[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

[Pat Lockley]

Why not make it agnostic?

So you allow for people to use whatever library they like?



On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Julian Tenney
<Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> 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
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> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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