I own/run a membership site and I am considering removing all downloads and only allowing members to view video on the site.
I have been using an older version of Flowplayer Flash and I am seeing issues with some people not being able to play videos.
I have tried testing Flowplayer HTML5 and I can’t get everything to work correctly, I just tried JW Player 6 and it seems to work nicely on everything but I am reading that they don’t allow adult on some of their services? As I am running a membership site I have no interest in running ADS on my site. I think I would just need the $99/yearly license?
I would like feedback. Please tell me your thoughts and also if there is another player I should really consider please chime in.
ADDITIONALLY: I think the best thing to do is re-encode all my teasers and full length streaming videos to H.264 MP4 files BUT I don’t know what a nice stable good quality encoding profile would be. I am currently using Adobe Media Encoder.
I think this could be a very valuable thread if people that have good knowledge of this will participate.
I don’t run membersite but I do a lot of video as an affiliate. (My own edits mostly) I use JW Player and have mp4 version and webm version, ffmpeg to convert, default to HTML5. Nothing out there beats JW with pseudo-streaming, Flow is a nightmare to set up at least on Wordpress. You need nginx configured with pseudo streaming, not apache if you can avoid it.
Anyway it’s too easy to download it from any players, just one plugin and all your videos in my hdd
For MP4
ffmpeg version 0.7.13
with -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -threads 0 -profile baseline
baseline - allow watch MP4 at all old devices
Switched from JW Player to Flowplayer 5 because JW player have bad support for Android. Also JW Player addons are no longer allowed for use on porn sites.
Lots of user complaints when using JW Player, no complaints after switching to Flowplayer 5.
However, Flowplayer 5 documentation is lacking and setup can be difficult.
Does anyone know if there is a WP plugin that can embed Flowplayer 5 using HTML5?
I didn’t really like the JW Player’s own plugin, and like Bjorn says, the support for android phones is not good.
[QUOTE=Ben;130790]Does anyone know if there is a WP plugin that can embed Flowplayer 5 using HTML5?
I didn’t really like the JW Player’s own plugin, and like Bjorn says, the support for android phones is not good.[/QUOTE]
Yes you can still use the player itself, for now at least.
But just be aware that it’s support of Android devices is terrible. Androids already count for 10% of the market, which includes a lot of different tablets, smaller laptops and mobiles. I spoke to them about the Android issues and they just told me to make my own fix through Java or workaround and blamed it on Android. The player works very well in normal browsers though.
Here’s a simple free solution I only discovered recently, Video.js
It’s a lightweight HTML5 player with HTML/CSS skin but also has a tiny Flash fallback player just in case. Been testing it on several devices. Works fine for all mine, but I’d like to hear if anyone has had problems?
