Thanks for Jarisplayer
Do you know that there´s a serious lack of truly free and good Flash based video players out there? If you try to get one for a personal project and take your time to deep-study what you can get and what the conditions are you surely do.
Don´t get me wrong. There are a couple of products to choose from. The top dogs are Flowplayer and of course the good old JWplayer – chapeau Jeroen. Both are good and close to perfect. But – even if they are “open source” – they are not free at all. You are in fact limited in what you can do with them. I do not talk about copyrights. I talk about usage, environments and/or branding you choose. In order to break the chains you have pay for them. And I think this is absolutely OK. Good products like those are worth every penny and – like ordinary humans – programmers can´t live from donations and air alone. On the other hand sometimes even “worth the money” is too expensive.
As you might know Projekktor features a flash fallback. To provide this feature I began to write plain and simple flash components. One for audio and one video (don´t ask why I did not merge both into one – I am an idiot). Just to let you know up front: They where not very good. So, like most of the HTML5 video players with fallback out there I could have taken one of the projects mentioned above. But I didn´t want to. Why? Because I wanted the WHOLE project to be free for everyone to use in any way he or she wants to. What is all this free JS HTML5 video mess worth if only one single component of it – like, let´s say, the flash fallback one – limits you in the way you can use the software? I would say not enough. But maybe I am an idealist and maybe so is Jefferson González who writes the fantastic Jarisplayer.
Jaris Player offers what many users of Projekktor wanted to have as an option: RTMP support and flv-pseudo streaming for example. You can´t imagine how happy I was to find Jefferson´s project. He did a great job on his solution. And intentionally he didn´t include common “limitations” like hidden tracking of player embeds, watermarks or similar stuff. Even better: Jaris is still under active development.
So, is Jarisplayer better than other players today you may ask. I would say: Most likely not. You can´t beat a team of programmers working for years on a single player. But as I understood Jefferson Jarisplayer does not want to beat anything but wants to fill the gap that existed a frighteningly long time between professional commercial players and useless junk. What a wonderful and great idea.
So I would like to thank Jefferson for allowing me to add his work to this project and would like to encourage you to consider a donation for Jarisplayer.
Tags: flash, flv, free, player, rtmp
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