I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site.
Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard
Flowplayer 5.0.0
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Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#32How does this stack up to http://videojs.com ?
What about http://mediaelementjs.com/ ?
Same as with videojs, you should compare at what Flowplayer can actually do: http://flowplayer.org/demos/ . There is a difference.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is important. However, most web videos today are not associated with captions and made us ignore this from the initial release.
I'm not sure I understand, why is that important? The way I read it is that whether or not they're associated with captions they still require subtitles if the company is registered in the "wrong" (I'd argue right) state and the the video contain speech.
Flowplayer Ltd is located in Finland but this does not matter here. What matters here is the feature set and how each feature is prioritized.
For the first release we picked the ones we thought were absolutely necessary to make a great product. For the next one we fill in the gaps. For some people captions are highly critical and we cannot please them with Flowplayer 5. For them we recommend our flash offering
until captions are implemented to the HTML5 version.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#34I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site. Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard
We currently have an Amazon micro instance! We have static pages served with nginx. Thanks, we're studying these occasional 503 issues.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#35I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site. Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard
We currently have an Amazon micro instance! We have static pages served with nginx. Thanks, we're studying these occasional 503 issues.
Uh ... well it is not a 503 issue but looks more a HTML5 issue to me. My browser works absolutely fine when your website is not in one of my tabs.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#36How does this stack up to http://videojs.com ?
VideoJS has done a pretty good job at promoting HTML5 video and giving a viable alternative for Flash. Flowplayer is not just HTML5 video but common API for video - no matter what the backend is: the VIDEO tag or Flash (for older browsers). This universal API is for both CSS and JavaScript. Same CSS rules or JavaScript methods apply for both backends. Think of implementing plugins or skins that work on all browsers a…
Actually video.js has had a common API/skin for html5 and flash for a while now.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure I understand, why is that important? The way I read it is that whether or not they're associated with captions they still require subtitles if the company is registered in the "wrong" (I'd argue right) state and the the video contain speech.
Flowplayer Ltd is located in Finland but this does not matter here. What matters here is the feature set and how each feature is prioritized. For the first release we picked the ones we thought were absolutely necessary to make a great product. For the next one we fill in the gaps. For some people captions are highly critical and we cannot please them with Flowplayer 5. For them we recommend our flash offering http:/…
mfjordvald is saying that the company serving the video can be in one of these "wrong" US states where captions are required. Does not really matter where Flowplayer Ltd is located.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#38I tried to play the demo videos on my Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 2.3.5), both with Dolphin Browser v8.8.2 and the stock web browser, but it doesn't seem to work in either of them.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#39How does this stack up to http://videojs.com ?
VideoJs is free (ass free speech), Flowplayer is not : it's a badgeware.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well the pause button has been around since tape players and VCRs, I think it's a pretty well established control that people will look for. Why should clicking the video do anything?
This has been a big debate at Flowplayer before the release. At the end of the day it was clear to us. Play/pause button must go. Majority of users find it obvious that pausing happens by clicking on the video. This happens on both YouTube and Vimeo which makes it mainstream. And when it's possible to remove an UI element we'll certainly do it. We want to make the player as minimal as possible and make the video star…
Speaking of controls, a request:
I want to be able to repeatedly replay selected moments in videos.
So, I hover my mouse pointer over the seek slider at a certain point in the video so that I can repeatedly click that point to repeatedly replay that particular moment.
But most video players (including Flowplayer) cause the controls to disappear after a few seconds, even if I just barely clicked.
This forces me to wiggle the mouse to wake up the controls right when I don't want to move my mouse because it's remembering a position in the video for me.
I would welcome any solution to this problem. A keyboard solution might work well. Youtube has keyboard shortcuts '1', '2', '3', for jumping to 10%, 20%, 30% into the video. I wish you could hit '.' or something to jump to the last position I set by clicking my mouse on the seek slider.
Also, I wish the controls did not fade away when I am hovering over them, using them.
By the way, Flowplayer seems to have a bug: if I attempt to hover over a point in the seek slider and repeatedly seek to that point, after the first click or two, it begins ignoring my seek request.