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JW Player is a web video player with support for HTML5 video and Flash video, free for non-commercial use with commercial and enterprise licenses available. JW Player is supported across browsers & devices and offers complete JavaScript API control.

More information is available on JW Player's website. Technical documentation can be found on the JW Player Developer site. Or see the Support site for previously answered support questions/articles.

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Set Content-type of media files stored on Blob

We have a website hosted on Azure. It is media based, and we are using JWPlayer to playback media with HTTP pseudostreaming. The media files are stored on blob in 3 formats - mp4, ogg, webm. The issue is the content type of media files is set as…
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JWPlayer Javascript API for Android Webview

I'm trying to get JWPlayer to return an alert when a few specific events happen from a flash player playing a local video. If you notice from the code below, onComplete, JWPlayer should return an alert, which can then be intercepted by onJsAlert…
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JW Player Error loading media: File could not be played

We ran into a very strange problem with JW Player and really don't know an approach to solve it. JW Player shows the error: Error loading media: File could not be played sporadically across all browsers and platforms (sometimes it shows up and…
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Generate all the files (.vtt + sprite) for the Tooltip Thumbnails options of Jwplayer

What is the best way to generate the ".VTT" file and the jpg sprite attached with it for the Tooltip Thumbnails of Jwplayer (http://www.jwplayer.com/blog/building-tooltip-thumbnails-with-encodingcom/- ? I know how to make an image sprite with php,…
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Video "Streaming" vs playing off directly from Files

This might be one of most stupid questions but i still need to very clearly understand about Video "Streaming". Here i'm talking about the Media Files only. (Not "Live" streaming) Lets say i have happy.mp4 file. Then what is the way to go. (Or what…
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How do I stream .flv files from SQL database

I want to store .flv files in the database and not in the file system. This is what I can do right now: Successfully convert .wmv and .mpeg to .flv with ffmpeg. Store images in SQL Server and show them on my page with an httphandler. Same with .avi…
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How can I add a video and playlist to a page using HTML5?

I had been using the flash based JWPlayer 4 with the playlist option. Recently I upgraded to JWPlayer 5 which is claims HTML5 support. The player by itself degrades nicely on mobile devices that support HTML5 but not flash, however it breaks with…
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How To Extract .flv Stream from JW Player 5.1?

The problem is I've a slow internet connection, and the video doesn't buffer like in YouTube. Therefore I was wondering weather I can extract the url of the .flv file which is being streamed in JW Player and directly download it. Doing some…
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Fancybox overlay issue on ipad/iphone

On ipad / iphone, the overlay appears over the top of media in fancybox, that is the whole page is filled with the overlay incuding the content of fancybox. Any ideas how I can fix this? Also, I have jwplayer working in fancybox playing videos…
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JWPlayer for Fullscreen Background Video

I'm looking to use jwPlayer for fullscreen background video that simply plays in a loop as the background of the site. I'm testing this here, with moderate success in Chrome on Mac OSX (please excuse the size of the video file) -…
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"Start time" on TED video embeds

http://jsfiddle.net/N8dYL/ The goal i'm trying to acchieve is that when you click play, the TED Talk starts playing at for example 02:22 I've tried several things i know from JWplayer like video.mp4?time=02:22 but I couldn't get it to work on this…
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Crash on UICollectionViewCell with JWVideoView - Swift

A ViewController has a UICollectionView. One of the cells contains JWVideoView. The app is frequently crashing on prepareForReuse in this cell. There is no valuable info in the log. So I am having trouble figuring out the reason for the crash.…
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ColdFusion 11 - 500 Internal Server Error from Non-ASCII Cookie Character

In response to any request with a cookie containing a non-ASCII character, ColdFusion 11 appears to crash. IIS 8.5 returns an HTTP 500 Internal Server Error (blank white page). Steps to reproduce: Run the following in Javascript console and attempt…
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JW Player 6 seek and pause

How can I get JW Player 6 to seek to a point and pause itself there without losing the ability to seek while continuing playback on subsequent requests. For example, the following solution is not satisfactory because it pauses the player after every…
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Trying to implement JW Player on iOS

I am a newbi in JW and can't seem to implement to simplest player. Help me, please. I have created an html and put it in my project. in the same place with the jwplayer.flash.swf, jwplayer.html5.js, jwplayer.js My html file looks like this…
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