Authoring Playlists with the JW Player for H.264 and Flash Downloadable and Real-time Streaming Videos

Posted by Derrick on January 17, 2010 under Video Streaming and Compression | Be the First to Comment

Authoring playlists with the JW Player for H.264 and Flash downloadable and real-time streaming videos is an approach that many should consider.  Creating playlists with the JW Player is tricky but once you’ve creatied your first playlist you can easily deliver H.264 and Flash downloadable streaming videos from your web server or CDN.  You can also deliver real-time streaming videos in the Flash and H.264 flavors from a Flash Streaming Server such as the Wowza Media Server Pro.

What’s nice about the delivery of your videos is viewers will not know if your videos are downloadable or real-time streaming.  The delivery works for both PC and Mac platforms. Viewers also can’t tell if content is in the H.264 or Flash format.  Another great feature about playlists is you can set-up them up and then have them updated by novices not as well versed in authoring streaming video content.  With the xspf playlists, for example, you can stack your videos to play and then whenever you have new video content you can just add a new reference and upload the new .XML file to the web server.

To learn more about authoring Playlists with the JW Player attend one of the 2-Day Video Streaming and Compression Training classes.  You can take the class on-line, on-site or in Orlando, Florida.