JW Player module now supports plugins

The JW Player module, which is currently in development for Drupal 7 has just got the feature of being able to support plugins for presets. With this feature, it is possible to plug in all the add ons availabe from Longtail video.

JW Player plugins

There is also a Drupal preset plugin created for Google Analytics Pro2 JW player available in my sandbox. Custom modules can implement plugins by using the newly introduced hook_jw_player_plugin_info() in the JW Player module. The format to use this hook as described in jw_player.api.php is:

/**
 * Implements hook_jw_player_plugin_info()
 *
 * @return array Associative array of plugins keyed by actual plugin id
 */
function hook_jw_player_plugin_info($preset) {
  // Create a plugin keyed by its actual plugin id
  $plugins['foo'] = array(

    'name' => t('Foobar'),

    'description' => t('A plugin to do foobar'),

    // Note: Each option should be in a valid FAPI format, as it is directly referenced in the preset settings form,

    // except the '#title' may be omitted for the name of the option to be taken as default

    'config options' => array(

      'accountid' => array(

        '#type' => 'textfield',

        '#required' => TRUE,

        '#size' => 15,

        '#default_value' => 'bar'

      ),

      'param2' => array(

        '#type' => 'select',

        '#options' => array('TRUE' => 'TRUE', 'FALSE' => 'FALSE'),

        '#default_value' => 'TRUE',

        '#description' => t('Enables the controls on an item when playing')),

    ),

  );

  return $plugins;

}

As described above, the plugin is an associative array keyed by its actual plugin name as required by the player. The data basically consists of a friendly name and description, followed by configurable options that the site-administrator/editor can set per preset, which would look something like:

JW Player preset settings

If the preset plugin is enabled, when viewing the source code of your page that contains a JW Player video, you should be able to see the plugin added to the player code; something like: