JW Player
JW Player is a company and its eponymous main product, a video player software for embedding into web pages. It represents the most popular video player for self-hosted web videos.
The proprietary software is offered as software as a service (saas); as a free basic version for strictly noncommercial websites and otherwise as a paid service. In 2015 the paying customer base grew by more than 40 percent to 15,000 (60 % from the USA), 2.5 million websites used the free edition, and each month a billion viewers were served.[1][2] The software is named after the founder and initial developer Jeroen Wijering[3] and exists since 2005. It initially existed as Open source software[4] that was distributed via Jeroen's blog. YouTube used it in the beginning before Google bought it.[5]
JW Player supports
- MPEG-DASH (only in paid version),
- Digital rights management (DRM) (in collaboration with Vualto),
- interactive advertisement,
- customization of interface appearance using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).[1]
In 2015, version 7 was published, which was completely rewritten. Support for HTML5 Video and Flash Video are integrated into the same HTML5 software that is said to be smaller and loading faster. The Flash-based edition was dismissed.[1]
In 2007 or 2008 the software product was integrated into the advertising company named LongTail, which was renamed after the software in 2013. It started in 2007 or 2008 and is headquartered in New York. Another product is the video management software "JW Platform", formerly known as "Bits On The Run".[4]
External links
- Official website of the company
- Product page of the software
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Troy Dreier (Streaming Media Magazine), 13. August 2015: JW Player 7 Released, With DASH Support and Speed Improvements
- ↑ Anthony Ha (TechCrunch), 5. Januar 2016: JW Player Raises $20M To Expand Its Video Platform
- ↑ Jocelyn Johnson (VideoInk), 18. Januar 2016: 5Qs with JW Player’s Jeroen Wijering and Chris Mahl
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ryan Lawler, 24. Oktober 2013: LongTail Video Rebrands As JW Player Because That’s What Customers Know Them For
- ↑ https://www.thedrum.com/news/2015/08/07/how-jw-player-became-largest-video-player-behind-youtube-and-facebook
