New version of Flow Player

[mateo360]

Hello folks,
Is there any way I can update the old Flow Player 2 used in Powerpress with the last version 5.0 ?
And still using Powerpress of course...
You can find my music podcast here
Thanks

[angelo]

IS FlowPlayer 5 licensed like FlowPlayer Classic? Version 3+ was made into shareware, you had to read the fine print to see it was no longer open source. It needs to be GPL compliant in order for us to include it in a plugin hosted on WordPress.org. It should not have FlowPlayer advertising in the player like version 3+ does, implying that users need to buy it.

[mateo360]

Well the free version 5.0 is under GPL 3 license (http://flowplayer.org/license/) and should be ok with Powerpress license
Looks only like u can't remove the Flowplayer logo
I don't know about the ad...
Looks possible, right ?

[angelo]

I will look but just becaue someone claims its GPL doesn't mean it is, and that was the problem with the newer versons of FlowPlayer. And if the logo can be clicked and goes to a page on flowplayer web site soliciting money then we will not include it.

[mateo360]

In that case, any possibility for a user like me to use this version 5 with Powerpress ? (for example by replacing links to the library in the code or something else...)

[angelo]

Version 2 (classic) and version 3 were dramatically different as far as config optins go, so you can't just swap the swf files and go.

Find out if there is an offiial FlowPlayer wordpress plugin like the VideoJS plugin. If its packaged separately like VideoJS then we don't care what they do license wise you can use the player along side Powerpres

By the way, I would start thinking about switching to something like videoJS, cross platform and works on mobile devices. Flash based players are no longer the ideal players to use.

[mateo360]

Would be great to have an up to date player because I have actually a lot of problem for streaming mp3 using Powerpress on different browsers / devices...
HTML5 is probably the best solution, I found this, maybe it will be interesting for u :
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/10-awesome-html5-audio-players

[angelo]

I'm bookmarking that link, thanks! I had plans on using FlarePlayer, it does audio and video, but it appears to have been abandoned.

I've tested jPlayer and audio.js in the past. The problem with both of these is they are heavily reliant on JavaScript, jPlayer requires jQuery in particular. The level of support we would need to provide increases anytime we introduce more complications at the presentation/theme level. There are so many poorly written themes that if we did provide JavaScript based players it would be via a separate plugin, exactly how we added VideoJS.

[mateo360]

Don't know a lot about programming but could be a solution, yes
MediaElement.js (http://mediaelementjs.com/) looks like a very good one for both audio and video
I've tried the Wordpress extension but it don't work properly with Firefox (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-element-html5-video-and-audio-player/). I've seen on forum it has to be installed directly to work fine.
It looks really nice, up to date and, cheese on the cake, a very sweet theme is available (http://www.onedesigns.com/freebies/custom-mediaelement-js-skin)
I just don't know if it's really meeting your needs or possibilities !!

EDIT : license is GPLv2 / MIT (https://github.com/johndyer/mediaelement/#readme)

[angelo]

That one uses javacript as well.