket" (not sure of the english word, sorry).
MediaElement has much better support for audio, and can just display a simple "bar", as usual.
Your choice Arno ;-) .
Please other users, let us know what you think about this !
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ColinM

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Hi
This might be a bit of a simplistic view but why not have two sets! One that is very good for Audio only files and the other that works well for Video. ;D

Flow player managed to do both quite well but it used Flash so not good now.  There is nothing that says there should be a "catch all". 
jD uses imagemagic for graphics, no one expects it to support audio, video and ....

And it always strikes me that trying to do all things can lead to compromises!

It is also probably simpler for users to understand the setup if they are separate.  As far as I am concerned Audio and Video are different animals; it just happens that video has an audio facility that is married to the video.  I am sure that Dode can recommend an excellent audio only package.

We should not let one facility compromise another one.

Colin
Colin M
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Dode

FlowPlayer is kindda commercial now, so it seems out of the equation.
Maybe separating audio and video displaying is the solution (i love SoundManager2 for audio http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/), but it will get things complicated, no ? MediaElement.js seems to me the simpliest solution for JDownloads : single setup, to rule them all.
Arno is right, it must be simple and cover most usages.
I would love to see other users opinion.
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