videos v0.15

Version: 0.15


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 0.15 implements support for M3U playlists whilst resolving browser lockup issues where an incorrect mimetype is supplied

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

New Features

  • VID-5: M3U Support
  • VID-14: Browser tab will lock up if video is not HLS and mimetype omitted

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 0.15