Wowza Video (platform integration) plugin

The Wowza Video platform integration plugin makes it easier to integrate the videos and players you've created within Wowza Video with your development chain. For example, video metadata is included when you use the plugin instead of needing to use the API to fetch the metadata.

The plugin also allows a mixing of managing configuration via the platform so that non-technical team members can easily configure players and there's the ability to build deep integrations on top of our platform.

Last, the plugin maximizes performance by reducing the number of API calls and batching requests into composite responses without the need to worry about both maintaining your integration, an integration with our API, and performance integrations yourself.

Manual JavaScript setups

Include the plugin next to the core player:

<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/flowplayer.min.js"></script>
<!-- load HLS plugin as platform videos default to HLS -->
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/plugins/hls.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/plugins/ovp.min.js"></script>
<!-- load additional plugins if needed
<script src="//cdn.flowplayer.com/releases/native/3/stable/plugins/ads.min.js"></script>
-->

ID-based media sources

The Wowza Video plugin is a loader plugin, which means that it loads a particular src type that is otherwise not supported in the native HTMLVideoElement. Specifically, this plugin allows you to use a media_id from your Wowza Video account with the Wowza Flowplayer.

Media IDs can be retrieved through the Player API or from the url of the Video Details page in the platform. The format of the URL is https://app.wowza.com/videos/<media_id>.

flowplayer(container,
  { token : "keyboardcat"
  , src   : "<media_id>"
  })

This also works for playlist IDs in JavaScript embeds using the playlist plugin.

Composite media ID and player ID sources

In addition to allowing you to use the platform media_ids, the plugin can perform auto-merging of a Wowza Video platform player design with a media source inline, reducing the total number of API calls so your video player can start playback as soon as possible.

You can get your player_id from the player design url https://app.wowza.com/players/<player_id>.

flowplayer(container,
  { token : "keyboardcat"
  , src   : "<player_id>/<media_id>"
  })

Recommendations

The Wowza Video plugin retrieves recommended videos based on the loaded video. When a list of videos is available, the recommendationsready event is emitted. You can enable recommendations with the recommendations option.

flowplayer(container,
  { token               : "keyboardcat"
  , src                 : "<player_id>/<media_id>"
  , recommendations     : true
  })