Roadmap

version 3.0, - release Q4 '08

Flowplayer 3.0 will be a complete rewrite of the current version. It will implemented in ActionScript 3.0 making it work only in Flash 9.0 and greater. Here are our goals.

1. Plugin architecture

A video "platform" with plugin support. Plugins can be implemented in both JavaScript and ActionScript. ActionScript plugins will be able to draw themselves into the player's canvas and can extend the player in interesting ways. JavaScript plugins will extend player outside the canvas.

2. New API

There will be a totally new API for both languages. A total control of the Flowplayer and it's plugins is exposed for developers.

3. Client plugins

These plugins are planned to be released in the initial release of Flowplayer 3.0

1. controlbar - yes it will be a plugin! this means that you can replace it with your own
2. content - a plugin that you can use to put any HTML content over or beside the player at any time of the playback.
3. HTML controlbar - pure HTML solution of controlling Flowplayer playback.
4. HTML playlist - our current implementation taken to the next level (again).

4. Pluggable readers

By default Flowplayer reads video stream from a file on the web server. In Flowplayer 3 you can replace reader implementation so that it understands different video streams such as various live streams or YouTube streams.

5. easier / lighter / smoother

Configuration will be much simpler and all "advanced" features are now taken to the responsibility of plugins. This way our core player remains simple and smaller in file size. Due to ActionScript 3.0 the video playback quality is better.

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version 2.x

Before releaseing 3.0 we will release minor feature enhancements and fixes for the current 2.x branch. Version 2 will continue to live in parallel with version 3 for some time. Our goal is to make the 2.x branch rock-solid and bug-free and we will not add any major new functionality to it.

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