JPlayer - A jQuery HTML5 Audio/Video Library

Interesting coincidence. Just found this library at around lunchtime today after having meddled with VideoJS and OSM Player. While VideoJS seems to have the fastest setup time, its the least flexibile and i couldnt even get OSM working. I found jPlayer to be the more robust and flexible. Seems like they've thought of pretty much everything. Its like the jQuery of media playback. Im expecting to use this a lot more in the long term.

I've used this on a number of projects and it's served well. Being able to customize the player interface using HTML/CSS is awesome after coming from Flash players with limited or difficult customizations.<p>One concern is that it hasn't been updated for going on 2 years, but if it's just wrapping the HTML5 &#60;video&#62; tag then perhaps it just doesn't need to be updated as it does it's job well...

How does this compare to SoundManager2 ( <a href="http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/</a> )? SM2 seems more actively developed, and looks to play nice in JQuery pages as well. Any reason to prefer one over the other?

Seems kind of spammy to link to this blog entry, which doesn't appear to actually provide any information, rather than <a href="http://www.jplayer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jplayer.org/</a>.