Wordtube is one of the best plugins there are, and I’m very grateful for it.
I looked to updating it a few hours ago ( WP 2.9.2 Wordtube 2.2.2 ) and downloaded JW Player 5.1, renamed player-viral.swf to player.swf to get it working and swapped out the old file for the new. I was surprised the new file was 85kib instead of 42kib, but it worked fine with my old videos.
Sadly however, there’s a bug or something, which I couldn’t find in any setting: when paused the old version merely showed a triangle-pause button; the new version had a hideous black & white script with various options for sharing, emailing etc. and this just covers the video screen until continued, without any possibility of getting rid of it.
Not everyone wants to continue a boring video, on the other hand they don’t want to look at that rubbish either. There isn’t the faintest point in my offering sharing etc. anyway, though some may chose to.
I changed back to the previous player.swf and all was working well again. So I wouldn’t recommend upgrading: I’m not even sure if there are any benefits to upgrading since wordtube works so well…