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From: Marcelo Terreni
Date: Thu, Oct 04 2012 12:56PM
Subject: JW Player Controls v. 2 (JQuery version)
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Hi, I'm trying to build a JQuery version of the very impresive JW Player
Controls Version 2, maybe the best accesible web video player available.
I'll be using JQuery because we already use YUI and JQuery all through
our sites and a third framework would be too much. Besides I'm trying to
provide a better non-javascript/non-Flash suppport (that was easily
solved, I'll send a link when everything is up and running) and change
the controlbar's "toollbar" role (while adequate, it may make things a
bit more difficult unnecessarily for "keyboard / non screen reader" users).
As far as I'm concerned people at OSU WAC and Webhipster LTD. had to
modify the captions / audiodescription plugins to provide some
previously unavailable JWPlayer / JS API communication. I detected
they've created a couple of controls for that:
|togglecaptions
captionstate
|but I wasn't able use them trough jwplayer(id).getPlugin("captions").
¿Any clue?
Thanks!
--
Marcelo Terreni
Educ.ar S.E.
Web: http://www.educ.ar
Ministerio de Educación
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) - Argentina
From: Ken Petri
Date: Thu, Oct 04 2012 2:44PM
Subject: Re: JW Player Controls v. 2 (JQuery version)
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Hi Marcelo,
As you know JWPC is a wrapper around JW Player. But it wraps an older,
pre-HTML5-capable version of JW Player. When we wrote JWPC 2, the plan was
to use the latest JW Player, but we gave up, as we are not Flash experts
and the architecture of JW Player changed significantly since our first
version of JWPC. We just re-used the old JW Player guts.
As you point out, we make a couple of calls that allow us to check state on
captions and audio description. In the old JW Player, this was a pretty
easy thing to do. We added a couple of listeners and callbacks to the code
and recompiled. Just couldn't figure out how to do this on the new version,
so we stuck with the old JW Player. Unfortunately, I don't have the old JW
source code we modified any more.
Also, there will be no new version of JWPC. We had a project going for a
while, but we ran into funding and staffing problems and pulled the plug.
To be honest, if I were going to tackle it again, I don't think I would use
JW Player. The JavaScript API has gotten pretty bulky. There are a couple
of good projects with accessible players out there. Forking either
Nomensa's player or the one in the WET Toolkit could be a good path, maybe.
And as far as general universal platform playability and features go, I
really like mediaelement.js. mediaelement.js is not terribly screen reader
friendly, but it's light and very nicely architected.
Best,
ken
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Ken Petri
Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Marcelo Terreni < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to build a JQuery version of the very impresive JW Player
> Controls Version 2, maybe the best accesible web video player available.
>
> I'll be using JQuery because we already use YUI and JQuery all through
> our sites and a third framework would be too much. Besides I'm trying to
> provide a better non-javascript/non-Flash suppport (that was easily
> solved, I'll send a link when everything is up and running) and change
> the controlbar's "toollbar" role (while adequate, it may make things a
> bit more difficult unnecessarily for "keyboard / non screen reader" users).
>
> As far as I'm concerned people at OSU WAC and Webhipster LTD. had to
> modify the captions / audiodescription plugins to provide some
> previously unavailable JWPlayer / JS API communication. I detected
> they've created a couple of controls for that:
>
> |togglecaptions
> captionstate
>
> |but I wasn't able use them trough jwplayer(id).getPlugin("captions").
> ¿Any clue?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Marcelo Terreni
>
> Educ.ar S.E.
> Web: http://www.educ.ar
> Ministerio de Educación
> Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) - Argentina
>
> > > >
>
>
From: Marcelo Terreni
Date: Fri, Oct 05 2012 8:59AM
Subject: Re: JW Player Controls v. 2 (JQuery version)
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Thanks for your feedback Ken. The options you provide seem very
interesting, I'll check them out. Anyway I think I'll give your JW
Controls forking a second chance, as we have several AD files from our
TV channels SAP system we can make use of, and none of the non-Flash
options seem to support solid AD technologies.
Thanks!
Marcelo
El 04/10/2012 5:44 PM, Ken Petri escribió:
> Hi Marcelo,
>
> As you know JWPC is a wrapper around JW Player. But it wraps an older,
> pre-HTML5-capable version of JW Player. When we wrote JWPC 2, the plan was
> to use the latest JW Player, but we gave up, as we are not Flash experts
> and the architecture of JW Player changed significantly since our first
> version of JWPC. We just re-used the old JW Player guts.
>
> As you point out, we make a couple of calls that allow us to check state on
> captions and audio description. In the old JW Player, this was a pretty
> easy thing to do. We added a couple of listeners and callbacks to the code
> and recompiled. Just couldn't figure out how to do this on the new version,
> so we stuck with the old JW Player. Unfortunately, I don't have the old JW
> source code we modified any more.
>
> Also, there will be no new version of JWPC. We had a project going for a
> while, but we ran into funding and staffing problems and pulled the plug.
> To be honest, if I were going to tackle it again, I don't think I would use
> JW Player. The JavaScript API has gotten pretty bulky. There are a couple
> of good projects with accessible players out there. Forking either
> Nomensa's player or the one in the WET Toolkit could be a good path, maybe.
> And as far as general universal platform playability and features go, I
> really like mediaelement.js. mediaelement.js is not terribly screen reader
> friendly, but it's light and very nicely architected.
>
> Best,
>
> ken
> --
> Ken Petri
> Program Director, OSU Web Accessibility Center
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Marcelo Terreni < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = >wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm trying to build a JQuery version of the very impresive JW Player
>> Controls Version 2, maybe the best accesible web video player available.
>>
>> I'll be using JQuery because we already use YUI and JQuery all through
>> our sites and a third framework would be too much. Besides I'm trying to
>> provide a better non-javascript/non-Flash suppport (that was easily
>> solved, I'll send a link when everything is up and running) and change
>> the controlbar's "toollbar" role (while adequate, it may make things a
>> bit more difficult unnecessarily for "keyboard / non screen reader" users).
>>
>> As far as I'm concerned people at OSU WAC and Webhipster LTD. had to
>> modify the captions / audiodescription plugins to provide some
>> previously unavailable JWPlayer / JS API communication. I detected
>> they've created a couple of controls for that:
>>
>> |togglecaptions
>> captionstate
>>
>> |but I wasn't able use them trough jwplayer(id).getPlugin("captions").
>> ¿Any clue?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>> Marcelo Terreni
>>
>> Educ.ar S.E.
>> Web: http://www.educ.ar
>> Ministerio de Educación
>> Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA) - Argentina
>>
>> >> >> >>
>>
>>
--
Marcelo Terreni
Tel: 11-5129-6524
Email: = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED =
Educ.ar S.E.
Web: www.educ.ar
Ministerio de Educación
Saavedra 789 - 5to. Piso (C1229ACE)
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (CABA)