[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Mon Sep 17 10:26:41 BST 2012


Ah, OK, can probably live without the GA stuff.

We haven't got time to build our own player in the Xenith timeline, but I get the principle behind them: it's also one of those problems that only needs solving once, so a good gpl solution would be great at least for now.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 17 September 2012 10:24
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

I prefer jwplayer as it has event tracking for google analytics built in.

media elements was ok, but I couldn't make the GA tracking work with it (it is one guy working on it, so not wanting to criticise).

You looked at http://videojs.com/

You could also do a

if(document.createElement("video")){
html5}else{
flash
}

which is what they all do really

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Pat, what was the problem you found with  MediaElement.js?
>
>
>
> Fay has used the JWPlayer up till now to cope with all the HTML5 media 
> stuff. We need to use something. JWPlayer is CC-NC, which is a rubbish 
> license for us: we can't really re-distribute it in a way that makes 
> the licensing clear to end users, I'd rather find a GPL media player 
> that we can clearly redistribute; open source is even better.
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>
> The folks at JWP seem to think that a tuition-fee'd university doesn't 
> count as non-commercial, which is a bit of a showstopper because it 
> means we can't clearly say to people 'Yep. You can definitely use it'. 
> I've been in contact with JW folks for nearly a week, and I still don't know the answer.
>
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