JW player stream .webm files

Hi again,

I saw that it is normally possible to play .webm files through JW player v6.
When I try to do that I get a “error loading stream, ID not found on server” on JW player.

Would you know if there is anything I could do to play .webm files?

Thanks again for the great support!

Thank you for your inquiry.

I actually had not personally head about Google’s VP8/WebM until just now. This article goes over it in great detail with JW Player:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/blog/12120/googles-vp8webm-and-what-it-means-for-you/

It looks like it’s not a well-supported format but JW Player does support it with its HTML5 player. If I remember correctly, s2Member uses JW Player’s Adobe Flash player with its s2Stream shortcodes, which means you won’t be able to play .webm files that way. You’ll have to use the code samples that JW Player supplies to play those kinds of files. Sorry about that.

Hello,

That’s ok. Will it still be able to stream from my protected bucket though?

That’s ok. Will it still be able to stream from my protected bucket though?

You can use s2Member’s URLs with JW Player’s HTML5 player, too. So yes, as long as you use the correct URL you should be able to play .webm files by using that player instead.

You might check out this page on info for that:

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/22644/using-the-html5-video-tag/

Thanks a lot for the help! I’ll give it a try right now :)

Just to clarify, the problem here is with the fact that Adobe Flash doesn’t support .webm files. s2Member will let you stream any video file from Amazon (or locally), but the player that the s2Stream shortcode creates uses Adobe Flash to play the file, so it won’t work.

It’s kind of a complicated issue. Based on the information in the article from JW Player Adobe will start supporting .webm files within a year so at that point it won’t be necessary to use the HTML5 player.

Hi again.

Im trying to use this code:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/jwplayer/jwplayer.js"></script>

<video height="270" width="480" id="myVideo">
  <source src="/static/bunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="/resolutionz/les-outils.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>

<script type="text/javascript">
  jwplayer("myVideo").setup({
    modes: [
        { type: 'html5' },
        { type: 'flash', src: '/jwplayer/player.swf' }
    ]
  });
</script>

I just wanted to be sure of what is the URL to my protected file? In the exemple above I used “/mybucketname/myfile.webm” but don’t seems to work…

Sorry about the delay in response.

I just wanted to be sure of what is the URL to my protected file? In the exemple above I used “/mybucketname/myfile.webm” but don’t seems to work…

You’d use the URL structure you can find here in your Dashboard at the top of the section:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Basic Download Restrictions

s2Member will use this link to connect to Amazon.

Alternatively, you can use the linkage here the same way:

Dashboard -› s2Member® -› Download Options -› Advanced Mod-Rewrite Linkage