Hi,
I am using Safari 5.1.7 on Windows 7.
I am trying to get my player to run without flash in safari. It doesn't load and i see in the console: "No suitable players found and fallback enabled".
So I tried running your own demo page:
http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1406723-mp4-video-embed
And it also doesn't load a player and has the same message in the console.
Why is this?
Many thanks
J
It's because Safari for Windows doesn't have the ability to show MP4's without using Flash. It can't handle videos in native HTML5 mode, unlike Chrome, Firefox, and IE (and Safari in OSX, for that matter).
Safari for Windows, by the way, is a completely obsolete, unsupported browser. Apple dropped it a long time ago. No one is actually using it in the real world.
Hi,
Thanks for the quick response.
According to http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp 3.8% of the world are using Safari so it is being used in the real world.
You have no plan to support it?
Many thanks
Jeremy
Safari for OSX is being used by 3.8% of the world, and it can handle MP4's without Flash, just like Firefox, Chrome, and IE. Safari for Windows is not the same thing. It was abandoned by Apple three years ago, and no one is using it.
JW Player actually DOES support Safari for Windows - but like IE8, it requires Flash.
I don't understand what you want. JW Player can't make Safari for Windows HTML5-compliant!
Ok, my mistake.
Many thanks, you can close this.
...before u do close it, does jwplayer work on ipads and iphones since they run safari?
Of course it does. It runs on all current mobile devices. Those devices are all HTML5-compliant (none has Flash).
Of course, you have to give it a properly-encoded file - MP4 encoded with H.264. If you give it an FLV, you're out of luck - that's a Flash format, and requires Flash no matter what player you try to use. So, an FLV will NEVER be playable on a mobile device.
Or Firefox! ;o)
Quite an aggressive move by Mozilla, wasn't it?!
I understand all the clamoring for "Death to Flash," but I wonder what wonderful HTML5 solution the insurgents have for handling live streaming.
Shumway... ;o!
I'm not fully up on Netscapes alignment to the DASH movement but it would be convenient if they are ahead of the game in that arena.
