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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.
What about vast in both html5 and flash?
Flowplayer 5.0.0
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Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#42I 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.
Same here. It does not work in the stock Android browser or in Chorme, but it plays in Opera Mobile. It seems like a very basic oversight. I suspect this is the reason YouTube is so dominant: It works reliably everywhere.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#43You guys finally came out with a release that rivals JWplayer. Congrats! I switched from flowplayer to jwplayer when it started to get bloated/buggy in v3. Looks like I might come back for 5 :)
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
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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.
As I said it doesn't matter and we think this is an important feature.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
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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.
Sorry. Misunderstood your issue. Need to check this out with Safari 5.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#46I 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.
Same here. It does not work in the stock Android browser or in Chorme, but it plays in Opera Mobile. It seems like a very basic oversight. I suspect this is the reason YouTube is so dominant: It works reliably everywhere.
But not on iPads or environments where Flash is not supported. They have certainly improved here but definitely not reliable everywhere.
And obviously Android we'll make Flowplayer work on stock Android browser. That's a oversight from our part on the initial release.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
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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 wig…
This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo:
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#48You guys finally came out with a release that rivals JWplayer. Congrats! I switched from flowplayer to jwplayer when it started to get bloated/buggy in v3. Looks like I might come back for 5 :)
Welcome on board!
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
#49Well, that was fast. However, I don't think deleting the pause button is a good idea, yeah: you can click in the screen, but some people might not realize that.
I think people will figure it out. But it would be interesting to do some usability tests on this.
I just did one for you. It failed.
Re: Flowplayer 5.0.0
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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 wig…
This is a good one. So good that it's part of the next version. Here is a demo: http://flowplayer.github.com/demo/seek/
Hey, sweet! Thanks.
A couple issues:
1) The number keys don't work when in full screen mode.
2) Also the keys don't work at all if the mouse pointer is outside the video rectangle. (Is that a limitation of the web browser interface?)
It'd be great to have a few more keyboard shortcuts too. Left/right arrow keys to skip backward/forward 10 seconds? Keys for double speed, half speed, and frame-by-frame playback mode? Hit '?' to see a list of keyboard shortcuts?