Cool, Free Video Plugin for WordPress

Great little plug in!! Works every time!

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks Jim. I will give the player a test.

John

Appreciate this Jim.

Seems like I can always count on you for quality, useful ideas and resources.

Thanks Jim.

“We blew some s*** up!” You youngsters…

Thank you very much for sharing. Quite new to your list so this was a nice treat. The plugin videos look very much like Easy Video Player but for free! I’m guessing you recommend using Amazon S3 for hosting media files?

Hey Jim,

Good info, and it’s nice to have a choice between all the WP video players out there. This one looks decent, however the default industry standard for WP seems to be the JW Player. Any thoughts on it, likes, dislikes, etc. Especially now that it fully supports HTML 5 in v 5.10?

About the JW Player:

The JW Player? is the most popular open source video / audio player for the Web. It supports playback of any format the Adobe Flash Player and HTML5 browsers can handle (FLV, H.264, MP4, VP8, WebM, MP3, AAC, JPG, PNG and GIF). It also supports various streaming and playlist formats (including RMTP, HTTP, live streaming and more) and a wide range of playback options. And its support for all of the major CDNs and adaptive bitrate switching mean you can deliver high quality content around the globe.

Take care Jim,

Scott Krech

Jim, You are the best! Thanks so much. You always over-deliver. Whata guy!

Hey, Jim,
Do you archive these tips anywhere? I don’t use WordPress yet, but plan to… Thanks!

Wow, Jim, that was so kind of you to help us with this!!!

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jim,

Thank you for this GREAT tip and for your insights into this wonderful WordPress PlugIn. I’m excited to try this Plugin out for my own website.

With Passion & Conviction,

Wendy

Jim,

This is really awesome!!! Could never get a video to play on my iPhone. Now it works!!!!

Thanks for taking the time to create this post.

Regards
Rodney

Hi Jim,

Thanks for this info on what looks like a terrific plugin.

Since you said the plugin worked on Androids, I decided to try it on my LQ Optimus S (L5670) Android phone (Android 2.3.3). The player didn’t work on my phone. I wish it had. Maybe you have some ideas. It looks like a great player, since it apparently supports many platforms.

I used the Dolphin browser and also tried it in the paid version of Skyfire, which can often handle flv videos, by using its special video button. That’s why I paid for the pro version.

In both browsers it loads the video for ~30 seconds and then announces that it can’t play the video.

In Skyfire, the special video button didn’t even function on this page, as it normally would on other pages I’ve been to.

Still hoping for a “cure”.

Charles

Jim,

Fantastic tip!! I’ve tried several other video plugins and they seem rather clunky. This one looks really simple and effective.

Now, it’s time to grab that cup of coffee you talked about.

Regards,
Richard B

Hey Jim

Great information as always and a first class freebie Thank you for sharing this resource

Cheers
Paul

Thanks Jim, It is very useful one! Thanks for your coffee program!
Regards,
John Cyrus

Thanks Jim.Its just what I needed and its going to save me loads of time and struggle,
Best Regards Denis.

Jim, thanks. I use quite a lot of video plugins and was not aware of this one.

BTW you can include code examples in blog posts. Just paste it between HTML “code” or “blockquote” tags (using HTML editor but might work in WYSIWYG mode too, depending on your editor used). The difference between these tags is that first is meant for citing computer code (listing) and the latter is for citing quotes (e.g. from famous people) and can render with real quotes (characters) on page – but it might give better look and/or indentation (before changing CSS files .

Let’s try blockqoute (you can delete this and below if it doesn’t render well due to comment limitations in WordPress). Notice I’ve used dots in “center” tag – because HTML code still renders in WordPress even in blockqoute and code parts!

MediaElement.js – HTML5 Audio and Video
http://mediaelementjs.com/
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/media-element-html5-video-and-audio-player/

Auto-play
[video mp4="VIDEOLINK" autoplay="true" width="540" height="305"]

Pause at start
[video mp4="VIDEOLINK" poster="PICTURELINK" width="540" height="305"]

One more thing – regarding WordPress changing code (your previous post, inserting Camtasia Studio 8 video – comments are now closed).

That’s the default behaviour in WP (WYSIWYG strips HTML tags it doesn’t like or better to say doesn’t allow in default WP setup). Without messing up with WP internal code and have it modified back with each WP upgrade, check this out:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-code-reformatted-by-visual-editor#post-2748469

E.g. disable default TinyMCE editor and use better alternatives. The code from HTML mode (editor) will be preserved.

I just gotta tell you!

Jim,
This is totally awesome! Thanks for sharing. I’m installing it now.

Thanks Jim,
I will attempt to install this plugin right away. I appreciate your willingness to share this iinformation. I’ll let you know how it’s working for me. Much prosperity to you!

Hey Jim:

I’m using mozilla 10.0.4 and the videos are black and do not play…I’m gonna open IE and see if I can see what everyone else is

Hi Jim,

Thanks for the tip. I love getting the scoop on free plunins – especially ones that work Thanks for trying it out and I can see in your video that it really works.

Great Plugin. Thank you for sharing.

Just gotta ask you… Have you seen Alex Jones’ Gun Show?

Great little plugin indeed! I had found it a while back but forgotten all about it (went into that proverbial “to do” list, ya know?). Thanks for the reminder – I now set up two sites to use this instead of JW Player for vids and great to see them work across all platforms now.

BTW, you may have mentioned it in the past but what is the software you use to do all the drawings, handwriting, etc. during your presentations? That’s some slick stuff!

Thanks again…