jPlayer 2.5.0

[Mark Panaghiston]

jPlayer 2.5.0 has been released on http://jplayer.org/

Download the latest version here:
http://jplayer.org/download/

The release notes for the changes from the previous release are here:
http://jplayer.org/latest/release-notes/

Upgrading is seamless. Simply add the new jquery.jplayer.min.js and Jplayer.swf files to your site.

New features:

• Fix: The Flash solution now works with more than 8 on a page.
  
• Fix: Relative media URLs are now supported.
  
• New globalVolume option, to share volume across instances.
  
• New tellOthers() method, similar to pauseOthers().
• See release notes for more details.
  

The jPlayer GitHub repo has had a v2.5 branch created.

jPlayer is now listed in the official jQuery plugins:
http://plugins.jquery.com/jplayer/

This thread continues on from the previous development log for jPlayer 2.4.0, found here:
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jplayer/t33euuON_Lg/discussion

The development log of jPlayer 2.5.0 will continue in this thread.

Please start a new thread for support requests.

[Mark Panaghiston]

Omitted the playbackRate feature added in 2.5.0. This has now been added to the release notes.

While this feature has been enabled, it varies wildly cross-browser and will need with patches or browser developments to make it more useful. However, if you are targeting a specific browser, you should be able to use it with good results.

[Mark Panaghiston]

I'm not sure if I informed the community about this, but there is a jPlayer injector that is handy if you have many instances on a page:
https://github.com/happyworm/jPlayer.injector

I had intended to add that to the main site somewhere... Maybe over the weekend I'll try and do it.

[Mark Panaghiston]

For a demonstration of playbackRate in HTML5 - without jPlayer:
http://hyperaud.io/lab/pbr-test/

jPlayer will behave the same as this, since it uses HTML5... But the point is, you can easily compare cross-browser operation here, since that varies.

[Mark Panaghiston]

jPlayer 2.5.2 has been pushed to GitHub:
https://github.com/happyworm/jPlayer

• [2.5.1] Bug Fix: Links in the .jp-no-solution element were not working. The empty click handler was capturing and preventing the click on the link. Changed the cssSelector code so the GUI elements that do not have a user action, do not longer require an empty function. This removes a number of empty internal functions. This issue was report here Cannot click links in .jp-no-solution by robballou.
• [2.5.2] Bug Fix: Added to the Flash MP3 solution the loadedmetadata and durationchange events. This is important for the jplayer Popcorn Player Plugin working with MP3 and IE8.

[Mark Panaghiston]

Updating this thread with latest commits to GitHub... Did 2.5.5 today, but others were some time ago.
https://github.com/happyworm/jPlayer

• [2.5.3] Bug Fix: Corrected the checks for a console.log() feature.
• [2.5.4] Bug Fix: Check that media formats contain a truethy url value before attempting to convert them to absolute URLs. The jPlayer.inspector project highlighted this problem.
• [2.5.5] Bug Fix: Applied a fix for Android when changing audio and immediately playing. After setMedia() to an audio media type, any immediate play(), play(time) or pause(time) commands are delayed until the first progress event.

[Mark Panaghiston]

While 2.6.0 is in development, I have placed 2.5.5 online so that Android users may help test it.
http://jplayer.org/2.5.5/demos/

Take care not to wander back onto the normal site... Avoid using the main navigation and either use back, or the in page links back to the demos.

The WIP release notes are here:
http://jplayer.org/2.5.5/release-notes/

Remember that if you want to download the 2.5.5 version, then get it from GitHub.
https://github.com/happyworm/jPlayer/releases

This area will be deleted when 2.6.0 goes live.

[Mark Panaghiston]

While testing on the Samsung Android devices, I noticed that Android 4.2 was fixed with 2.5.5
The latest Android devices used 4.4.2 and they did not have the problem. ie., they worked in 2.5.0 and in 2.5.5

[Mark Panaghiston]

This thread continues in jPlayer 2.6.0
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jplayer/yZZLUBziseY/discussion