I’ve come to upgrade my JW-player from 5.4 to 5.8, because I wanted to have my website accessible to iOS devices like iPAD2. There are a few issues to be cleared:
Flash-mode:
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IE 7/8/9 and Chrome/XP: everything plays fine, though with Chrome/Win7, however, the player behaves in the same way as Safari/XP (see below)
Safari/XP: Play icon appears in the center of screen, although icon option is set to FALSE. Does not appear with Win7.
Safari on iPAD2: not supported
HTML5-mode (i.e. Flash plug-in disabled):
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IE6/7/8: not supported
Chrome: plays fine with all window sizes.
IE9/Win7: small scaled videos (f.i. height: 207, width: 368, see http://www.creativedition.atwebspace.at/EN/video1.htm) do not fit into screen and play with wrong dimension. 480/270 and bigger play fine, though.
Also, videos with „controller: none“ play fine, i.e. all of the banner videos on top of document.
Safari on desktop: plays fine, both, XP and Win7.
All browsers: I use the skin „norden.zip“, which offers PLAY and STOP button. In Flash mode, both are available, in HTML5 mode the STOP button has gone. Also both playtime figures are badly readable (black figures over dark background).
Safari on iPAD2:
1) Player with defined skin does not show the controller at all, though the corresponding skin data have been unzipped and stored in the advised manner. Playback can be started by touch click into the screen, only after this a standard controller appears (not the one determined in code).
2) Banner video (with dimension 1000x180) with „controller:none“ appears distorted on opening the document and plays in an irregular way (sometimes do, sometimes don’t). See most pages of http://creativedition.com
Who can advise me for solutions?
The skin needs to be loaded as an XML file, not a ZIP file, for HTML5 mode to work.