Configuring JW Player

To use JW Player for both video and audio playback, add the following properties to configuration-root/com/escenic/framework/frontend/FrontEndConfig.properties:

property.videoPlayer=jwplayer
property.audioPlayer=jwplayer
property.media.jwplayer.script.location=script-location
property.media.jwplayer.key=license-key

where:

script-location: is the URL of the JW Player javascript file. You can use JW player in two different ways: self-hosted, where you use your own copy of the script, or cloud-hosted, where you use JW Player's copy directly.
license-key: You only need to set this property if you have a self-hosted JW Player.

Cloud-hosted installations may be affected by cross-domain security restrictions. If JW Player needs to access a file that is hosted on a different domain from itself (a VTT file, for example), then you will need to configure the JW Player to allow Cross-domain Resource Loading.

The following features are available using JW Player:

Basic video playback
Video quality selection
Subtitles/closed captioning
Cue points
Pre-roll ads
Social sharing
In-line player
Google Analytics integration
HLS adaptive streaming
Live streaming

There are several different editions of JW Player. Some of the above features require the purchase of a Premium or Enterprise edition license.

Some of the additional features offered by JW Player require configuration as well:

JW Player is highly configurable and offers a large number of options that you can set by adding properties to the FrontEndConfig.properties file. For details see General JW Player Setup Options.

For information on how to configure the Widget Framework to provide JW Player with pre-roll ads, see Configure Video Advertising Services.