Flowplayer 3.0.5 is out! Feb 3, 2009
Flowplayer 3.0.5
This bug fix release fixes many important issues. Complete list of changes can be found from our version history. Here are the new features of this release.
Fully GPL compliant
The GPL licensing in the Free version is now formalized and leaves no questions behind. We have changed our logo to a copyright notice. GPL licensed software is required to carry such a notice if it has a user interface. Additionally we have a no warranty statement in the context menu (right click menu) and a link to the GPL license.
The GPL requires that if you modify the source code our copyright notice and the other legal notices must stay there. We offer commercial versions that don't include any of these notices.
Play button
The "play" pseudo-plugin now supports fadeIn(), fadeOut(), show() and hide() methods. You have also new configuration possibilities for the play button as follows:
// make only the play button invisible (buffering animation is still used)
play: { display: 'none' }
// disable the play button and the buffering animation
play: null
// disable the buffering animation
buffering: null
At runtime you can get access to the play button with this call: $f().getPlugin("play").
Unlimited subdomains
Since 3.0.5 commercial versions works an all nested subdomains with a single product key. For example following domains
sub1.mydomain.com sub2.mydomain.com inner.sub3.mydomain.com
all work with single product key. On previous versions the last subdomain would not have worked. Now you can have unlimited amount of nested subdomains under mydomain.com.
IMPORTANT: those users who have had more than three parts in their domain name will have to change the product key from their pages. You can get the updated key from your account. If you want to change the domain to span multiple nested subdomains please contact support@flowplayer.org and we will do that for you.
Please see the GPL License.
Miscalleneous
Added possibility to seek when in the buffering state: see this thread.
Bug fixes
- Fixed context menu for with IE (commercial version)
- a cuepoint at time zero was fired several times
- screen is now arranged correctly even when only bottom or top is defined for it in the configuration
- Now possible to call play() in an onError handler: see this thread
- Does not throw an error if the player cannot persist the volume on the client computer: see this thread
- Triggering fullscreen does not pause the player in IE - and some other browsers on Windows
- The play button overlay no longer has a gap between it's pieces when a label is used: see this thread
- clip.update() JavaScript call now resets the duration
- a label configured for the play button did not work in the commercial version
flashembed 1.0.0
flowplayer 3.0.5 JavaScript component now uses a brand new flashembed version. This important tool has gone trough a massive rewrite and can now be concidered a serious tool for embedding Flash on your page. It is a generic tool and not made specifically for Flowplayer. Here are the highlights of this release.
- flashembed can now be used to embed all kinds of Flash objects and some problems encountered on the previous release has been resolved.
- we have a lot of new flashembed demos showing you the flexibility of this tool. demos include: basics, jquery usage, handling old versions, layering HTML on top of Flash.
- flashembed generates standards based OBJECT tag and EMBED tag is now history. more information
- the role of flashembed in flowplayer.js script is now being described in this demo.
You can see the new home page for this tool here.
flowplayer.playlist 3.0.2
A great new feature for the playlist plugin is the possibility to add and remove playlist entries on the fly. You can see a demo about this from this standalone example page. This requres a jQuery version 1.3.1 or greater to work.
This tool no longer fails if there is only one entry in the playlist in manual configuration. This issue was raported in this forum thread.
Playlist documentation page contains new standalone examples for setting up a playlist on your site.
flowplayer.embed 3.0.1
Our embedding tool uses new version of flashembed as a "workhorse". Basically this means the code generated by this tool no longer has both EMBED and OBJECT tags and it generates a W3C standard compliant OBJECT code.
