{"id":1246,"date":"2010-04-28T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=1246"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T13:51:46","slug":"mediafront-releases-open-source-html5-video-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/mediafront-releases-open-source-html5-video-player\/","title":{"rendered":"MediaFront Releases Open Source HTML5 Video Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MediaFront has released an open source HTML5 video player with Flash fallback capabilities. \u00a0The player can be used on standalone web pages or a CMS version is available for Drupal (with Joomla and WordPress offerings in the works). \u00a0Because the player is open source, you may use it however you&#8217;d like at no cost and even modify the source code if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more and download the player by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafront.org\/getting-started\/standalone\" target=\"_blank\">clicking here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course HTML5 video is intended to do two things; provide a single web standard for video, so people using any computer or device can watch video without the need of plugins. \u00a0After that, the purpose is to make it simpler (than Flash) for web content producers to publish their videos.<\/p>\n<p>So far it hasn&#8217;t exactly reached either of those goals. \u00a0In the case of making it simpler (than Flash) for web content producers to publish their videos, you can check out the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediafront.org\/documentation\/osm-player\/osm-standalone-setup-guide\" target=\"_blank\">installation instructions for the MediaFront \u00a0HTML5 video player<\/a><\/strong> and determine for yourself if it&#8217;s simpler than pasting Flash embed code into a site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MediaFront has released an open source HTML5 video player with Flash fallback capabilities. \u00a0The player can be used on standalone web pages or a CMS version is available for Drupal (with Joomla and WordPress offerings in the works). \u00a0Because the player is open source, you may use it however you&#8217;d like at no cost and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[526,525,527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}