Hello,
We have jwplayer embedded into our website and we are finding more and more that people dont have flash or java installed and aren't being prompted in anyway to update or install these crucial components, and as a result they cant see our live feeds and don't know what to do. Is there anything we can add to the embed code that can prompt them to download these?
Thanks so much for all of your help
JW Player is very tolerant about specifying booleans and integers as if they were strings, but it's a bad habit to get into. True and false are booleans, not strings. In other words, the value isn't the letters t, r, u, and e, put together into a string.
As a general rule in programming, only strings should be quoted. So,
file: "http://example.com/video.mp4",
fallback: false,
width: 720,
stretching: "uniform"
You can put a message inside of the div that the player replaces, with a message to install. You also need to set the player’s fallback variable to false.
If you're using JW Player 6, and feeding it MP4's, the only users who need Flash are those running IE8, Firefox on WinXP or OSX, or Opera. All modern browsers just use their native video capabilities.
The exception is RTMP, which is a Flash-only technology. All site visitors would need Flash to be able to view an RTMP feed.
There is no Java in JW Player at all.
Please give us a link to your site.
Thanks for your feedback guys, the player version is 6 and we are mostly doing RTMP with fallback to mp4 whenthe stream is offline. This config is working great but some of these people either have an old version of flash or its not installed at all. The website is bargainsbeyond.com
<script src="http://jwpsrv.com/library/KcMWZuH8EeOpKiIACmOLpg.js"></script>
<div class="contentcontainer">
<div id='playerjxUzssOPWgxA'></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jwplayer('playerjxUzssOPWgxA').setup({
file: 'rtmp://urlmasked.for.security.com',
image: 'http://www.bargainsbeyond.com/assets/images/intro.png',
width: '635',
height: '360',
autostart: 'true',
controls: 'true',
primary: 'html5',
rtmp: { subscribe: true }
});
jwplayer().onError(function(){
jwplayer().load({file:"http://www.bargainsbeyond.com/intro.mp4"});
});
jwplayer().onComplete(function(){
window.location = window.location.href;
});
jwplayer().onBuffer(function(){
theTimeout = setTimeout(function(){
jwplayer().load({file:"http://www.bargainsbeyond.com/intro.mp4"});
},15000);
});
jwplayer().onPlay(function(){
clearTimeout(theTimeout);
});
</script>
<div id="bidnowpage"></div>
</div>
Put a message in:
<div id='playerjxUzssOPWgxA'></div>For example:
<div id='playerjxUzssOPWgxA'>Update Flash</div>And under:
primary: ‘html5’,
Add:
fallback:false,
Thanks so much for your reply Ethan..I adjusted that.. I did try to test on a remote server with IE 11 and the error I see is:
Error loading player:
No playable sources found
I'm guessing this is what some of our customers are seeing, I'm not sure yet how to fix that.. I know there is documentation on that somewhere any help would be great. But I will try and test on some other systems to see how it looks.. I also changed the primary to flash since its flash we'll be using.. Is that correct?
Do you have an example of where this is running?
Yes the code is live at: http://www.bargainsbeyond.com
fallback: ‘false’,
Should be:
fallback: false,
Ethan ,
That worked, I should have listened to you the first time, I dont know why I thought I could make the syntax like all the other entries in the code. Thanks so much man your guys are awesome!
Np
I have always used fallback: ‘false’, is this wrong. What exactly does it do anyway
This disables the player’s download fallback.
JW Player is very tolerant about specifying booleans and integers as if they were strings, but it's a bad habit to get into. True and false are booleans, not strings. In other words, the value isn't the letters t, r, u, and e, put together into a string.
As a general rule in programming, only strings should be quoted. So,
file: "http://example.com/video.mp4",
fallback: false,
width: 720,
stretching: "uniform"
Indeed.
