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Description in playlist / listbar options - control of list bar


please help-

i am re-buidling my playlist database of content. it is working fine. i want to have descriptions under the titles. I see in the list bar options that this is an option, but when i enter a 'description' parameter in the next line under the title i get a code error. what am i doing wrong?

<script type='text/javascript'>
jwplayer('my-video').setup({
height: 460,
width: 1060,
listbar: {

position: 'right',
size: 300
},
playlist: [{
image: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show18.jpg",
file: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show18.mp4",
title: "RSN 18- Tourney Time"
description: "i want my description to go here"

},{
image: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show17_Thumb.jpg",
file: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show_17.mp4",
title: "RSN 17- 12.13.12"

},{
image: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show16_District_Champtions.jpg",
file: "http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/RSN_Shows/Show16_District_Champions(4x3).mp4",
title: "RSN 16- 11.05.12"
}]

});

</script>

http://www.boyne.k12.mi.us/RSN/website/default.htm

6 Community Answers

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

title: “RSN 18- Tourney Time”

Should be:

title: “RSN 18- Tourney Time”,

Missing a comma there.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

right.
thanks.

also, is there a way to control the size of the thumbnail? i notice they seem to be perfect squares...
also, is there a correlation to the size of the image and the size you make the player? should the ratio just be the same? does the player 'stretch' the size of thumbnail to size of player?

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

@Calc50

Since the listbar size steals effectively its size from the width assigned
to the player

That is to say, width = 1060 and listbar size is 300 the effective video display is 760.

I believe that the thumbnail images are sized relative to the listbar size.

try this, change the list bar size to 384 and view the effect; it will however reduce the video screen to 640 which is a good size anyways for the video.

I would also change the dimensions to 1024 x 480 and listbar size to 384.

why? both 640 and 480 are divisible by 16, hence plan your video size(w x h) to be divisible by 16. In your case, it is the better to be 1024 x 480 and 384

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

@Calc50 – Np. Yes, they are going to be squares.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

The descriptions are truncated when long, is there a way to display long descriptions for videos while they are playing?

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

There is not, sorry.

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