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Flowplayer 5.0.0

155 points| AntonTrollback | 13 years ago |flowplayer.org | reply

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[+] dysoco|13 years ago|reply
Well, that was fast. However, I don't think deleting the pause button is a good idea, yeah: you can click in the screen, but some people might not realize that.
[+] TazeTSchnitzel|13 years ago|reply
I think people will figure it out. But it would be interesting to do some usability tests on this.
[+] TazeTSchnitzel|13 years ago|reply
Really sleek, very nice minimal UI. More "fast and fluid" than Windows 8!

Love it, certainly going to use it when I need a video player. It even has full screen!

Edit: Even better, it's responsive to browser width changes!

[+] mddw|13 years ago|reply
To make a <video> responsive, you only have to set its width to 100%... not a big deal.

But yeah, I love flowplayer, it has a nice js API. Too bad it's not IE6 compatible.

[+] tammer|13 years ago|reply
Agreed. It's all win; testing it on some pretty old hardware and it's really smooth.
[+] seiji|13 years ago|reply
How does this stack up to http://videojs.com?
[+] tipiirai|13 years ago|reply
VideoJS has done a pretty good job at promoting HTML5 video and giving a viable alternative for Flash.

Flowplayer is not just HTML5 video but common API for video - no matter what the backend is: the VIDEO tag or Flash (for older browsers).

This universal API is for both CSS and JavaScript. Same CSS rules or JavaScript methods apply for both backends. Think of implementing plugins or skins that work on all browsers and devices.

That's not all. A lot of features that were only there for Flash are now available for HTML5: cuepoints, playlists, random seeking, fullscreen, keyboard shortucts.. to name a few. For a full list of features please have a look at:

http://flowplayer.org/why/

Demos: http://flowplayer.org/demos/

Make sure you try with various browsers. Note: iPad support is unbeatable.

[+] phase_9|13 years ago|reply
Anecdotal, I know, but I found VideoJS to be a bit of a mess. From a code point of view, the player instance would not destroy correctly resulting in a memory leak for single-page web apps and IMHO the CSS was a pain to work with.
[+] mddw|13 years ago|reply
VideoJs is free (ass free speech), Flowplayer is not : it's a badgeware.
[+] degenerate|13 years ago|reply
You guys finally came out with a release that rivals JWplayer. Congrats! I switched from flowplayer to jwplayer when it started to get bloated/buggy in v3. Looks like I might come back for 5 :)
[+] erikano|13 years ago|reply
I tried to play the demo videos on my Samsung Galaxy S II (Android 2.3.5), both with Dolphin Browser v8.8.2 and the stock web browser, but it doesn't seem to work in either of them.
[+] TorKlingberg|13 years ago|reply
Same here. It does not work in the stock Android browser or in Chorme, but it plays in Opera Mobile. It seems like a very basic oversight. I suspect this is the reason YouTube is so dominant: It works reliably everywhere.
[+] anssip|13 years ago|reply
It forks flawlessly on iPad too, using the same controls as in desktop browsers.
[+] acdha|13 years ago|reply
Looks nice but I was really hoping for <track> support - based on some recent testing, it appears that currently only mediaelement.js supports both the Flash fallback and support for subtitles / captions.
[+] tipiirai|13 years ago|reply
Track element is coming. We thought it was not a blocker for a first release.

Note: I'm one of the developers of Flowplayer.

[+] liamgooding|13 years ago|reply
Congrats Tero and Anssi, this is such an awesome update! Being on the FP journey over the years has been great, and V5 proves that journey is still very relevant and very exciting!

Going to have a play with it this week for sure.

[+] deepuj|13 years ago|reply
Does GPL 3 mean that I cannot use it for in my commercial projects?
[+] tipiirai|13 years ago|reply
No restrictions. You can use it commercially.
[+] supjeff|13 years ago|reply
safari 6.0.1 on mountain lion: http://cl.ly/image/0d0V1B1C3V28
[+] davidcollantes|13 years ago|reply
No issues here, same browser and OS. It seems you have a problem.
[+] denzil_correa|13 years ago|reply
I like the clean design but for some reason by browser hangs up while scrolling through your site.

Safari 5.1.7 on Snow Leopard

[+] doctorpangloss|13 years ago|reply
The dolly shot (the rails shot) near the end stutters on Chrome 21 on Mountain Lion. I think it's probably always stuttering, but it's only really obvious then. Maybe cut the dolly shot?
[+] tipiirai|13 years ago|reply
We currently have an Amazon micro instance! We have static pages served with nginx. Thanks, we're studying these occasional 503 issues.