Yahoo! has announced Yahoo! WebPlayer‘s first beta version recently. This media player is one of the most powerful media player based on the Web which has been written in Javascript and HTML. One can find varied support from this player may it be for audio or video media services and formats. To list a few, WMA, MP3, YouTube and Yahoo! Video files get support from the player. That is not all. It is a universal and flexible media player which has features of the advanced technology, helping a user to add relevant videos to one’s Web pages automatically.
Yahoo! WebPlayer’s working is easy. Any developer, blogger or a publisher can add this player to their respective sites with ease. They just have to add one line of code to their site. Once the player is added to their sites and a page loads, the page is scanned by the player for any playable content it supports. These contents then get a ‘play’ button next to them. If one clicks the ‘play’ button, a slick in-page player opens up thats streams each and every playable item in the playlist which is unified.
Adding videos to this player is even very easy and the complex procedures to embed other media players which support various formats, is eased. With this player, one doesn’t have to remember any special syntaxes and to find the most relevant videos as per their content is even at ease. For an example, one can visit Yahoo! And play a live example on the Movies’ page on Yahoo! API provided for the player is even quite comprehensive which allows mixed-media playlists, creating mashups programmatically and much more.
Yahoo! WebPlayer is basically the next-gen Yahoo! Media Player. The latter is already in use by many bloggers and publishers, which powers the music and audio experience on the websites. This would mean that it has a better stand as compared to YouTube which only supports YouTube content. However the usage of this player would not be supportive for Posterous, MySpace, Facebook or hosted WordPress sites for the time being as there is limited access of HTML and JavaScript.
Yahoo! still claims that they will be at their innovating best for the times to come and one would see many more features being added up to this next-gen player. Additionally, many content partners and categories would even be in the added list for the player. The innovation would even be at a rapid pace as commented on by Yahoo!
Yahoo! terms this next-gen player to be a part of a Yahoo! suite of products. This suite has as always been of great help for the publishers by allowing them to improve upon the engagement and user experience while using content, tools and technologies of Yahoo!
Yahoo! is definitely trying to improve its related services which keeping its search engine on an average high. This may be because these related services give Yahoo! a better stand to give its competitors a tough fight. It will still be awaited as to how its competitors respond to this unique ‘playing’ concept of Yahoo!
One can download this player from here and for additional writeups for setup and usage, one can click on this link.