If you know how to code web playable (see my next post!) h.264 mp4 videos especially, you can upload different qualities of our source video and the viewer will have to option to pick any of them (see more on that below).
better HD video and other quality options - uploaders can now offer multiple video size and bitrate qualities.
should be much more reliable - I had previously hacked up a lot of the JS and flash from the jwplayer release version to accommodate our various wants and looks - now we use mostly the stock player with minimal JS alterations/customizations around the player.
videos have a nice new “Related Videos” pane that shows at the end of playback.
a final fallback option for most items is a “file download” link from the “click to play” image
html5 is now the default - flash is a fallback option.
Here’s some new features/improvements worth mentioning: It features the very latest release of jwplayer from. Many of you have already noticed that since the New Year, we have migrated our new “beta” player to be the primary/default player, then to be the only player. PS: here is the way we compile ffmpeg (we use ubuntu linux, but works on macosx, too).