Compatibility with JW Player with MEDIAL
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https://mediastream.brighton.ac.uk/Play/1439 for example. The result:
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https://mediastream.brighton.ac.uk/Play/1439
– does open in VLC media player, but there's no playback.
Can you tell, is this an unavoidable penalty of use of Vualto?
If it helps, from within the source of the page:
– results in the appearance of a player, with a playback button, but again there's no playback.
Use case
https://mobile.twitter.com/grahamperrin/status/1051005890491506693 – as far as I can tell, no way for content owners to download (and so, edit) their own content.
Links
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JW_Player#Features_and_licensing
… JW Player supports … Digital rights management (DRM) (in collaboration with Vualto), …
Oops, I overlooked this (also in the source of the example page):
– which does play in the browser (Waterfox 56.2.3) and VLC Media Player.
So (ignoring my misplaced suspicion re: DRM):
- please, might play-with gain compatibility with MEDIAL instances such as this?
https://github.com/jwplayer/jwplayer/issues/1826#issuecomment-279824090
We don't condone downloading videos from publishers without their permission.
Fair enough, but it's troublesome when a content owner can not easily download his or her own content ;-)
Hi Graham,
play-with is really intended to do just one thing, which is linking native software such as VLC, mpv or youtube-dl to media sources that are accessed in a web browser. I don't want to add functionality already present in this programs to play-with.
AFAICT, VLC doesn't have the functionality to find and play JWPlayer embedded media, or find any media embedded in a web page, for this matter. It has to be presented with the direct media URL, which in your case is (as you already found out):
* https://mediastream.brighton.ac.uk/flash/20121671_hd.mp4
However, youtube-dl does have this functionality and I encourage you (and any play-with user, as mentioned on AMO and in the README) to try it out. The page you linked
works flawlessly with youtube-dl and mpv via play-with.
Use case
https://mobile.twitter.com/grahamperrin/status/1051005890491506693 – as far as I can tell, no way for content owners to download (and so, edit) their own content.
This is obviously a problem of the platform provider, users should report it to them to find a solution.
In the meantime, downloading the previously published Video with youtube-dl is a functional workaround.
I'm closing this bug, but you can still respond if you need more info.