What do you think the advantages/disadvantages are between jPlayer and the Kaltura (http://www.html5video.org/kaltura-html5/) player?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Grig <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Henry, > > I've been hot on the trail of a solid solution that works on iOS devices as > well as the rest of the HTML5 ready browsers. (WebKit,etc) > > I just got off the phone with a client who wants to see if I can control > sprites on top of a video clip. Do you know if it's possible to control > playback with frame accuracy? > > I'm about to jump into it by bootstrapping JPlayer (the best I've found) > into an OL app I'm working on. I chose JPlayer because I found that on my > iPad or iPhone, it plays back properly and gets the onfinished events even > when the device is in locked mode with the screen off! :) This is essential > to my master plan to write a streaming radio station in HTML. ;) > > Earlier builds of JPlayer didn't work, and it was obvious JPlayer was > actually working as expected, so I emailed the developer to find out what it > was... > > He told me that he discovered that it's very important that the <audio> & > <video> tags are not dynamically added and removed and that these devices > "don't act right" when they are not left as static elements in the page. > > My hope is that if you are building out media for HTML5, you'll be able to > consider the playback issues, including receiving the onFinished events when > the device is "sleeping". > > Also, I'm glad to help, and I have lots of real-life test cases to try it > out with. > > Cheers! > Grig > > -- Henry Minsky Software Architect [email protected]
