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JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

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Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

#11

What are the shortcomings of using JPlayer? I heard only positive reviews, and would love to get the flipside, if there's any.

i have experienced some issues when using internet explorer 8. the ready event of the player is not fired so you cant bind any media to it..

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

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post #6

Just discovered a week or so ago and have been using on a little side project. So far nothing but good things to say about JPlayer. Skins are easy to create, it loads well, looks nice enough. Great for prototyping with if nothing else. Though with all the good things about JPlayer, the codec issues and incompatibilities amongst browsers, I cannot say the same for HTML5 video in general.

If you're prototyping with JPlayer, what is your final product gonna be in?

I was thinking about using on a project, that's why I'm asking.

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

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post #8

I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)

Are you planning on serving (or streaming with a lot of buffering) FLAC audio on a public site? Why not re-encode and save everyone bandwidth?

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

#14
post #8

I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)

Audiogalaxy supports both those formats, and has an API you can use to play those formats as ogg using jPlayer, perhaps? http://www.audiogalaxy.com/misc/developer

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

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post #8

I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)

Are you planning on serving (or streaming with a lot of buffering) FLAC audio on a public site? Why not re-encode and save everyone bandwidth?

No, it would be for LAN use with a web-app.

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

#17

I have written a simple WebAudioPlayer around it. You give it an URL with some MP3 directory listing, it loads that and plays them all in queue. https://github.com/albertz/WebAudioPlayer E.g.: http://albertz.github.com/WebAudioPlayer/#http://28c3.ex23.d...

Very neat.

What i don't understand- probably to do with the jPlayer- is that it seems to know the length of the song before it has all loaded (because of the seekbar lengths), yet it only increases the time string as the file is loaded.

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

#19
I used this to make a simple player for my personal audio portfolio website, and it was super easy to use and reskin. I had trouble getting multiple tracks to play, but I just started messing around with jQuery, so I think it was a factor of that learning curve. Highly recommended. Once you get multiple songs working you can make an interface for adding or removing them as well, I would love to implement this as well. I guess the point of my long rambling post is use it because it works and it is compatible and awesome. Edit: You can also easily use the Soundcloud or Bandcamp api to stream your tracks directly to your jPlayer, which is super useful.

Re: JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

#20
We used JPlayer at the Facebook University Hackathon series this year, and while it wasn't always a joy to work with it was far faster than rolling our own. As others have said, super easy to reskin, handles cross-browser compatibility fairly well; overall a great boon to anyone looking to quickly get up and running with HTML5 a/v
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