August 2011
Beginner
140 pages
3h 30m
English
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Video Players
There’s a wealth of video players you can download, ready to use. Some are created as plug-ins that you can pop into your environment. Others are libraries you need to install and set up for use in your pages. Some provide custom controls to play the video, while others also render subtitle or caption files associated with the video.
In Chapter , I covered two video players that also render subtitle files: Playr and the Leanback Player. Both players work with SRT, as well as WebVTT files. You can download Playr at http://www.delphiki.com/html5/playr/, and Leanback Player at http://dev.mennerich.name/showroom/html5_video/. The Leanback Player also has WordPress and Joomla plug-ins.
VideoJS is a sophisticated and polished player that can be used as a standalone player—or as a WordPress, Drupal, or jQuery Plug-in; an Umbraco Utility; or a Joomla Extension. It’s 100% skinnable using CSS, and includes predefined skins that enable the player to emulate well-known video environments, such as YouTube. It, like most of the players, also provides fullscreen video support. Not to leave any HTML5 video stone uncovered, VideoJS also supports subtitles (SRT only). You can access the primary VideoJS web site at http://videojs.com/.
Another subtitle-supporting video player is jMediaElement, a solid video player that also has excellent keyboard support. You can access the player at http://www.protofunc.com/jme/. Unlike most other subtitle-rendering players, though, jMediaElement doesn’t ...
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