Over the past several months, I have worked with both Flowplayer and JW Player as embedded FLV video players.
Why wouldn’t you just upload your videos to YouTube and use their embedded player? That’s a pretty fair question, as I think YouTube provides:
- An excellent player that your users are already familiar with
- A variety of options to control the appearance (e.g. you can disable related videos)
- High-availability bandwidth
Of course there are several drawbacks:
- Limits on length and file size
- Critical infrastructure is no longer in your control
- Their logo appears on your site
- Progressive download only (no streaming)
Let’s take a look at both Flowplayer and JW Player:
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