Client Players
The client has many players to choose from, to watch live and recorded IP streams. Embedding Streams into a webpage is the most common way that a viewer is presented a stream, either through a flash-based or proprietary based player.
Flash Based Players
Flash Based Players were the most common form of player for embedding video into webpages, this was until the invention of HTML5 and other mobile based technologies. Flashed based players do not work on iOS.
JW Player
The JW Player for Flash v5 is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player. Its XML-based skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving.
FlowPlayer
Flowplayer is an Open Source (GPL 3) video player for the web. Use
it to embed video streams into your web pages. Built for site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses, and serious prog
rammers.
FLV Player
If you ever wanted to add video to your projects or websites, there is no easier way than using pre-built Flash video components. Our player is one of the most feature loaded components on the market and it was specifically designed to suit developer and designers needs. It provides a fast and easy way to add video content in just few steps. You can find detailed information in our Knowledgebase, as well as our video tutorials.
The name FLVplayer doesn’t limit our video player to FLV video files. Using our component you can deploy video players that support all of the video formats available through the Adobe Flash platform including, but not limited to, MOV, MP4, F4V, and of course FLV.
You can use FLVplayer for two different video delivery methods. Progressive download, which is the most popular and doesn’t involve any additional software / hardware or service, and streaming video using Adobe Flash Media Server technology. More information on both streaming as well as progressive video playback is available in our Knowledgebase.
Playing videos isn’t the only functionality we’ve included in FLVplayer. Go beyond simply displaying video on your site and push your projects to the next level. Customize the FLVplayer in look and feel, and give your website visitors and project end users the ultimate experience in online video.
HTML 5
HTML 5 is a new web standard that includes, by standard, video tags and a way of playing back pre-recorded video’s it currently does not support live streaming. There are two main way’s of placing a video on a webpage using HTML 5, the first requires 3 lines of code and the second which is more customisable, a HTML 5 Player. Here’s the code of option 1:
<video width=”320″ height=”240″ controls=”controls”>
<source src=”movie.mp4″ type=”video/mp4″ />
<source src=”movie.ogg” type=”video/ogg” />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
Option 2 can use JW player which uses HTML 5 as default but then also switch back to Flash if the browser doesn’t support HTML 5.
JW Player
The JW Player for Flash v5 is the Internet’s most popular and flexible media player. Its XML-based skinning functionality allows you to completely customize its look and its plugin architecture allows you to easily extend the player with features such as sharing, recommendations, searching, analytics and ad serving.