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Multiple video formats for HTML5 fallback.

It would be nice to setup multiple formats for a player (H.264, Theora, WebM). If the flash player can be used, the H.264 video will be used. If the player falls back to HTML5, all 3 videos can be embedded in the <video> tag.

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Pablo

JW Player Support Agent  
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@Ryan -

You can do this by setting a levels block in your setup code. Here’s an example:

jwplayer('mediaplayer').setup({
    flashplayer: 'player.swf',
    width: 400,
    height: 300,
    image: '/thumbs/video.jpg',
    levels: [
      { file: '/videos/video.mp4' },
      { file: '/videos/video.ogv' },
      { file: '/videos/video.webm' }
    ]
  });



In Flash mode, the player will ignore the Theora and WebM files, but in HTML5 mode, it will insert all of the levels into the <video> tag as sources, and the browser will select a playable file (based on the file extension).

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JW Player

User  
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Thank you so much for your helpful reply. I guess I should have specified that I'd like to see this functionality on the WordPress plugins though. Regardless your reaponse is quite helpful for my videos posted outside of WordPress.

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