JW Player Reviews

I like the fact that the software was designed to play all types of media files

The design is poorly done which makes it less attractive

~ Capable of reasonably decent playback of video footage in plentiful formats and resolutions. ~ Easy adoption for online platforms in plentiful countries. ~ Continued development helps refine the player for future API updates to websites and also improves overall stability.

~ Loading Times for Online Video playback can sometimes cause serious hanging that requires the user to press Play/Pause; once to pause the video, and once again to re~enable the register that allows for the video to load. 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...

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Great support. (They need it though, considering the bad product.)

They will get you in a year long contract. Product will not work for the international customers. You will have to refund, support, and have your support team be consumed with JW Player issues all the time. However, JW Player will continue to bill you with their less than ethical pricing and billing behavior.

Super easy to use. I always provide the Ad Tester tool to first time users when they need to test creative. The Ad Tester does track quarile tracking and will display companions.

The UI could be updated. It's not very aesthetically pleasing. With the simplicity of the software it's probably not high on the roadmap.

I am a music and film lover. So I used to watch movies all the time and also usually I used to listen to music and I am huge interested on watching music videos. 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.

I am using this JW player for more than 2 years till now but I did not get any bad impression on this.

They've come a long way, staying up-to-date with best practices, and we haven't had a problem with our videos for years now. Very stable and highly recommended.

They're player is great and would use it any day, their platform is fairly limited in storage and plays etc without paying high enterprise rates that every year we have to negotiate to keep it where we are, the prices seem to skyrocket.

The end of use customer service was so bad, I can't even state something I liked about it. This horrible experience overshadowed everything.

The customer service was horrible!!!!!!!!

It is one of the fiercest competition to youtube integration on other websites out there and that's a fact I appreciate.

I do dislike that you're being limited quite a lot with it. Also the fact that your link cannot be downloaded isn't so great.

This may have been the easiest implementation of a tool I've ever experienced. Beyond that, it's so easy to use, you barely have to think about it after a while.

I honestly can't think of anything I don't like. We really haven't run into any problems at all.

JW is the #1 solution for most companies who make it a priority to host videos on their own servers. Users can track the video's analytics, similar to the YouTube analytics page, as well as customize the video players.

However, there are some negatives. The website is sometimes hard to navigate, given the wealth of features. Also, you have to take into account the costs that come with having a feature-rich account. You have to wonder, is hosting your own videos with custom video players really worth the cost of using JW Player?

It does what it's suppose to do, manage video and audio. They have made improvements on the analytics and that has been helpful.

I would like to see "podcast" functionality to the site. Wherein someone can download the podcast if they wanted to. Manage podcasting better. Video, they are desperate for an EASY way to add clickable functionality to the videos we upload. Right now it is cumbersome and awkward. It does not work very well. More "YouTube-like" when it comes to adding a clickable link to me, is a key component missing

I used JWPlayer for many years in our custom applications. From back in the Flash days and well into the HTML 5 craze, this player served us well. It's extremely robust and the API is better than any other player I've used which makes it a great choice for customization.

After buying a license several years ago, I find an email last month in my spam folder from Longtail informing me they would start charging me monthly. For what? They were not hosting my media files and I wasn't even using their CDN. I had a few other less than pleasant experiences with their support team so I finally decided to drop JWPlayer.

It's nice to still use JW Player and have one of the more old school media softwares still alive and well. We still use it to this date and it works well.

I wish it were a little more compatible with shopify and other big ecommerce platforms, takes a little longer to implement.

- Reliable player for contents from flash era to current HTML 5 era. - Video analytics similar to YouTube analytics. - Videos of a business are protected, and can be host in local servers.

- Price is on the high side. - Does not play 4K content properly.

Nothing really differentiates this product from other options that are available. You can do much better for less money and fewer headaches.

They sell that they are "business" ready, there servers are on blacklists for adult content, their policy is they don't have any, but try telling that to your client that won't allow you content through their firewall. When I discuss it with them, they won't move the servers or do anything about it.. To add insult to injury, after cancelling they still renewed my annual subscription and I now need to fight to get that charge fixed.. A big bag of headaches.

it is a great software especially if you want to protect you content online like videos from unauthorized downloads it makes it more difficult for people to take content on your blog without your permission

however it does not completely secure your content there can still be unauthorized downloads if people use some other tools on your site

It's pretty easy to deploy JW Player and it runs many video formats.

From the user perspective, there are some "skins" that are not so clean but this is easy changed.

JwPlayer always stays up to date with the newest technologies including, streaming of videos and different codecs. Makes it easy to implement multimedia playback on websites and mobile apps.

Sometimes it can be a little difficult to setup advanced features with JWPlayer. Hopefully, they will come out with a standard for DRM protection of videos.

It has clear view of a hd videos and easy to use

It has clear view of a hd videos and easy to use

Its nice flash video player for your own site or blog. Customizable and and also have free version which is good.

Can be more customizable. Paid version is expensive. Need more improvements. Customer support can be better

It was easy to download and has a logical interface and a lot of additional features that I wouldn't expect from a video player .

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 .

Plays almost any video format you throw at it. Easy to use implementation tools. Very stable.

I have not come up against any cons yet.

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The price seemed to be the only thing JWPlayer had going for it. For 60/year I could host 50 videos*.

Storage caps at 50 videos or 25GB. A 2 GB video takes up almost 4GB of storage for some reason. Zero customer support.

This player is the one of outstanding player that i ever had. Pretty features. Easy to use and also high quality application. There are many features have to entertainment your feeling . Great job.

Nothing to say about least things in this application.