There will be a meeting at 11:00 EDT on 30 March 2012 to discuss player requirements with interested projects. Adobe Connect meeting location: http://connect.iu.edu/vov (enter meeting as a guest, providing your name and affiliation) Audio bridge option:
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Note: User story references (e.g., us18) refer to our user stories document.
VoV video player needs to satisfy these requirements:
Features that are required and nice to have built-in but we can write them ourselves
Features that are not required but would be nice to have and difficult for us to implement
Features that we will most likely want to write ourselves
Other requirements
The list below only compares open-source players with license less strict than GPL.
| jwplayer | mediaelement.js | OSMF (StrobeMedia) | Engage | video.js | Fluid player | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| License | Custom | GPLv2/MIT | BSD | MPL | LGPLv3 | ECL 2.0 |
| Flash | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| m3u8 | Flash + HTML5 | HTML5 | 3rd party plugin | Probably | Unclear | HTML5 |
| Adaptive streaming | Yes | No | Yes | Probably | No | No |
| Playlist | Yes | No | Yes | Probably | No | No |
| Skinnable | Flash + HTML5 | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | HTML5 |
| Javascript API | Yes | Yes | Exploratory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Clip making | Yes | No | Unclear | Yes | Unclear | No |
| Caption | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Engage is based on OSMF. We're looking into Fluid Player.