Media Players

The Widget Framework currently supports three players for audio/video playback: JW Player, Flowplayer and MediaElement.js. The players can be used as follows:

• JW Player for both audio and video

• Flowplayer for video only

• MediaElement.js for audio only

Audio/video playback using any of these players is supported by:

Media widget

Can be used to play audio/video using the embedded player on content item pages.

Teaser widget

Can be used to play audio/video in several modes (embedded, pop-up and so on) on both content item pages and section pages.

Teaser view

Can be used to play audio/video in several modes (embedded, pop-up and so on) on both content item pages and section pages.

Player selection

You specify the player you want to use by Adding the following properties to a properties file in the common configuration layer. Open configuration-root/com/escenic/framework/frontend/FrontEndConfig.properties (or create if it does not exist) and add the following properties:

property.videoPlayer=video-player
property.audioPlayer=audio-player

where:

video-player

Is set to either jwplayer or flowplayer. The default value is flowplayer.

audio-player

Is set to either jwplayer or mediaelement. The default value is mediaelement.