By drublue on

I know there are many video playback solutions out there, but for some reason the most widely used player (correct me if I'm wrong) doesn't really seem to blend into Drupal as much as it does with other CMS.

When I was on D6 I was waiting for the JW Player Module to get updated so that I'm able to use JW Player 5+... Never happened.
You had to stick with JWPlayer4 or choose another player.

Same with D7, over 12 months on the according board they've been stating a module update is "on the roadmap"....of course...nothing happened (yet).
So still no JW-Player for us. Or me at least.

I was also not able to find a working solution how to get the last JWPlayer to work in D7 by hand (if that's even possible at all). So I'm looking for folks who actually do use it on a production site and if they do could share how the implemented that player.

Why not just use another player?....I really like the functions provided by that player....HD Fallback (beside HTML5 fallback of course) ...Ad Sense implementation etc.

If there is another player that can pull off the same please enlighten me I'll gladly go another route.

I'd just either love to get it to work or get that JW-never-updates-the-Drupal-module Player out of my system once and for all :)

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rj commented

Try swftools, see this post.

--rj

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drublue commented

ok cool, thanks..there seems to be some progress with swf tools since april 3 ...looks like I can stick with JW5 after a long journey :)

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drublue commented

looks like there is no D7 version out yet so I'm basically facing the same problem. Still no JW-Player for me.

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marblegravy commented

You can also just roll your own 'dumb' player with cck fields and a custom tpl file.

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drublue commented

how so?...I was trying to find examples where this has been done. I mean I accomplished to "hand code" stuff using the JW player a couple of times...it must be possible to drop the files somewhere and just tell Drupal to use that to player videos right?

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rj commented

building off what marblegravy said, you could use the contemplate module to build out custom node templates for your JW content type, using CCK filefield to upload the videos...

--rj