Just came across the JW Player module for the jw player, long-tail video media player while exploring the swftools module which also includes a plugin for jwplayer4 although the version5 player can be placed in the libraries folder and is detected.

Haven't had a chance to experiment with it as other players needed testing first for audio only files.

I'm very impressed with the tutorial webcast creating a view using the jwplayer module, http://drupal.org/node/581470#comment-3691102.

Meanwhile, swftools has also developed some views support in the dev release with some discussion in that same thread.

It would be nice to not have two different modules and still have access to different players for different uses.

So, what do you think? Are there advantages to using the jwplayer module instead of swftools?

Can swftools use the full power of media player version 5 or will it need much updating?

Appreciate hearing your thoughts.

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JW Player commented

Hi izmeez,

SWFTools is probably more flexible in general, especially in terms of embedding things other than the JW Player. The real advantage of the JW Player Module is it's interface for customizing the player. It allows easy configuration of the various options that the player provides as well as easy access to the settings for a majority of the the plugins available to it. Note that we are also currently in the process of upgrading the module to support the 5.3 player which includes a new JavaScript embedder and API as well as HTML 5 support.

Hopefully this will help you in your decision.

Thanks.

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izmeez commented

@longtail_video Thanks for the reply. I appreciate how this module dovetails so well with the player, I guess I am wondering if there is any chance this module and swftools might merge at some point. Clearly the work you are doing is leading the way on some player features that may not be supported by other players but I was wondering if your experience would help improve swftools and give developers the benefit of one module that can then access different players for different media types.

Otherwise, I guess the question will become one of using both modules on the same site, which may work fine (I haven't tested this) but just involve different UI's.

Thanks.

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aiphes
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Is this module allow differents settings for multi jwplayer on a website ? i think about a page with a jwrotator image set to 150x200 and on another page and another jwrotator image set on 450x220...actually i'm using swftools but only one size setting is possible for all the website...

what do you think about ?

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JW Player commented

@aiphes

This module allows you to store multiple configurations of the JW Player. It also gives you the ability to customize each player at embed time. However, it only supports the JW Player and not the Image Rotator.

Thanks.

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aiphes
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arff so i keep swftools because i'm only using JW Rotator...do you no any way to have differents settings for rotator via swftools or other module ?

thanks

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JW Player commented

@aiphes,

It's been a while since I've looked at swftools. However, I believe they only have one configuration unfortunately. In fact that was one of the reasons we made our own module for the JW Player.

Thanks.

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aiphes
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why dont have made the same module for the jw rotator ? nobody use it ? the jwplayer can make slideshow like the rotator perhaps ?

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JW Player commented

@aiphes,

A module wasn't made for the JW Rotator as it is not nearly as widely used as the JW Player.

It is possible to get similar behavior in the JW Player by using a playlist of images and setting repeat=always in the player configuration.

Thanks.

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aiphes
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ok good to know, i'll try the jw player so.thanks

EDIT: ok my feedback after test, config swftools 6.x-2.5 and jw player 4.6.
display only the irst image of the playlist, autostart true...and repeat = always..what have i missed ?

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izmeez commented

@aiphes did you try swftools 6.x-3.0-beta4 or dev ?

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aiphes
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no try swftools 3.0...

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izmeez commented

We are using swftools 6.x-3.x for a few things and there are several issues that are resolved by that as you can see in the swftools issue queue posts. Don't know about your particular issue.