changing the format is not difficult, the problem is that the player can actually only read the RSS (XSPF currently) in Flash mode (no HTML5) so it actually makes no sense to implement it until we use a full HTML5 JWplayer mode (which, as you know, we are not currently using yet)

If you update the XSPF helper but ensure you use the jwplayer namespace/tags, all should work out ok, right?

I find the player works great reading playlists in mRss with both flash and html5. Please see http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player/jw-player-for-flash-v5/12537/xml-playlist-support In flash mode it reads almost all formats! The main issue is support in html5 mode. media rss works great in html5 mode along with flash.

I ended writing a few modules for my websites to play music that run in joomla but are outside of MC.

Just an FYI that I noticed, I was having difficulties at first also getting the html5 to fall over correctly. On all my sites, it appears to be some type of conflict with the jwplayer.js file that only gets called in html5 mode and some library that the default joomla install uses. I found that if I called the player inside an embedded iframe, within the page, that the player would play great in both flash and html5 on all the supported devices I tried it on. This included flash in ie7 - ie9, chrome, and firefox, safari, as well as html5 on iphone, itouch, and chrome without flash.

Setting it up this way allowed me to use the jwplayer's flash and html5 modes. It even fails over gracefully on browsers like chrome when flash is disabled. It automatically plays in html5.

@greengeek
Wouldn't the issue of it not playing in HTML5 correctly be related to the jwplayer namespace not having been set correctly for non-supported playlist tags?

BTW did you see my reply to your post RE roktabs?

Best,

Gez

I dont think its the name space, but I may be wrong. I tried looking at the jwplayer.js code and it was all minified and looks like they use a bunch of generic variables. Google chrome's javascript console showed a few errors, though I am not sure how to debug them. By running the player in the iframe, I was able to avoid all the libraries that joomla loads on the page so that seemed to fix the issue. I posted this issue on the longtail forums a while back at http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forums/jw-player/setup-issues-and-embedding/25946/html-5-player-in-joomla-site

They suggested i use the joomlarulez pugin, but that did not work for me and I didn't like all the extra garbage it added to my site.

I saw your post on the other topic. I am not currently using any tabbed content on the MC pages, but it looks interesting.