For a long period of time, browsers like Firefox and Internet Explorer did not support MP3 or MP4. Additionally you may wish to supplement your player with other opensource media formats listed which will be used by older web browsers. This will give you the widest possible compatibility with different devices and web browsers.
Preparing your media for the webJust like any other HTML5 media player, audio files need to be in MP3 format and video files need to be in MP4 format. Turn-off things like the splash play button or captions if they are not needed
This also makes Player stack good to use inside accordions or tabs - when a user clicks away the audio or video will stop playing. This is achieved by listening for a click or touch event happening outside of the currently playing Player stack. The Stacks plugin lets you group multiple stacks together into columns, and this is an excellent example.Ī special mechanism is built into Player, ensuring that only a single HTML5 audio or video file will play on the page, at any one time. The title text is just formed using a regular text stack dragged and dropped into the 1 column stack, above Player stack. Then you can place each minified Player stack into a 1 column stack, with a background fill and rounded corners applied. However by turning off poster images and setting the aspect ratio to 0% in the stack settings, you can create an extra slimline audio player. It's your content, so wouldn't it be great to broadcast it yourself? Player is what you need!Īudio playlistPlayer does not have support for true playlists as such - with the PlayLister stack being better suited for this task. Then you have the ongoing battle of advertising, suggested content, copyright issues and the growing problem of censorship to deal with. Most of these services re-encode your uploaded content resulting in depreciated playback quality.
But these services typically aren't geared-up towards handling professional audio and video content. Sure, you could upload your content to a service like Soundcloud, YouTube or Vimeo and quickly embed that within your website. Player grants you the power to quickly create stylish and sophisticated media players in your web projects.
No complicated code or configuration is required Player makes the whole task effortless! Player has grown to become the most popular audio and video stack available for RapidWeaver, and it's easy to see why. An easy way to get self-hosted or warehoused media embedded safely within your webpages and viewable to a worldwide audience on a variety of browsers and platforms. Player is one stack that combines support for both audio and video files.