# VideoPlayer plugin for Phonegap #
The video player allows you to display videos from your PhoneGap application.
This command fires an Intent to have your devices video player show the video.
## Adding the Plugin to your project ##
Using this plugin requires [Android PhoneGap](http://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-android).
1. To install the plugin, move www/video to your project's www folder and include a reference to it in your html file after phonegap.js.
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="phonegap.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="video.js"></script>
2. Create a directory within your project called "src/com/phonegap/plugins/video" and move VideoPlayer.java into it.
3. In your res/xml/plugins.xml file add the following line:
<plugin name="VideoPlayer" value="com.phonegap.plugins.video.VideoPlayer"/>
## Using the plugin ##
The plugin creates the object `window.plugins.video`. To use, call the play() method:
/**
* Display an intent to play the video.
*
* @param url The url to play
*/
play(url)
Sample use:
window.plugins.videoPlayer.play("http://path.to.my/video.mp4");
window.plugins.videoPlayer.play("file:///path/to/my/video.mp4");
Note: You cannot play a video from the assets folder on Android.
## RELEASE NOTES ##
### October 2, 2011 ###
* Initial release
## BUGS AND CONTRIBUTIONS ##
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