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ARE THERE ANY CLEAR AND COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS !?!?

I've looked and tried to find an answer to HOW to install this thing in my web site.
The answers, explanations and examples I found were useless and more confusing than helpful!
I get the sinking feeling that JW folks are more concerned about making money than customer service!
Does ANYONE have a concise, precise and complete step by step installation example that I can follow please?
I just need to get a playlist of vids and a playlist of mp3's to play in a html box on my web page.
It would be preferable if I could get these files to play from my server and not from the cloud.
So far I have had HOURS of trying to figure out the alien language that the writer of the help files speak!
Please excuse me if I exude a little of that frustration over all the wasted time and effort because of all those badly written help files and poorly designed web site.

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jherrieven

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If you ping me an email, I'd be happy to help simplify things for you:

james[at]haiku[dot]co[dot]uk

James Herrieven

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MisterNeutron

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First, install the three JW files together on your server - jwplayer.js, jwplayer.html5.js, and jwplayer.flash.swf.

Here's a video playlist, with code: http://misterneutron.com/JW6videoPlaylist/

An audio playlist: http://misterneutron.com/JW6audioPlaylist/

More examples: http://misterneutron.com/

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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1) Download the self-hosted files from your account dashboard — look for the Get Your Player! link at the bottom of the page
2) Copy the files to your web server
3) Link to your self-hosted jwplayer.js in your HTML document — see http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1406723-mp4-video-embed
for more details
4) Add an HTML <div id='uniqueName'></div> so our player knows where to put the player — also documented in that article
5) Call jwplayer(‘uniqueName’).setup(); with your player configuration parameters — also documented in that article

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sirslippers

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HoWdY!!

Thank you kindly for your speedy replies!

1) James - I appreciate your kindness and offer of help and I will be tossing you an email ASAP ... This whole thing is starting to become a brain drain and headache maker.

2) MisterNeutron - I tried your examples and they were as close as I've ever gotten to working Self-Hosted. All that showed was a black square though, but I AM trying to play mpg files. I must do a file change to mp4 and try them again.
Either that or I will go with the OSMPLAYER that does EVERYTHING and is open source. It is not as popular as JWPlayer, but it does all the video and audio file types.

3) Todd Grunow - Thank you for taking the time to reply but your instructions and these links are obtuse and a waste of time because they are so horribly written and utterly confusing. Thankx but these other two gentlemen have more understandable examples, better communication abilities and seem to be more personable than it seems JWPlayer is.

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sirslippers

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addendum - James .. sorry I gave you the thumbs down --- it was a mistake and miss click. sorry!

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sirslippers

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Addendum -- oops again! ... I meant that to be a + for Mister Neutron too.

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MisterNeutron

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Yes, you do need to get your videos into the proper format - MP4 encoded as H.264. The quick and dirty way is to grab Handbrake, a freebie: http://handbrake.fr/

Just use the default settings, but also check "Web optimized." You can feed it single files, or an entire folder full of videos.

I think you'll discover that you have to do that no matter what player script you end up using. These scripts all pass the video to the browser's own <video> tag (possibly with a Flash fallback for IE8), and if the browser can't handle the video encoding, it won't work.

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wmeier

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What would be a nice thing is to have a PDF that is downloadable such that one is able to read the documentation off-line

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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We’re working on new training documentation, but you could always save the web page as a PDF for offline viewing…

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