JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

http://www.jplayer.org/

by olalonde • 14 years ago

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pfarrell• 14 years ago

I've used JPlayer for some personal projects (e.g. https://github.com/pfarrell/pshare3). It's very easy to setup and use. I haven't gone as far as creating my own skins, but since it's all jquery and css, modifying existing ones is a no-brainer.

bzalasky• 14 years ago

This is a great solution for audio and video, I've used it on several projects. The docs are top-notch as well.

alexiswilliams• 14 years ago

What are the shortcomings of using JPlayer?

I heard only positive reviews, and would love to get the flipside, if there's any.

lb3• 14 years ago

i have experienced some issues when using internet explorer 8. the ready event of the player is not fired so you cant bind any media to it..

paul7986• 14 years ago

So what is the advantage in using this over say jwplayer? Don't we still need to prepare the video in different formats to target various browsers?

dpeck• 14 years ago

Just discovered a week or so ago and have been using on a little side project. So far nothing but good things to say about JPlayer. Skins are easy to create, it loads well, looks nice enough. Great for prototyping with if nothing else.

Though with all the good things about JPlayer, the codec issues and incompatibilities amongst browsers, I cannot say the same for HTML5 video in general.

swah• 14 years ago

If you're prototyping with JPlayer, what is your final product gonna be in?

I was thinking about using on a project, that's why I'm asking.

amurmann• 14 years ago

Can anyone say how this compares to mediaelementjs? They seem to be very similar. I liked mediaelement.js, but ran into massive problems when using it in a colorbox under IE8.

polshaw4• 14 years ago

I know it isn't the typical use case but is there anything similar that (also) supports flac? (or even wma?)

WiseWeasel2• 14 years ago

Are you planning on serving (or streaming with a lot of buffering) FLAC audio on a public site? Why not re-encode and save everyone bandwidth?

polshaw4• 14 years ago

No, it would be for LAN use with a web-app.

ellisd• 14 years ago

Private site over LAN or high speed internet are targets for web clients: https://github.com/Mach5/supersonic/issues/34

psychotik• 14 years ago

Audiogalaxy supports both those formats, and has an API you can use to play those formats as ogg using jPlayer, perhaps? http://www.audiogalaxy.com/misc/developer

mrjasonroy• 14 years ago

Love this thing, I've used it on a bunch of projects. The javacript API is great.

igorgue• 14 years ago

We use JPlayer here at Senzari (http://senzari.com/) and it's been a blast to use, very easy to skin and supports fallbacks (HTML5, Flash) for every supported file format.

My only issue with it is the progress bar integration with the flash player.

We reskinned and moved every single element of it: http://cl.ly/2s323p2a1a3D3I1f1H44

albertzeyer• 14 years ago

I have written a simple WebAudioPlayer around it. You give it an URL with some MP3 directory listing, it loads that and plays them all in queue.

https://github.com/albertz/WebAudioPlayer

E.g.: http://albertz.github.com/WebAudioPlayer/#http://28c3.ex23.d...

polshaw4• 14 years ago

Very neat.

What i don't understand- probably to do with the jPlayer- is that it seems to know the length of the song before it has all loaded (because of the seekbar lengths), yet it only increases the time string as the file is loaded.

tempire• 14 years ago

Does it read chapter titles via the track tag? I don't see it mentioned anywhere.

giolobato• 14 years ago

I used this to make a simple player for my personal audio portfolio website, and it was super easy to use and reskin. I had trouble getting multiple tracks to play, but I just started messing around with jQuery, so I think it was a factor of that learning curve. Highly recommended. Once you get multiple songs working you can make an interface for adding or removing them as well, I would love to implement this as well. I guess the point of my long rambling post is use it because it works and it is compatible and awesome. Edit: You can also easily use the Soundcloud or Bandcamp api to stream your tracks directly to your jPlayer, which is super useful.

nickbarnwell• 14 years ago

We used JPlayer at the Facebook University Hackathon series this year, and while it wasn't always a joy to work with it was far faster than rolling our own. As others have said, super easy to reskin, handles cross-browser compatibility fairly well; overall a great boon to anyone looking to quickly get up and running with HTML5 a/v

lupin-binb• 14 years ago

I've used JPlayer as a cross-browser audio player in a small project (https://github.com/lpinca/binb). The javascript APIs are very well made.

fr0ggerz• 14 years ago

As one of the developers of jPlayer - it's great to see this discussion. We're a building up the motivation to create a new release and we'd be interested in hearing any ideas the HN community has.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups&pli=1#!topic...

(Comment here or in the group).

PS Little known fact - pandora.com uses jPlayer or at least it used to when I last used a VPN to check it :)

JPlayer : HTML5 Audio & Video for jQuery

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