JW FLV Media Player 3.14 Now Available
By: Stefan Richter
If you haven’t heard of the JW FLV Media Player yet then you must have been offline for the last year or two. It is is without doubt the most widely used Flash Video player on the net and best of all it’s open source and free to use for non commercial projects. A Creative Commons License starts at a mere 20 Euros.
Highlights of the most recent update include:
1. MP4 (H.264) mimetype detection in playlists.
2. Automatic MP4 / FLV selection based upon plugin version with the “fallback” flashvar.
3. Better scaling and positioning of the “recommendations” screen.
4. Lots of bugfixes, notably with the often-appearing “activity” icon and with the javascript API.
The JW FLV Media Player is built with Adobe’s Flash is an easy and flexible way to add video and audio to your website. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player can handle (FLV, but also MP3, H264, SWF, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports RTMP and HTTP (Lighttpd) streaming, RSS, XSPF and ASX playlists, a wide range of flashvars (variables), an extensive javascript API and accessibility features.
Check out the JW FLV Media Player.
