Advanced Responsive Video Embedder for Rumble, Odysee, YouTube, Vimeo, Kick … vs WP YouTube Live

The best WordPress plugin for videos? Supports close to everything you can imagine, still keeping it easy & simple. It is very likely the one and only plugin you will ever need to handle video embeds on your WordPress site(s). It goes far beyond just making your videos responsive! Features Classic Editor Adds “Embed Video” button to help you create very powerful [arve] shortcodes. Takes over WordPress embeds with URLs on their own line and [embed] shortcodes. Can take over WP’s default video file embeds. Block Editor (Gutenberg) Works with Embed, YouTube, Vimeo, Shortcode … blocks. Provides it’s own powerful ARVE Block with all the features the [arve] shortcode offers, with a nice UI and detailed settings descriptions. Elementor Provides a widget for the entire feature set of ARVE inside Elementor All Makes your video embeds more secure and enhances visitors privacy. Magically makes videos responsive you already embedded with WordPress default features. SEO friendly, lets you specify title, description, upload date to provide search engines with the schema.org data they like to have for better indexing. Pro can autofill this for you. No ‘lock in’ if you do not use the ARVE Gutenberg Block or [arve] shortcodes. Supports almost every video host that supports iframe embed codes. Embeds via pasting the URL in its own line just like WordPress! Optionally use very powerful Shortcodes instead. Clean shortcode syntax [arve url="https://youtu.be/yUCFRL43Zm4" parameters="start=30" ... /], no unnecessary shortcode wrapping. One shortcode or Block for all video providers. Responsive embeds with CSS, much better than with JavaScript. Tries to be as unobtrusive as possible, sets ‘hide brand’ variables if supported, disables related videos from other channels at the end … to help keep people on your site rather then going to YouTube or keep watching videos. Limited Autoplay (Mobile browsers usually prevent autoplay or allow it only muted. ARVE will automatically mute it but browser settings can still prevent it, even on Desktop) Custom URL parameters to use all options providers offer. Optional maximal width. Video alignment. Detailed description of options in-place. Automatic detected and custom aspect ratio. Supported Providers All providers with iframe embed codes Alugha, Archive.org, Bitchute, Brightcove, Brighteon, Dailymotion, Dailymotion Playlist, DTube, Facebook, Google Drive, mp4 or webm video files, ARVE general iframe embed, IGN, IMDB, Kickstarter, kla.tv, Mail.ru, myspace, v.qq.com, Rumble.com, ok.ru, RuTube.ru, TED Talks, TikTok, Twitch, Viddler, Vimeo, VK, Wistia, XTube, xHamster, Yahoo, Youku, YouTube, YouTube Playlist, Kick Reviews ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Great plugin, great support I’ve been using this plugin (free version and pro add-on) for a few years now. It works very well for my purposes (mainly lazyload and lightbox functionality). Recently I had a support issue with the new version which required some intervention – it was a conflict with my theme. Nico, the developer, went above and beyond to get a fix promptly sorted out for me. Thank you Nico. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The best there is – I have tried many… Have downloaded and paid for at least 4 other video players that use lightbox. Each one has major flaws. This products works perfectly. If you use the OnSite Editor, then just copy the short code and it works great. [arve url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7g8-GxLTSc” /] For speed, the product uses the thumbnails from the server. So many of the other products do NOT do this and it slows the page rendering. This product should appear first on the WordPress search. Spent 3 days of my life wasted on other products, only to delete each one. [review by jodani][16] ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Finally something that works So I have a responsive theme but on pages with you tube videos it wasn’t making the you tube videos fit in the mobile screen. I have spent the last hour trying many plugins and researching on google and finally I installed this. And I didn’t have to update any settings or anything just refreshed a post with videos and all the sudden it is beautiful and responsive on my mobile phone!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! [review by happyecho][16] ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Only Plug-in that worked I used a lot of high ranking plug-ins but they still broke my design. Downloaded this and worked right away. Thanks! ARVE Pro 10% off first year with discount code wporg. This plugin is financed by purchases of ARVE Pro. The development and support of this plugins has become a job for me, so I hope you understand that I can not make all features gratis and that you purchase it to get extra features and support the development. Disable links in embeds (killer feature!) For example: Clicking on a title in a YouTube embed will not open a new tab. Prevent video hosts to lead your visitors away from your site! Lazyload Make your site load faster by loading only an image instead of the entire video player on pageload. Lightbox Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a Lazyload preview image Link ⇾ Lightbox Use simple links as triggers for opening Video Lightboxes Auto pause videos when another video is played Automatic or custom thumbnail images Automatic or custom titles on top of your thumbnails ‘Expand on click’ feature 2 hover & 3 play icon styles Responsive thumbnails (srcset) Feel good about yourself for supporting my 8+ years work on this plugin. Tons of hours, weekends … always worked on improving it Show the latest video of a YouTube channel by using the channel URL (updated/cached hourly) Get ARVE Pro ARVE Sticky Videos Keep videos on the screen when scrolling. Choose if videos should be pinned to the top of the screen. Like the YouTube app for example. For