We're rebuilding the video portion of our website using JWPlayer and have the majority of it working nicely.
http://www.videomi.com/Flash_load_example2.htm
(If you take a peek, a lot of it is still not functional, so don't pay attention to bad, broken or nonexistent links)
Unfortunately, as a part-time web designer (as in a few hours a month), I just haven't been able to figure out how to incorporate playlists into our site design. Considering the number of videos we have (in the hundreds), the ideal solution would be to create a player page that automatically reads metadata and can populate a playlist simply by uploading the encoded video file.
Wimpy Rave Player offers something like this and from reading quite a few posts, it seems to work. The downside is that many of those same posts lament the poor or nonexistent customer support from the company. That's what I love about Longtail and JWPlayer...the incredible support... and the knowledgeable and kind community here in the forums.
So...is it possible to build a player page with JWPlayer using playlists...that once it's built and coded, can automatically add a video file to the playlist (including generating a thumbnail, adding descriptive text etc.) by simply adding the video file to a specified folder?
Chris Blair
Magnetic Image, Inc.
Evansville, IN
www.videomi.com
Use a playlist generator.
http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw/?search=playlist+generator
Many serverside playlist generator scripts have been posted on the Forum.
When the player is instantiated, it will request a playlist from the playlist generator. The playlist generator will then generate a playlist consisting of all media in the designated directories and return it to the player. The playlist can be sorted by title, date, or other criteria when it is being generated.