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Video Player
Developer
3rd Party (Commercial)
Compatibility
- LG Addon Updater
- Multi Site Manager
- Stand Alone Entry Form
Requirements
Tags
Video Player is a fieldtype for ExpressionEngine that lets you add videos from the Internet to your ExpressionEngine website, in a snap. This new version features video search from the Internet right from the control panel, and adds Matrix compatibility.
Empower you ExpressionEngine website with social video from YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion & other video services. Have fun with Video Player !
Key Features
- Search online videos from ExpressionEngine
- Ready for mobile, iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch
- Get video metadata : thumbnails, duration, plays, author, ...
- Supports most popular video services
- Compatible with Matrix & SafeCracker
Search online videos from ExpressionEngine
Video Player lets you search videos from the Internet, right from the ExpressionEngine Control panel. Select the video that you want to use from the results in order to add it to one of your entries.
You can also access the meta data video from your template tags, thanks to the API support. Video Player tags let you display details about video title, thumbnail, description, duration, play count, and more… See the documentation for the full list of supported meta data.
Please note that for now, video search & API support are only working with Youtube and Vimeo. For other video services, you will have to provide the video page URL.
HTML5 & Mobile ready
Video Player plays nice with HTML5 & mobile devices like the iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch. But actually, you don’t care ! It’s handled automatically as long as the video service is offering an universal embed tag.
The add-on uses the universal iFrame embed tag that YouTube, Vimeo & Dailymotion are providing for HTML5 support & Flash fallback.
Supported video services and features
Video Player for ExpressionEngine supports the most popular video sharing platforms :
YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Veoh, MetaCafe, MySpace and Revver
Each video service has a specific level of feature implementation. The table below will help you understand which features are supported for each service.
- Direct URL : Define a video from its video page URL
- Mobile Ready : Supports non-flash devices such as iPad & iPhone
- Search : Search videos right from the EE Control Panel
- Metadata : Additional data available such as duration, plays, author, ...
- Thumbnails : One or more thumbnail images available for the video
Compatible add-ons
Matrix (Pixel & Tonic)
This add-on lets you create repeatable fields in ExpressionEngine. You could for example bind a collection of videos to an entry with only one field !
Learn more about Matrix »
Safe Cracker (ExpressionEngine)
Video Player can be used in your entry forms and lets your visitors & members contribute by posting videos.
Learn more about Safe Cracker »
Video Player Links
This entry was last updated May 17, 2012, 4:43 am.
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6 Reviews:
David G 05.20.11
Wonderful addon! Makes adding video content drop-dead easy for clients. The built-in search of Youtube and Vimeo is amazing. This sets a new standard.
Boulevards 05.10.11
Great support. Great add-on. Perfect for our editors.
I recommend doing business with Duktee. After opening the forum thread “Video Browser doesn’t appear” we received comprehensive support and a successful iteration of the add-on that works great. Thanks, Benjamin.
JCDerrick 11.10.10
Great add-on, works just as described. The documentation has been updated to help avoid problems like described below.
AdamB 11.07.10
@Nick
I agree, if you follow these 2 simple details, this add-on works great. Thanks for the add-on! This will save me time!
bjornbjorn 09.20.10
Nick – it will work as advertisied if you 1) make sure your custom field has text formatting: None + the setting “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into links?” turned OFF in your channel / weblog settings. Yup, this should be mentioned in the docs, I agree.
Nick F 09.02.10
I have never been able to get this to work. If you create your Youtube link as a custom field inside the {exp:videoplayer…} tags, it always outputs “<a >“ — completely broken.
Seems to be no support either.