World-renowned developer Jeroen "JW" Wijering co-founded LongTail Video to develop and distribute the worlds best media players. We call them the JW Players. Since the launch of the first JW Player in 2005 (which a little company named YouTube used as their first player), individuals and companies have downloaded nearly five million copies.

So whether you're a webmaster looking for a killer online player thats compatible with dozens of skins and plugins or a consumer seeking the best desktop...

A modal video player utilizing:

- .NET: XML transform of library and video list on page/modal load

- jQuery: XML transform after page load, modal (with Thickbox plugin), click event and DOM manipulation on UI for video controls (slider is jQuery UI)

- Longtail Video, JWPlayer: flash video (FLV) playback, Javascript callbacks

Lots of news this week. We discuss the poor upgrade pricing for version 6 of the Longtail Video JW Player, the good upgrade pricing on NewTek Virtual Set Editor 2 and then have another quick look at CasparCG,  and show how to use Apple Motion for Lower Thirds and much more!