Friday 8 October 2010

JW Player API

Thanks, authors of JW Player, for wasting at least 3 hours of my life because you have changed your JavaScript API and not published any documentation for it!

Quoting an entry buried in the help forum:

The v4 [and v5] player uses a completely different API, details here: http://code.longtailvideo.com/trac/wiki/FlashAPI

Sadly, that URL doesn't work. Now I expect Open Source software to have either completely useless, or just plain absent documentation, but we (and a great many others) have paid for this player - so its not acceptable.