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Also, to shamelessly plug my own work: http://flarevideo.com http://flarevideo.com - Open Source HTML5 Video player (with Flash fallback).

by maccman 16y ago

pjscott 16y ago
That's a very nice player -- it's actually more visually impressive than most of the flash-based players out there. Two criticisms, though: 1. The full-screen button in the default theme looks like two arrows pointing together, which to me does not say "full screen". It says "make something smaller". 2. The scaling really slowed down my (slightly old) version of Chrome. I blame Chrome for this, but I just wanted to report the issue. Again, congratulations on making an excellent and useful piece of software.
- maccman 16y ago
  1. Yes, just copying the default mac quicktime/itunes controls - I agree though, a bit counter intuitive. 2. Hopefully soon Chrome will support the webkitEnterFullScreen API, like the WebKit nightlies - then it'll run great. Thanks
Heff 16y ago
Cool, I like the skin options. Let me suggest some help. FlareVideo doesn't play on the iPhone (at least not mine). Make sure you're using the baseline encoding profile for h.264. iPhone won't play anything else. In your example you fall back to Flash for every browser but Safari. You should probably have Ogg and WebM versions as well. You can encode to Ogg most places. Zencoder is probably still your best bet for WebM/VP8. You should also consider using the Video for Everyone embed code by Kroc Camen. Hope that helps. Nice start. I'd love to have your help on VideoJS. :)
- nailer 16y ago
  > I'd love to have your help on VideoJS. Why don't you message MacMann and talk about it? If you're both working in the same space there could be a lot of benefits to working together.
nailer 16y ago
IE6 doesn't fall back and produces a Javascript error (I'm at work and GhettoBrowser is our 'standard'). Works great in Chrome of course.

Also, to shamelessly plug my own work: http://flarevideo.com http://flarevideo.com - Open Source HTML5 Video player (with Flash fallback).

by maccman 16y ago

Also, to shamelessly plug my own work: http://flarevideo.com http://flarevideo.com - Open Source HTML5 Video player (with Flash fallback).

pjscott 16y ago

That's a very nice player -- it's actually more visually impressive than most of the flash-based players out there. Two criticisms, though: 1. The full-screen button in the default theme looks like two arrows pointing together, which to me does not say "full screen". It says "make something smaller". 2. The scaling really slowed down my (slightly old) version of Chrome. I blame Chrome for this, but I just wanted to report the issue. Again, congratulations on making an excellent and useful piece of software.

maccman 16y ago
1. Yes, just copying the default mac quicktime/itunes controls - I agree though, a bit counter intuitive. 2. Hopefully soon Chrome will support the webkitEnterFullScreen API, like the WebKit nightlies - then it'll run great. Thanks

Heff 16y ago

Cool, I like the skin options. Let me suggest some help. FlareVideo doesn't play on the iPhone (at least not mine). Make sure you're using the baseline encoding profile for h.264. iPhone won't play anything else. In your example you fall back to Flash for every browser but Safari. You should probably have Ogg and WebM versions as well. You can encode to Ogg most places. Zencoder is probably still your best bet for WebM/VP8. You should also consider using the Video for Everyone embed code by Kroc Camen. Hope that helps. Nice start. I'd love to have your help on VideoJS. :)

nailer 16y ago
> I'd love to have your help on VideoJS. Why don't you message MacMann and talk about it? If you're both working in the same space there could be a lot of benefits to working together.

nailer 16y ago

IE6 doesn't fall back and produces a Javascript error (I'm at work and GhettoBrowser is our 'standard'). Works great in Chrome of course.