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Changes: Instream playback support makes it possible to insert pre-rolls, mid-rolls, and post-rolls into the main media stream. This is typically used for advertising. Playlists can be now read from RSS feeds and SMIL files. It is possible to use external configuration files. These are useful when embedding the player with minimal configuration shown in the embedding HTML page. This release also contains several bugfixes.

Changes: This release adds a skinning framework and a new skin called "Tube", a JavaScript-based control bar, a streaming plugin extension framework, and new plugins for bandwidth detection, server clustering, and secure streaming. Secure streaming enables protecting video files from direct downloading and hot linking. Several bugfixes and small enhancements have been applied to the older plugins.

Changes: You can now associate a link with the player canvas. This makes it possible to show ads in the player canvas. There are new bugfix releases of the playlist JavaScript plugin, flashembed Flash embedding tool, and jquery.scrollable. There are new versions of the control bar and pseudostreaming Flash plugins, fixing some issues that were found by users. In particular, the pseudostreaming plugin has important fixes if you are using it to stream H.264 encoded videos.

Changes: Scripting support was improved for the play button laid over the video area. The license key in the commercial version now works on all levels of subdomains. Several bugs were fixed. There are new versions of the flashembed Flash embedding tool, the playlist plugin, and the embed plugin.

Changes: This release has a couple of important fixes to the core player and to the control bar plugin. The control bar also has a new API method that allows you to disable the buttons and other control widgets from JavaScript.