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Overview

JWPlayer is an in-browser multimedia player made by Longtail Video. Islandora uses it to create viewers 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.

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

The JWPlayer library that works with Islandora is JWPlayer version 6.12. This is free for non-commercial use, but you cannot get version 6.12 directly from the jwplayer.com website anymore as they now only support version 7.x as their free version. This is not a problem, of course, if you already have the JPWPlayer ver. 6.12 on your Islandora server. If that is not the case, you will have to download the source code for v. 6.12 from the jwplayer git repo and then build it for your environment. Note that you are also required to register for a free account 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 are actually required by Islandora.

There is an easier alternative to JWPlayer: Islandora is also compatible with the videojs library which may suit your needs just as well as JWPlayer without the hastle.

Installation

The process of installing JWPlayer is broken up 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 when 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 Drupal 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.

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