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JWPlayer on Samsung Smart Tv


Hello,

Anyone has experiences on embeding JWPlayer into a Samsung Smart Tv application?

I have tried the next code but I only get to view the player but the video not plays...

Thanks a lot in advance

bc.. <script type='text/javascript' src='jwplayer.js'></script>

<div id='mediaplayer'></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
jwplayer('mediaplayer').setup({
'flashplayer': 'player.swf',
'file': 'http://content.longtailvideo.com/videos/flvplayer.flv',
'autostart': 'true',
'controlbar': 'bottom',
'width': '600',
'height': '320'
});
</script>

11 Community Answers

JW Player

User  
1 rated :

@Iker

I am not aware of such usage.

The question that come sto mind is what video format is support by the Smart TV

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

What is the browser of the Samsung Smart Tv? Does it support Flash?

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

Hey Iker,
Samsung Smart TV does support Adobe Flash currently. However, Adobe themselves has stated that they will not be supporting mobile and connected tv devices going forward. You should look into integrating with Samsung's Javascript API instead of rolling. No offense to Flash JWPlayer - I think they are good products. It's just not the right one for the connectd TV market.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

Hi I posted a new thread on this but it seems to have disappeared so hope this is OK to use this?

Bought a new Samsung Smart TV series 6 and tried out my embedded JW Player - http://www.otticatv.co.uk/streams/artprojects-player-02.htm . Everthing works great on my computers and the video is OK on the TV but the sound goes choppy in cyclical pulses (about 1 sec cycle) on the TV.

Uploaded the latest Samsung software and JW Player but no luck. The same movies uploaded to YouTube work fine. Watching the movies from my sofa is a revelation and definitely the future.

From this 2011 thread I understand it is an Adobe Flash problem but has there been any progress on this?

Any suggestions / workarounds gratefully received.

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

We have not ever tested this device.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

I've done a bit of digging around and think I've cracked my problem and perhaps (?) the others.

I originally thought it might be the JW Player as the same movie works on Youtube but not JW on my Samsung Smart TV. Of course when you upload to YouTube it recodes the video and this was the problem. YouTube uses the H.263FLV Video codec whereas I was doing my own FLV conversions with AVS Video Converter that uses H264/AVC as its FLV format default and also (surprisingly) its Youtube Web default. Everything works fine now on the TV but I will have to slog through and re-convert all my videos :-(

As I imagine JW users will in the main be doing their own conversions this might be a common problem in the future. So - encode as H263FLV. I contacted Samsung and they have no plans at the present to modify the codec.

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Thanks for letting me know.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

One other thing (at least in the case of 2011 Samsung TVs) - it only supports Flash 8.0 according to here http://www.samsungdforum.com/Devtools/Spec

This response is a little late to the party, I know, but I think it's worth adding just FYI - some of this Samsung TV info can be a little hard to find

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Ah, thanks for letting us know.

JW Player

User  
0 rated :

we have embeded jw player is one of our application for samsung, but the player doesnt run in full mode also its options like pausing and playing doesnt work? any help? video is playing fine in small mode.

Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Sorry, smart tvs are not an official use case we test for.

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