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How to identify that player is Flash or HTML5 player?

I used following solution to embed HTML5 player in my JavaScript program.

This one is supposed to play in flash mode: www.streaming.co.uk/sam/JWplayer_prototype/Captions_Flash_srt.htm
This one is supposed to work in html5 mode: www.streaming.co.uk/sam/JWplayer_prototype/Captions_html5_srt.htm

Now if I right click on video I can see one of them shows About JW Player link and Flash version, but other one with html5 priority only shows About JW Player link and does not show Flash version.

So how do I identify that if second link given is actually playing video in HTML5 player?

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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If the right-click box shows the Flash version, then the player is in Flash mode. If the box does not say anything about Flash, then our player is in HTML5 mode. You should also see that the HTML5 dialog box looks different than the Flash mode box.

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amar.pawar

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Thanks Todd.
I also verified Flash and HTML5 players by disabling/enabling Flash from browser.

As you mentioned, I could not understand difference between Flash and HTML5 dialog. Can you provide more information on it?
So that I can get more clarification on it.

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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In JW6 (you are using 6.6 but 6.12 is the most updated version) the right-click dialog box while in Flash mode will appear to be like a standard contextual menu in your operating system. In HTML5 mode, the box is rendered as an HTML5 element and should have a different border and just look completely different than the Flash box.

In JW7, both elements are rendered in HTML5. When in Flash mode, our player will indicate the player version and the Flash version number. When in HTML5 mode, only the player version number is reported.

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test-automated+JW

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Thanks Todd.

That solves my query.

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amar.pawar

User  
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Thanks Todd.

Now I am able to identify the player.

Thanks

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Todd

JW Player Support Agent  
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You’re welcome.

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