I am using slideshare player api http://www.slideshare.net/developers/playerapi to embed player in to my web application but it is embedding flash player and which is not playing on mobile devices(ipad). how can I get html5 player from slideshare?
SlideShare now has a HTML5 player, probably it's new judging by the time of your question and my current experience with it's oEmbed implementation.
It's still confusing though because I'm not able to find proper documentation on the new player.
I hope they update this soon.
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Since almost five years, we are developping a video player and its related embed page for sharing video content.
Today, the only way to embed on facebook our player is to use flash tecnology.
Many of our customers want to use our html5 player, But today we could not find a way to embed it.
I have seen that vimeo player and youtube player are embeddable into facebook; for us and for our future, is very important to make our player HTML5 embeddable into facebook.
One years ago, a stackoverflow user answered: "No, it is not possible to embed HTML" (Embedding a Custom HTML5 Player on Facebook)
Is still impossible?
Or rather, there is a way to embed my html5 player on facebook?
In 2016, it is a big problem for me to don't use my html5 player into facebook.
Obviously to solve this problem, I am available to a confrontation with a facebook developer...
I have built a web site for our student tv station and the concept is pretty similar to youtube. We would like for our videos to be playable directly in facebook when shared, with the videos themselves still hosted on our server and our stats being updated.
The player on the site uses videojs and is all working with the html5 video tag. There is also an embeddable version of the player that can run in an iframe. Ideally I'd like this to be used on facebook but don't think it's possible. This is what I've attempted at the moment with the og:video:type value set to text/html and og:video set to the embeddable player url and it doesn't appear to work. Here is an example page, and here is the embeddable player for it.
The only other ways I've seen is to specify a url to the video file, or a url to a flash player.
All of our videos are rendered at different qualities/resolutions and on our site and embeddable player there is a quality selection bar that changes the video url in the player. However it looks like with opengraph and facebook there is no way of giving it the urls to the different qualities or having the user pick the one they want on facebook, meaning we're stuck with forcing everyone to watch at one of the qualities. Is this right?
So then the only other option that appears to be available is building a custom flash player which has quality selection built into it. From what I can tell this is what youtube is doing. Is this the only option though because I don't want to build a custom flash player for Facebook to then decide in a few months that they're not supporting flash anymore?
I realise similar questions have been asked already but I couldn't find a definite answer and some of them were over a year old.
Thanks.
Facebook is currently trialing iframes with YouTube. Hopefully the support will be rolled out to everyone soon.
More info at this question: Embedding video player html5 iframe in facebook share like YouTube
After several years working with commercial and custom Flash video players, such as Flowplayer and jwplayer, I decided to open my work to html5. I like the idea of having a Flash impersonation of html5, so I tried medialements.js, video.js and jplayer. None of them are production ready and they all fail to meet my goal, which is playing a video on a webpage, desktop and mobile, live and vod.
Does anyone has a suggestion for a working web video player, apart from the commercial ones?
TIA
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I can get to what you are saying. Videojs is a leader in HTML5 video and considered state of the art by many though I think it falls short on some aspects especially for iOS/Android and Live streaming. Here is a list that compares some common actors of the market.
After much time playing with the different players available I decided to build my own HTML5 video jQuery based player. I learned so much while doing so and if you are planning on re-using it for your projects it will be much faster to tweak your own player rather than trying to build something up on a player someone else built. Now doing so requires you like JavaScript and are happy to deal with the cross browser testing. This article can give you a place to start. Digging in further would require you take on board the W3C spec.
Live streaming in HTML5 video is limited today: HLS for iOS and Android > 4.1 and coming in fast MPEG DASH (it has a JS lib for live and on demand here). If you want to cover a large audience for live video streaming you still need to consider flash.
I am helping to build a video based website. My client wants the website to be viewable on ipads/iphones. Therefore, I absolutely can not require the flash viewer.
One of my developers wants to use AS3 for scripting special features in our player. If AS3 scripting is used, does that mean my users must have the flash plugin?
Thanks!
If it's just about playing videos, then html5 based option would be great. But if the requirement is more complicated and the developer is more comfortable with AS3, then you can have an AIR app re-packaged as iOS app (that's a supported workflow from Adobe).
Yes, the users would have to have the Flash Player installed to view an AS3 flash file (.swf).
But your developers might implement an html5 alternative of the video player for iOS that doesn't require flash (which probably will be missing some of those special features) so the website might still be viewable on iOS devices.
My advice would be to simply ask them if it will work on iPad and iPhone :-)
I'm new to flash, but I understand most concepts of it and had great progress so far.
I was wondering how hard it would be to say download a youtube video and what components/functions I would have to use. I know its possible since I've seen an Adobe Air app that does it.
Take a look at the Youtube Chromeless Player!
This depends on what purpose you have with your YouTube application. Depending on what you want to do you can go several different ways
If you want to use the in-built flash functionality, use the flash API. http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/flash_api_reference.html
The best solution (i think) is to use the JS api, it has a lot of tweaking options for playlists, start/ stop function, cusumization (such as the chromeless player mentioned above). Available here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/js_api_reference.html