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It's extremely robust and the API is better than any other player I've used which makes it a great choice for customization.
It does not work very well. More "YouTube-like" when it comes to adding a clickable link to me, is a key component missing.
Its nice flash video player for your own site or blog. Customizable and and also have free version which is good.
This happens even on the fastest of Internet connections. Inexplicable Crashes and Error Screens that abruptly stop playback, which can happen even on video files that are not corrupted.
So this JW Player helps me to watch movies, Music videos online as well as downloaded ones. It is very easy to handle and also the interface is very attractive and very eye favorable.
A number of formats I tried seem to quite clunky and did not play back as smoothly as I hoped. When introducing 4K, the problems got worse.
Overall experience with Video Hosting was good. From uploading videos to Analysing the Audience engagement, were all easy and reliable.
Even their support team members told us that they understood that our international customers are having a bad time and it makes sense for us to move on.
I have been using Sprout Video for a number of years and they are great. I highly recommend them for anyone or organization looking for an effective way to house their training videos.
The problem comes when you realize that many wordpress sites will not display on mobile without digging into the source code of your site, not for a beginner.
What I really like is that it is super easy to grab the URL or embed code, which I use in my websites. I also use the playlist feature for employee tutorials, which is super helpful.
My one complaint about Sprout is that sometimes playback caching is slow, causing the player to pause during playback.
They have different options to choose from, including a monthly payment option, which is fantastic for someone like me who likes to have some flexibility.
At times there are so many options that it's a bit confusing BUT... it's probably due to the fact we use this so intermittently that knowledge of the system gets lost in the time between uses.
I have little question on how to use the platfiorm because it is so user friendly. I have not had any customers call with any issues while watching our videos which is awesome.
The only thing that could stop a user is that its price is higher than other services.
Bryan C.: Hi, I'm Bryan. I'm a digital and video specialist, and I give JW Player a four out of five. If you want to see other reviews, click below. We use primarily JW Player for storing and hosting our videos that we play on our websites. We have eight different brands and so there's a lot of... We break it down into different levels, and primarily it's to monitor, upload, use all the links, also to track how many views are being taken and so forth. One of the things I really like is recently, within about the past year, they updated their GFI in their dashboard. At first, I was a little dubious about it because you know how you get used to certain things. But actually it ends up being... It's works out really, really well, and it's easy to move around and find what you need. The one thing that JW Player kind of falls down a little bit on is that they don't really have a good way of putting a URL, active URL, in the video. They do, but you could put a logo up at the top right or top left, or you can put some text, but there's very little leeway. You can't move it around. You can't make it bigger.
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