Flash Player Left Android Mobile

RealPlayer has just returned for Android, while flash player has left.How much further will it go on?

As a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime, Adobe Flash player provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems. It can be used for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or mobile devices.

But the application in mobile devices came to the end after Apple refused to allow the Flash Player within the inbuilt iOS web browser. About a week ago on August 15th, Adobe Systems officially declared no flash player for portable android devices anymore. Actually, Adobe has already made decision not to develop flash player for web on mobile.

 

Adobe once tried hard for portable devices, but was banned by Apple. Adobe will block new installs of Flash on Android, essentially removing its presence from the mobile world. People say that Adobe would have turned its purpose on Android, but never effectively marketed its integration features with Google’s popular mobile OS. iOS never stands behind it as Steve Jobs expressed in April 2010: iPhone, iPod and iPad would never have flash player found.

Is the era of html 5 for mobile coming as flash player die away? On another hand, the exit of mobile field of flash player actually means to give up a greater market-85% Android OS of the whole mobile market.

Android 4.1 does not allow installation of flash player, and now it’s official. From then on, Adobe will disable all new installs of Flash player for Android. However, this never means this software or flash would disappear from people’s life. As a matter of fact, it still owns great advances over other player in the PC world-Google’s Chrome support it, by the way. Windows 8 from Microsoft still has built-in flash player since html 5 is not stable enough for the market. With all these changes in the internet world and portable devices, I wonder how long can flash last?　

Free Video and Audio Players for Web

Videos always speak louder than words, as is usually the case, audience do prefer information in audio, or images and audio together-video, rather than lengthy words. The truth is that an increasing number of people are applying videos in their websites or blogs for better results. If you’re looking for some free video players for your websites, then the collection below may probably help you.

• Video player

Flowplayer

Mainly designed for the use of site owners, developers, hobbyists, businesses and programmers, Flowplayer is an open source video player for your website.

There are four amazing features available: the design, streaming, essentials and analytics.

“Design” means that it is skinnable-you can decide your own design by changing colors, transparency, etc. Images, your logo, can also be added to it. And with a splash image, your videos in the website will be much smoother.

“Streaming” suggests that Flowplayer could be HD quality when internet connection is in good condition, if not, snappier version is shown. You can also jump to any part of the video without awaiting the loading of the player. In addition, fast forward/backward or slow forward/backward can all be done in this player. Moreover, it supports almost all servers and networks, which is really a stunning feature.

“Essential” sharing button ensures your video, websites to be viewed widely.

“Analytics” you can monitor your views from Google Analytics.

• Audio players 

WP Audio Player

Although being as a Wordpress plugin, WP Audio Player can also be used in other non-wordpress website for playing mp3 audio files. With it you can play the mp3 file directly in your post without any trouble since it’s quite easy to use and customize.

XSPF Web Music Player

XSPF Web Music Player is a flash-based web application that uses xspf playlist format to play mp3 songs. May this player is a little out now, but it may help you promote your website freely. Below is a tutorial I found from YouTube, hope this helps:

Well, you can try these free video and audio players for your website. They will absolutely make your websites, blogs popular if you are interested in sharing information with people.

Top 5 Free Video Plugins for Your Wordpress

Wordpress as a blog platform is becoming more and more popular these years. To make your wordpress blog widely-exposed, the WordPress video player plugin, which is a great way to extend the basic framework of wordpress to accommodate very advanced features for adding video content on your blog, helps you a lot just as what a new theme will do.

There are many plugins of video players that could meet users’ requirements. Below, I’ll introduce 3 wonderful and popular ones for your choices.

VideoJS–HTML5 Video Player for WordPress
As a video plugin for WordPress built on the Video.js HTML5 video player library, Video JS is the most popular HTML5 video player available. With this wonderful tool, you can embed video in your post or page using HTML5 with Flash fallback support for non-HTML5 browsers.

An HTML5 Video Player is a JavaScript library that builds a custom set of controls over top of the HTML5 video element to provide a consistent look between HTML5 browsers.

VideoPress
An account of wordpress will be needed, if you don’t have one, several minutes signing up would be done. The VideoPress plugin allows blog administrators to upload new videos to their WordPress.com video account and manage existing videos from the convenience of their self-hosted WordPress.org blog’s administrative interface. Authors can add any VideoPress video into a blog post through the use of a simple shortcode and customizations.

 JW Player for WordPress
With JW Player for WordPress, it is quite simple to deliver Flash and HTML5 video through your WordPress website. It manages multiple custom players and allows for easy customization interface, and embedding of Flash and HTML5 video using the JW Player in your WordPress posts. It provides support for all of the player’s configuration options, including skins, plugins and the LongTail Video AdSolution.

The full featured playlist manager-order your media by dragging the mouse, makes it even more convenient to use.

All in One Video Pack
This plugin offers every functionality you would need for video and rich-media, functions of upload/record/import videos directly to the post included, which makes it more than just a video embed tool. In addition, you can edit and remix videos using Kaltura’s online full-featured video editor. Importing from various sources of websites would be a piece of cake. Many more advanced features will be found out during your use of this video player. You can get it installed in 4 steps within a few minutes. And sharing videos with others can also be made by it.

Viper's Video Quicktags
Video and audio plugin for WordPress built on the MediaElement.js HTML5 media player library. It allows you to get videos from websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, etc. to your wordpress website in an easy way. Just simply click one of the new buttons that this plugin adds to the write screen (rich editor included) and then paste the URL that the video is located at into the prompt box. The width, height, and other specifications of the video can be customized accordingly.

It supports iPhone, iPad, and Andriod. Supports MP4, OGG, WebM, WMV, MP3, WAV, WMA files as well as captions with WebSRT files.

Although there are also many premium video plugins available in the wordpress.org, these 5 popular and robust free video players certainly could fulfill most of your requirements.