LongTail Video Releases the JW Player for
HTML5
The World's Most Popular Open Source Video Player Now Plays Video on
the iPad and iPhone
NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ -- LongTail Video
(www.longtailvideo.com), the leading provider of affordable, self-serve
online video solutions for web publishers, today announced the beta
release of the JW Player for HTML5. With this release, the millions of
web sites that currently use the JW Player will be able to play video to
all devices including the iPhone and the iPad.
"HTML5 video is quickly emerging as a competing standard to Flash for
video playback, particularly on mobile and tablet devices," said Dave
Otten, co-founder and CEO of LongTail Video, "We think it is very
important to extend the JW Player so that our million-plus customers can
deliver video across all platforms. The HTML5 video player now joins
our popular Flash and Silverlight offerings within the JW Player product
family."
Built using the jQuery framework, the JW Player for HTML5 includes
the following features:
-- Seamless fallback to the JW Player for Flash. Reverts back to the
Flash version of the JW Player in cases where an end-user is watching
a video from a non-HTML5 compliant browser, such as IE 6, 7 or 8.
-- Full PNG skinning support. Enables users to easily customize the look
of their player by adding any of the player skins currently available
for download from LongTail's AddOns library.
-- Robust JavaScript API, fully compatible with JW Player for Flash.
Makes the JW Player for HTML5 plugin extensible, allowing developers
to create plugins on top of the player to enhance its core
functionality.
"By including player fallback functionality and PNG skinning support,
the JW Player for HTML5 is a big improvement over other offerings in
the market" said Jeroen Wijering, the creator of the JW Player. "We are
very excited about this release and look forward to working with our
developer community to build out new features, including playlist
support, ad integration and analytics."
Today's release of JW Player for HTML5 follows LongTail Video's
recent announcement that it had acquired Bits on the Run, a leading
self-serve online video platform. Bits on the Run will be integrated
with LongTail's existing products, which include the JW Player, AddOns, a
library of plugins and skins to customize the JW Player and the
AdSolution, a self-serve video ad serving system.
LongTail Video is headquartered in New York City with an office in
Eindhoven, the Netherlands. For more information, see
www.longtailvideo.com.
Source: LongTail Video
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