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Hi guys,

I'm a new JW Player Pro user and I simply want to be able to upload my video embed my video on my site (which I've done) but I also want to be able to provide a direct link to the video to particular clients. Where do I find that feature?

Any help is appreciated.

6 Community Answers

MisterNeutron

Best Answer 

In the "sharing" block, you would just enter the URL to the video itself:

<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("container").setup({
file: "http://example.com/myvideos/mydog.mp4",
width: 640,
height: 320,
sharing: {
link: "http://example.com/myvideos/mydog.mp4"
}
});

Someone clicking that link would receive the raw video file. The browser will either open it in a new tab, from where the visitor can just save it, or it will offer a choice between opening and downloading it. That's browser-dependent, and difficult to control.

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MisterNeutron

User  
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I don't think JW Player has the ability to do that. I suspect you'll have to provide the direct link outside of the player, with ordinary HTML.

robert

User  
0 rated :

You can use the share link or add your own button.

http://robertdev.influxis.com/custom/jw/social.html

Randy

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Hello,

You may be interested in the social overlay feature: http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1409823-social-sharing-overlay MisterNeutron and Robert are correct as well. There are various ways to achieve this.

Much success,
Randy

michael

User  
0 rated :

Hi guys,

Thanks for your help. I'm still a little bit confused, though. The example that Randy provided was awesome but it used a YouTube video. The video I'm trying to link to a client is a video that I've uploaded from my computer and it's not allowed on YouTube so I don't have a YT link.

michael

User  
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I probably should've mentioned that I'm using SquareSpace

MisterNeutron

Best Answer  User  
0 rated :

In the "sharing" block, you would just enter the URL to the video itself:

<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer("container").setup({
file: "http://example.com/myvideos/mydog.mp4",
width: 640,
height: 320,
sharing: {
link: "http://example.com/myvideos/mydog.mp4"
}
});

Someone clicking that link would receive the raw video file. The browser will either open it in a new tab, from where the visitor can just save it, or it will offer a choice between opening and downloading it. That's browser-dependent, and difficult to control.

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