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JW Player Module Advanced 1.5.2 , Changelog non-exhaustive :

^ Upgrade to the new Adsolution Channel Code

This is a Player Module Advanced used to show audio and video playlist.

Works with Joomla 1.5 Native.

The flashplayer is based on JW FLV Media Player 4.6 who was created by longtailvideo.com, JoomlaRuleZ is an official Reseller of JW.
The license price that we negociate with our partners is the same of Longtail but include our Advanced Version of our Plugin.
By this way you will have an unbranded player, It is not the case of all the other module or plugin using this player that you can find on the JED !!

The license is only need for commercial website.

All LongTail Video products require licenses when used commercially, Examples of commercial use include :

(i) websites with any advertisements
(ii) websites owned or operated by corporations
(iii) websites designed to promote other products, such as a band or artist
(iv) products (e.g. a CMS) that bundle LongTail products into its offering.

JW FLV Player 4.6 Official Resseler, Unbranded player !
What's new in Version 4.6 ?

• Automated Bitrate Switching
• CS4 Skin Support
• Improved Stability

Changelog

* -> Security Fix
# -> Bug Fix
+ -> Addition
^ -> Change
- -> Removed
! -> Note

External RSS Link (ASX, ATOM, RSS - iTunes, RSS - Media, SMIL, XSPF)

• ASX feeds (example)
• ATOM feeds with Media extensions (example)
• RSS feeds with iTunes (example) extensions and Media extensions (example).
• Basic SMIL feeds (example)
• XSPF feeds (example)
• Youtube Link and Playlist (example, FAQ)
• NEW !! Automated Bitrate Switching (example, FAQ)

Single File Support Video/Audio Files (FLV, MP3/MPEG, H.264/MP4, JPG, PNG et GIF)

• Video in FLV and H.264/MP4 format.
• Audio in MP3 and AAC format.
• Images in JPG, GIF and PNG format.

Dynamic Playlist Item Start according to specific Content ID :
Assign One Article/Section/Category to an Specific Start-Item in a playlist generate By an XML link.

(Please Read the FAQ for more explanation)

Playlist Editor, 1 to 5 items for the Playlist Editor, including settings for each one. :

• Author (Author of the video, shown in the display or playlist.)
• Assign One or more Article/Section/Category to an Specific Start-Item.
• Captions.
• Title (Title of the video, shown in the display or playlist.)
• Image (location of a preview image; shown in display and playlist.)
• Tags (Keywords associated with the media file.)
• RTMP/HTTP Server (Location of an rtmp/http server instance to use for streaming. Can be an RTMP application or external PHP/ASP file. More info here.)
• Start (Position in seconds where playback has to start. Won't work for regular (progressive) videos, but only for streaming (HTTP / RTMP).)
• Description (Text description of the file.)
• Link (Url to an external page the display, controlbar and playlist can link to.)
• Duration (Duration of the file in seconds.)
• Type (This is determines what type of mediafile this item is, and thus which model the player should use for playback. By default, the type is detected by the player based upon the file extension. If there's no suiteable extension or the player detects the type wrong, it can be manually set.)

• Sort by date, alphabetical, random.
• Assign automaticly thumbnail file (jpg, png, gif) with audio/video file (flv, mp3, mp4, m3u) associate (same name).
• Assign defaut thumbnail (or not) with file with no thumbnail associate.
• Assign duration for image file, useful for a playlist with a lot of picture alone like gallery.
• Occurence filters for analyse name file for generate track number, title, description and author.
• Assign One Article/Section/Category to an Specific Start-Item.
• Automatic Captions(caption file must be ahve same name of the stream file).

List Of RTMP Server Support (non-exhaustive), Setting the flashvar type=rtmp in the player:

• Wowza Media Server
• Flash Media Server
• Red5 server
• Highwinds , type=highwinds
• VDO-X , type=vdox
• ...

List Of HTTP Server Support (non-exhaustive), Setting the flashvar type=http in the player:

• H264 streaming module
• mod_flv_streaming module, type=lighttpd
• XmooV PHP
• Bitgravity, Bitsontherun, type=bitgravity
• Edgecast, type=edgecast
• Limelight
• ...

NEW!! RTMP General Settings/Flashwars

• Prepend, The player will figure out by itself if it needs to strip the .flv extension off the file, or if it needs to prepend a mp4: or mp3: string to load the file. this behaviour can be skipped by setting the rtmp.prepend=false flashvar.
• Load Balance, Most frequently used RTMP functionality (such as 302 redirects, the getstreamlength call and Wowza's secureToken) is built into the player. In addition to this, the player supports loadbalancing with XML files. This is used by e.g. the Highwinds and VDO-X CDNs. Instead of loading the video, the RTMP model presumes that the file flashvar is actually an intermediate SMIL file, which is then loaded and parsed to retrieve the actual RTMP streamer and file. turn this on by adding the flashvar rtmp.loadbalance=true.
• Subscribe, A special RTMP case is the live broadcast through the Akamai or Limelight networks. These CDNs use a stream subscription mechanism for load balancing. This is supported by the player, by setting the type flashvar to fcsubscribe. The regular file and streamer flashvars are still needed. you can also set the flashvar type to rtmp and rtmp.subscribe to true (semantically nicer and 5.x compatible).

Plugin support LongTail's AdSolution, allows you to run pre-roll, overlay mid-roll, and post-roll advertisements in your media player. (Please Read the FAQ for more explanation)
Needs special registration here : AdSolution.longtailvideo.com

Add premium Ads Support for Plugin Adsolution, The Premium ads is only required for publishers who are interested in running premium ad tags from partners like Google and ScanScout.

Module support Viral 2.0, a video distribution plugin, supports four main functions: embed, link, Infos, and recommendations. It unobtrusively allows the user to share the video they are watching and see recommended videos from the publisher. (More powerful than the plugin Sharing)

Plugin support RateIt, allows people to rate your videos within the body of the player.

Plugin support TipJar, allows you to receive donations on your Paypal account.

Plugin support Google Analytics Pro, This plugin for the JW Player is designed to help you understand how well your video content is performing online.

Documentation From Longtail : (Quick Start Guide) on Google Analytics Pro and then a longer (User Guide) (both are PDFs).

Plugin support HD, This plugin implements an HD quality toggle in the controlbar. An icon is shown to do the toggle, and the value is saved as a cookie. This plugin only works for single files or the first file of the playlist editor.

Plugin support Sharing, This plugin adds sharing functionalities to the player. Either through the dock or through the controlbar, the plugin offers links to two screens:

• In the embed screen, an embed code for the specific video can be copy-pasted.
• In the share screen, a link to thesite for this specific video can be copy-pasted. This screen also offers shortcuts for posting this link to: Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, An email message

Module support Captions, This plugin displays closed captions on top of the video. These captions can come from an external file (in Timedtext or Subrip format) or as metadata from the video itself (as MPEG-4 Timedtext or Captionate events). The plugin will place a button in the controlbar. the plugin will place the button in the dock (if dock=Yes is set).

(Please Read the FAQ for more explanation)

Module support Revolt, This plugin displays some cool visualizations for audio file playback. (Be careful it will display a black screen if the file stream is not an audio file !!)

NEW !! Module support Flow, The Flow plugin provides a slick, 3D animation for users to flip through your playlist items. The plugin automatically grabs thumbnail images from any playlist and renders them three-dimensionally in a row. Users can navigate through the playlist by clicking on a thumbnail image or using the left/right arrow keys and space bar to select items. )