bigger screen choose a corner where a video should be pinned to. Like last.fm for example. Random Video Addon Display random video from: YouTube Playlist Vimeo Showcase Comma separated list of video URLs ARVE AMP When you use the AMP or ‘AMP for WP’ plugin you need this. It will display videos embedded with ARVE on AMP pages correctly No options, just works It creates , , elements For all other video hosts element is used Video files are also supported with Thanks Of course all the customers who bought a addon. Howard Iken of myfloridalaw.com top donor, super nice to me even if I was rude and not deserved it! Ilya Grishkov for bringing up the idea and the first code to cache thumbnail urls. Everybody giving constructive feedback, testing beta versions. Everybody who donated back in the days when this was donation based. Thanks to the developers of the software used in ARVE Bigger Picture, used in Pro Addon

Displays the current YouTube live video from a specified channel via the shortcode [youtube_live]. Setup Notes Your YouTube livestream must be set to “Public” or it will not work. This is a security feature of YouTube’s API and unfortunately there’s no way to work around it. In addition, your live stream must be set to allow embedding on third-party sites. If that feature is unavailable, you may need to enable monetization for your account. See YouTube documentation for more information or help with allowing embedding. How It Works If no live video is available, you can display a specified video or a “channel player” showing all your recent videos. You can also enable auto-refresh to automatically check for a live video every 30 seconds (warning: will increase server load, so use with caution). By default, the server will check YouTube’s API and then cache that response for 15 minutes before checking the API again (you may change this value in the admin settings). If auto-refresh is enabled, clients will check against your server every 30 seconds and likely will hit that cache as well, so it can potentially take up to 16 minutes before a client will get a live video. The length of both caches can be changed using the wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout filter (see below for more information). If no live video is available when a page is loaded, several fallback options are available: “Show a custom HTML message” allows you to specify a custom message to show “Show scheduled live videos” will show a player and countdown until your next live video “Show last completed live video” will show your most recently-completed live video “Show recent videos from my channel” will show a playlist of recent videos from your channel “Show a specified playlist” will show a specified playlist “Show a specified video” will show a specified video “Show nothing at all” will show nothing at all When a video ends, users’ browsers will check your server again to see if a live video is available. If so, it will load that; if not, it will fall back as set in your options. Shortcode Options width: player width in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page height: player height in pixels; defaults to what you set on the settings page autoplay: whether or not to start playing immediately on load; defaults to false auto_refresh: (either true or false) overrides the auto-refresh setting on the settings page fallback_behavior: choose from the following: upcoming, completed, channel, playlist, video, message, no_message upcoming: the next upcoming scheduled video on the specified channel playlist: a specified playlist (shortcode must also include the fallback_playlist attribute) video: a specified video (shortcode must also include the fallback_video attribute) message: a specified message no_message: nothing at all fallback_playlist: a playlist URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_video: a video URL to show when there are no live videos fallback_message: a message to show when there are no live videos js_only: (either true or false) workaround for some caching issues; if a caching plugin (W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, etc.) or proxy (CloudFlare, etc.) caches the HTML while a video is live, visitors may continue to see an old live video even if it has ended. If set js_only is set to true, the server never displays the player code in the initial request and instead sends it in response to uncached ajax requests. This may also result in the video player being slightly delayed on page load due to the extra request, depending on the clients’ bandwidth and latency. Example shortcode: [youtube_live width="720" height="360" autoplay="true"] Filters The filter wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available will customize the message viewers see if there is no live stream currently playing, and takes effect after the fallback_message shortcode attribute is parsed (if fallback_message="no_message" is set in a shortcode, it will override the filter). For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_no_stream_available', 'my_ytl_custom_message' ); function my_ytl_custom_message( $message ) { $message = ' Please check back later or subscribe to our YouTube channel . Check again '; return $message; } The filter wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout is available to customize the cache timeout length in seconds. For example, add this to your theme’s functions.php file to set the cache length to 15 seconds instead of the default 900: add_filter( 'wp_youtube_live_transient_timeout', 'my_ytl_custom_timeout' ); function my_ytl_custom_timeout( $timeout ) { return 15; } Event Listener When a live stream is loaded, the wpYouTubeLiveStarted event is fired; you can use this to create custom front-end features on your site by adding an event listener: window.addEventListener('wpYouTubeLiveStarted', function() { /* your code here */ console.log('stream started'); /* your code here */ }); Development of this plugin is done on GitHub. Pull requests are always welcome.