rtmp and html5

JW Player — Apr 04, 2014 09:11AM EDT

The new 5.10 player supports html5 for apple devices. All my embedded files wirk fine. You suggest ti add

'modes': [ {type: 'flash', src: 'player.swf'}, { type: 'html5', config: { 'file': '/videos/sintel.mp4', 'provider': 'video' } }, { type: 'download', config: { 'file': '/videos/sintel.mp4', 'provider': 'video' } } ]

to my current embed code. everytime I do this, the rtmp does not play on the regular website. Any suggestions?

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Link?

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

This is the link:

telejay.com/index.php/by-country/33-canada/48-city-news-toronto-hd

I have removed

'modes': [ {type: 'flash', src: 'player.swf'}, { type: 'html5', config: { 'file': '/videos/sintel.mp4', 'provider': 'video' } }, { type: 'download', config: { 'file': '/videos/sintel.mp4', 'provider': 'video' } } ]

because it wont play when added. Any other way to make it html5 applicable?

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

You need to add the modes block back. HTML5 doesn’t support RTMP, so you need the modes to fail back to a file that HTML5 can actually play. Please add it back, and I will troubleshoot why it is not working when you add it…

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

I added the modes block back. Now it works on the website... have no idea what I did wrong the first time.

But anyway, it still does not play on Apple devices.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Glad that works.

Well yes, it doesn’t work because you are pointing at this file for html5/download – http://telejay.com/videos/sintel.mp4

Sintel is our sample video. You need to actually point to an actual MP4 file on your server for the modes fallback to work correctly.

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Awww, thanks!!! My brain works slow today...

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

I am looking to do this with the new jw player 6. I would like to have an rtmp stream for primary and then add the htm5 secondary with a m3u8 live stream

Please see go.thechurchonline.com/jwplayer.html

Thanks!

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Modes no longer works in jw6, see this doc – http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/28834/migrating-from-jw5-to-jw6

You can’t use jw5 variables in a jw6 setup.

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JW Player

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Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Thanks for the quick response, I have been reading the fourms and documents for hours and must be missing it. in a jw6 setup can i have a primary stream as rtmp and an html5 fallback stream using an http:// m3u8 stream?

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

I was able to get it, thank you!

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Great, np!

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JW Player

User

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

Could you post the solution to the JW6 setup for RTMP/HTML5 support.

I'm currently using version 5.10 and my setup works with flash but is buggy with html5 native.

Sadly, I do not have a link as the system is in dev and there is no exposing link to the web.

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Ethan Feldman

JW Player Support Agent

Apr 04, 2014 12:14PM EDT 0 rated :

You just need set up the player, and provide two sources, one rtmp, one html5 file.

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