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Description

Please read the contributing guidelines before reporting issues or submitting patches.

Code Quality Rank: L5

Monthly Downloads: 0

Programming language: JavaScript

License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

Tags: Video/Audio

Latest version: v7.2.7

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README

Flowplayer

website | demos | docs

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Minimal setup

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>
   <!-- flowplayer depends on jQuery 1.7.1+ (for now) -->
   <script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>

   <!-- flowplayer.js -->
   <script type="text/javascript" src="flowplayer.min.js"></script>

   <!-- player styling -->
   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="flowplayer/minimalist.css">

</head>

<body>

   <!-- player 1 -->
   <div class="flowplayer">
      <video src="my-video.mp4"></video>
   </div>

   <!-- player 2 -->
   <div class="flowplayer">
      <video>
         <source type="video/webm" src="my-video2.webm">
         <source type="video/mp4" src="my-video2.mp4">
      </video>
   </div>

</body>

API Samples

// listen to events on second player
flowplayer(1).bind("load", function (e, api, video) {

}).bind("pause", function (e, api) {

});

// work with jQuery
$(".flowplayer").bind("unload", function (e, api) {

});

Compiling Flash

Download Open Source Flex SDK, v4.5.1

export mxmlc=<PATH_TO>/flex_sdk_4.5.1.21328_mpl/bin/mxmlc
cd ./flowplayer # this repository
make flash

Reporting bugs

Please read the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md) before reporting issues or submitting patches.

Running tests

Our automated test suite is sponsored by BrowserStack. Thanks you!

Running locally

Tests are run on BrowserStack

Install dependencies: bundle install
Setup broserstack tunnel: java -jar features/support/BrowserStackTunnel.jar -f <your tunnel api key> /path/to/flowplayer/repo
Run cucumber features: rake username=<browserstack username> key=<broserstack automate api key> base_url=http://<something>.browserstack.com

License

[GPL v3 with an ADDITIONAL TERM per GPL Section 7](LICENSE.md)

*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the flowplayer README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.

flowplayer

The HTML5 video player for the web