Current Release
This documentation covers the latest release of Islandora 7.x. For the very latest in Islandora, we recommend Islandora 8.

You are viewing an old version of this page. View the current version.

Compare with Current View Page History

« Previous Version 13 Next »

Overview

JWPlayer is an in-browser multimedia player made by Longtail Video. Islandora uses it to create players for objects using the Audio Solution Pack and Video Solution Pack, so that they can be streamed directly inside a user's browser instead of requiring them to download it to their own computers first.

Dependencies

Provisions

Downloads

The Islandora JWPlayer module integrates the JWPlayer library with the Islandora code base. You can get the Islandora JWPlayer module from the Release Notes and Downloads page.

The version of the JWPlayer library that works with the Islandora JWPlayer module is only JWPlayer version 6.12. This library is free for non-commercial use, but you cannot get version 6.12 directly from the jwplayer.com website anymore as they now support only version 7.x as their free version. This is not a problem, of course, if you already have the JPWPlayer version 6.12 on your Islandora server. If that is not the case, you will have to download  version 6.12 from the jwplayer github repo. The download will uncompress to source code that you will have to then build for your server environment. Note that you are also required to register as a user of this free library on the jwplayer.com website. When you receive email confirmation that your account has been set up, you will have access on their website to a "license key" and code snippets – none of which you actually do anything with in Islandora.

There is an easier alternative to installing the JWPlayer library: Islandora is also compatible with the video.js library which may suit your needs just as well as JWPlayer without the hassle. You can get the Islandora Video.js module from the Release Notes and Downloads page.

Installation

The process of installing JWPlayer (module and library) is broken down into the following steps:

  1. If you don't have the Libraries API installed yet, install, enable and set it up. This creates the "libraries" directory (e.g. sites/all/libraries).
  2. Download the source code of JWPlayer library from https://github.com/jwplayer/jwplayer/releases/tag/v6.12.0
  3. Build the JWPlayer library from the source code. 
  4. Place the 'jwplayer' folder into your Drupal site's 'libraries' folder created by the Libraries API.
  5. Register as a JWplayer user at https://www.jwplayer.com/sign-up/
  6. Install and enable the latest version of the Islandora JWPlayer module.

Configuration

Check the Audio Solution Pack and Video Solution Pack pages' configuration sections for more information on how set JWPlayer as a viewer.

This module has been updated to use jwplayer6. If you are updating this module for the first time since 22/01/2013 with an install predating that date your library will need to be updated.

  • No labels

For more information please visit https://islandora.ca/