videos v0.13

Version: 0.13


Project Info

videos.bentasker.co.uk is used to embed platform agnostic videos into various sites, including www.bentasker.co.uk and https://snippets.bentasker.co.uk.

It provides the means to organise videos as well as to trivially reference them from other locations.


Release Notes

Version 0.13 is a feature release, and brings some general improvements

An overview of issues for this release can be seen in the JIRA Mirror

New Features

  • VID-6: Inserted pings to analytics so video performance can be tracked
  • VID-7: Identified and documented non-player caused playback issue on Android
  • VID-8: Created a player page (https://videos.bentasker.co.uk/Player.html)
  • VID-9: Schema.org microdata markup is also now injected into the page
  • VID-1: Minified the embed code

As of the release of v0.13, embeds should refer only to the minified embed script:

<div style="width: 60%">
    <script type="text/javascript" 
            src="https://videos.bentasker.co.uk/resources/embed/embed.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
           embedBensPlayer('2017/201705_Lua_split_string/lua_string_split.mp4_master.m3u8');
    </script>
</div>

Player example

The following player uses release 0.13