JW Player vs FlowPlayer

I am considering using either JW Player or FlowPlayer as the core of our playback for a streaming/video content application.

Requirements:

• Handle high stream volume (10,000+ concurrent viewers)
• Low resource usage (end user)
• Ability to work with prerolled ads
• Customizable interface
• Open source
• High definition playback

Optional (preferable):

• Mobile player (iPhones, Android)
• HTML5 support

Both are c开发者_运维问答omparable in price and features.

Which of these is best? Any other player that is worthy of mention?

I'm not sure which is the best, though I'd look at flowplayer first. Flowplayer has support for pre-rolled ads build in where for JWPlayer it's plugin that you must purchase. Now JWPlayer might be worth the money but at least with Flowplayer you can start at no cost.

also JWPlayer is not Open source - if that's important for you, you have to resort to FlowPlayer.

Update: JW Player's source is available indeed, so you could say it's open source but it is for sure not "Free Software" (and "Open Source" is commonly used as synonym to Free Software even if there are well-known individuals/groups who dislike that).

The JW Player is free for non-commerical use. To buy a license for commercial use, please visit ...

Source: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/svn/tags/mediaplayer-5.9/README.txt

Free Software requires the ability to use the code without any restriction (freedom 0 - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html)

Also with jwPlayer you need to pay to remove the watermark. With FlowPlayer this isnt the case.

I am using Jw Player since v4 and its best for me, you can find source code on github.