[Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

[Julian Tenney]

http://praegnanz.de/html5video/

MediaElement doesn't do playlists; video.js isn't the best for accessiblility (keyboard control wins out); a ton of the players here are built using jwplayer.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tenney Julian 
Sent: 17 September 2012 10:34
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

Sure, but we need to redistribute something to get people up and running, and need to be sure of the licensing implications for our users, i.e. there are no questions about whether they can / can't do this / that

-----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 10:31
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: HTML5 Media PLayers

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.
>
> -----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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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