I made a JW Flash Player skin if anyone is interested

They're actually pretty easy to make, I know a lot of people, myself included don't really use our own players anymore but as usual I was bored.

It looks like this:


And you can get it here:
http://chaoticsignal.com/2012/10/25/jw-flash-player-skin-skinimal/

That is all.

I like it!

I saw that Flowplayer has had some major updates recently, but I think you need to have pretty specific requirements in order to need your own player nowadays. YouTube/Vimeo are so easy to throw videos at and have them scaled in quality, for mobile etc all in one go.

I have been playing about with the new flowplayer, which looks really nice (and was the inspiration for this skin) and it seems to work well as an HTML5 player but seems to be really difficult to get to actually work as a flash player correctly, even then it doesn't support streaming.

But yea, the main reason for the skin was to update all of the old videos on my site as I'm not going to put them on youtube. The only reason I used to host my own videos was to get better quality and aspect ratios, but Youtube has basically taken over in that regard.

I don't know what I was thinking, I made a much better version:


For the few