Does JWP require Flash on the client? Driod? iPad?

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Posted: Wed, 2010-03-17 13:39 Mel_3

I'm asking if the JW Player is a Flash App since the iPad won't be supporting Flash... and the Droid doesn't currently support Flash... and I guess the iPhone doesn't support flash...

So if the JW Player is a Flash app that plays H.264... the H.264 video still won't play on mobile devices unless they will run Flash... right?

So the ultimate question is...

How can we put video on a web site so that it will play on smart phones like the Droid, iPhone and other such mobile devices? (and, hopefully, the iPad)

(And, we are looking for a solution that does not require HTML 5 as that is not fully deployed yet and will not be for some time.)

Thanks for any help.

Posted: Wed, 2010-03-17 13:59 Ethan LongTail

Yes, it is a Flash App. It will not work on the iPhone/iPad.

Posted: Wed, 2010-03-17 14:45 Mel_3

Thanks for the quick response.

M follow-up question is...

How then can one put video on their "mobile" website that will play on smart phones like the Droid and iPhone... etc And also play on devices like the iPad?

Other than putting it on YouTube's website?

Posted: Wed, 2010-03-17 15:13 Ethan LongTail

Most likely you would have to post a link to the source MP4 under the JW Player embed, so that way people without Flash can view it too.

Posted: Fri, 2010-04-16 15:34 ann

There is useful information here about adding HTML5 code that can be used to play MP4s on iPad, iPod, etc...and will fallback to a Flash player if HTML5 is not supported in the browser:
http://camendesign.com/

The only problem is that I want my users to view the video in the Flash player first as that has already been developed along w/ using captioning, which is a requirement for my videos. Can someone help me out w/ how I should code the page so that the Flash plays first and when it's not available, it will fallback to HTML5? Instead of adding the additional link, I'd like to check the browser first.

Thank you for any suggestions.

Posted: Mon, 2010-09-27 15:10 James huckabone

Don't you think it would be beneficial for your company to post the code for the aforementioned solution since this post comes up as the number one result for jw player iPad?

Posted: Mon, 2010-09-27 15:29 Ethan LongTail

@James huckabone - Please see - http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/blog/14331/jw-player-53-beta-integrates-html5-support

Posted: Fri, 2010-12-10 16:58 Marilyn Smith

I am trying the examples in the 5.3 download and cannot get the player to display on the iPad. It works fine on the PC and Mac in various browsers.

http://www.uchastings.edu/e/m.html

The code is

<script type='text/javascript' src="http://www.uchastings.edu/ipad/jwplayer.js"></script>
<div id="container">Loading the player ...</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("container").setup({
flashplayer: "http://www.uchastings.edu/ipad/player.swf",
file: "http://www.uchastings.edu/multimedia/PeterStarkHastings.mp4",
height: 200,
width: 312,
image: "http://www.uchastings.edu/media-and-news/news/images/PeterStark.jpg",
controlbar: "bottom"
});
</script>

Posted: Fri, 2010-12-10 17:25 Ethan LongTail

How did you encodde PeterStarkHastings.mp4?

Posted: Fri, 2010-12-10 18:40 Marilyn Smith

I didn't do any encoding of the video. If I enter

http://www.uchastings.edu/multimedia/PeterStarkHastings.mp4

in the iPad's safari browser, the video plays fine.

Posted: Sat, 2010-12-11 00:57 Ethan LongTail

Chances are, some of the JS on your page is clashing with the player. Can you put the player on a blank page?

Posted: Mon, 2010-12-13 12:34 Marilyn Smith

With the player on a blank page (or just removing the javascript that controls our navigation menus) we can now have videos on both the PC (all browsers) and the iPad! Hooray!!!

However, this'll cause some re-design or re-thinking. Thanks for helping to figure it out.

Posted: Mon, 2010-12-13 12:36 Ethan LongTail

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