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I had a question about the mobile player. I am using the newest Android Phone OS v 2.3 gingerbread. The phone also has an Adobe Flash plugin installed. For some reason, the phone is only using the HTML version of the player, independent of the setting I have set in the MC JW Plugin. When I press the play button, the song is launched into a new media window and starts playing. When finished playing it just repeats.
I have tested the flash capabilities of the phone on other sites using the JW player and it works fine on both audio and video. Are there settings I may be missing to disable HTML5 when using android? Or is it possible (when using HTML5) that the songs can play on the same page without launching into another window to play.
One more thing... why does the player's skin change when the HTML version is used? From my understanding (from http://www.longtailvideo.com) the player should be the same regardless of the standard implemented?
I have tested the flash capabilities of the phone on other sites using the JW player and it works fine on both audio and video. Are there settings I may be missing to disable HTML5 when using android? Or is it possible (when using HTML5) that the songs can play on the same page without launching into another window to play.
One more thing... why does the player's skin change when the HTML version is used? From my understanding (from http://www.longtailvideo.com) the player should be the same regardless of the standard implemented?
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0hello!
sorry about that: HTML5 is used for all mobile devices, no matter what.
you can change this very easily:
open /plugins/muscolplayers/jwplayer.php
line 39:
elseif(stripos($agent, 'Android')) $html5 = true ;
change to
elseif(stripos($agent, 'Android')) $html5 = false ;
and the flash player will show up for Android.
2) HTML5 player by jwplayer is, today... well: rubbish. it does not include playlist functions whatsoever, so it is absolutely useless for Music Collection. in their site, they say that all the functions will come to the HTML5 version everntually, but right now it is a very limited player.
that's why I had to skip the HTML5 version of Jwplayer, and instead built my own code for HTML5 player. so the HTML5 player you see is NOT constructed by JWplayer, it is just a plain HTML5 player, enhaced with some JavaScript to allow playlists in Music COllection, etc.
so NO skins for HTML5 player, unfortunately. not until they improve the HTML5 version of Jwplayer...
(you can read all this I'm talking about in their site)
Germi -
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0Most smart phones don't support flash that is probably why it is defaulting back to html5.
On a side note, even if Germi had used the default html5 player they provided it would not have shown the skin. I looked at longtailvideo.com and checked out their skins and none of the ones I saw supported html5 (I only bothered looking at the top 10). I would suggest posting on their website to see what can be done to make an html5 skin or to suggest that they extended the skinning support or the current skins to work on their html5 mode.
The other problem is that even though html5 is starting to get some support it is far from a set standard and very much in it's infancy. Hopefully with us starting to see more smart phones and tablets using it as well as some early web browser limited support, we might see the spec take off.
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