Multiple players on the same page not working

[jeremyleejames]

I don't think multiple instances of the player on the same page are working. I can get it to work with the non-jquery version.

Ideas?

Thanks ahead of time.

~Jeremy
jeremy@writeclickmedia.com

[kcivey]

Do you have an example page? Are you giving the two players different ids? The id defaults to 'jwPlayer', but you'll need to set it to something else if you have a second player on the page.

[jeremyleejames]

Yes, I am giving the two players different ids.

I got it to work by not using this jQuery version, and reverting to the standard javascript method of embedding jwplayer, as provided on the longtail video site. Which sucks, because I can do a lot more UI stuff if I could get this to work.

Your example / demo only shows one player working. Have you tested this with multiple players on the same page? If so, I'd love to see an example, and I could probably get mine to work by comparing it to yours to see where I've gone wrong.

I'd have to recode my previous verison to give you a sample of what it looks like, and since I'm embedding it through Expression Engine CMS, it would look a little messy.

[kcivey]

Yes, I have used it for multiple players on the same page, but it's quite possible there's a bug. The plugin hasn't been used by many people yet, so I don't doubt there are things I'll have to fix as people uncover them. I'll see about adding a second player to the demo page tomorrow.

[jeremyleejames]

Thanks so much. I really appreciate it. I was already able to get a really nice UI effect working with this jquery plugin on another site: http://www.exportassist.org/video/filterby/episode-002/ (but with only one player). It would be nice to be able to do similar things, but with multiple players.

[kcivey]

The demo now has two players and works for me. It would be good to find out what difference caused your attempt not to work.
http://kcivey.github.com/jquery.jwplayer/demo.html

[jeremyleejames]

Thanks for your help. Seeing your code for two players on the same page is very useful, and after seeing how you did it, my guess is that I forgot to code a separate playerReady function for each player. When I get caught up on some client work, I'll attempt another multi-player version using this jquery plugin. And when I do, I'll let you know how it goes.

Best!