Presto Player vs mb.YTPlayer for background videos

Turn ordinary videos into a polished, branded viewing experience. Build customizable video experiences for your WordPress website Presto Player is a WordPress video player that helps you add fast, on-brand video to your site — built natively for the Block Editor and every major page builder. Use it for course lessons, landing pages, marketing videos, and customer testimonials — anywhere you want clean, on-brand playback you control. Presto Player is built for: Marketers Online course creators Coaches / trainers Bloggers eCommerce store owners Niche sites Businesses Local businesses Startups Personal brands Real estate agents Artists & photographers Any website with video Presto Player is built on WordPress, an open platform you fully control. Features Built specifically for the Block Editor. Works with all page builders Custom Elementor & Beaver Builder modules. Multiple video presets. HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo video support. LMS Learner controls. LearnDash Video Progression Multilingual Captions. Player branding. Custom poster images. Lazy load HTML5 and YouTube video for better performance. Kadence Theme Integration RankMath Integration AutomatorWP Integration Global video hub. Pro Features Secure, self-hosted private video for logged-in users. Public and private video via Bunny.net. HLS Adaptive Streaming. Video analytics. Google analytics integration. Muted autoplay preview Video chapters. Custom video presets. Bunny.net integration. Why Presto Player? Free to start — Presto Player is free, so you can add video to your site without a monthly subscription. Open and WordPress-native — Presto Player is built on top of WordPress, so your player settings, content, and data live in your own site. You own your data — Your videos and viewer data stay on your domain and under your control. Join the Presto Player community Join our Facebook group to learn how other Presto Player users grow their businesses and to get early news on upcoming features. Terms And Conditions | Privacy Policy External services Presto Player can connect to the third-party services below. Each connection, the data that is sent, and when it happens are described here. YouTube and Vimeo (only when you embed their videos): Embedding a YouTube or Vimeo video loads that video from the service in the visitor’s browser, which sends the visitor’s IP address and playback interactions to that service. This only happens for videos you choose to embed. YouTube: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Vimeo: Terms of Service and Privacy Policy Usage tracking (opt-in, disabled by default): If you explicitly opt in, the plugin periodically sends non-sensitive environment data — such as PHP and WordPress versions, active plugins and theme, site locale, and which plugin features are used — to Brainstorm Force to help improve the product. It is off until you give consent, and you can opt out at any time. Usage tracking details and Privacy Policy Feedback survey (optional): The plugin may show an in-dashboard NPS feedback survey. If you choose to submit it, your rating and optional comment are sent to Brainstorm Force. Privacy Policy License activation (Presto Player Pro only): If you use Presto Player Pro, activating or validating your license contacts the Presto Player account server to verify the license key for your site URL. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

A Chrome-less Youtube® video player that let you play any YouTube® video as background of your WordPress® page or post. You can activate it for your home page from the settings panel (no license needed) or on any post or page using the short code (need the Plus version) as described in the Reference section of the settings. If you prefer to use a Vimeo video you can take a look at mb.VimeoPlayer WordPress plug-in note: If you don’t want ADs on your background video and you are the owner of it you can disable this on your Youtube channel as explained here: http://candidio.com/blog/how-to-remove-ads-from-your-youtube-videos . demo: See the Youtube background video in action! video: See a short video tutorial pupunzi blog: Go to my blog pupunzi site: Go to my site This plug in has been tested successfully on: Chrome 11+, Firefox 7+, Opera 9+ on Mac OsX, Windows and Linux Safari 5+ on Mac OsX IE7+ on Windows (via Adobe Flash player) To set your homepage background video: Go to the mbYTPlayer settings panel (you can find it under the “settings” section of the WP backend. set the complete YT video url set all the other parameters as you need. You can also set it by placing a shortcode in the home page via the YTPlayer shortcode window (Plus version). You can open it by clicking on the YTPlayer button in the top toolbar of the page editor. To set a video as background of a post or a page: Use the editor button or write the below shortcode into the content of your post or page (Plus version): [mbYTPlayer url=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2rifmjZuKQ” ratio=”4/3″ mute=”false” loop=”true” showcontrols=”true” opacity=1] @ url = the YT url of the video you want as background @ ratio = the aspect ratio of the video 4/3 or 16/9 @ mute = a boolean to mute the video @ loop = a boolean to loop the video on its end @ showcontrols = a boolean to show or hide controls and progression of the video @ opacity = a value from 0 to 1 that set the opacity of the background video @ id = The ID of the element in the DOM where you want to target the player (default is the BODY) @ quality: small: Player height is 240px, and player dimensions are at least 320px by 240px for 4:3 aspect ratio. medium: Player height is 360px, and player dimensions are 640px by 360px (for 16:9 aspect ratio) or 480px by 360px (for 4:3 aspect ratio). large: Player height is 480px, and player dimensions are 853px by 480px (for 16:9 aspect ratio) or 640px by 480px (for 4:3 aspect ratio). hd720: Player height is 720px, and player dimensions are 1280px by 720px (for 16:9 aspect ratio) or 960px by 720px (for 4:3 aspect ratio). hd1080: Player height is 1080px, and player dimensions are 1920px by 1080px (for 16:9 aspect ratio) or 1440px by 1080px (for 4:3 aspect ratio). highres: Player height is greater than 1080px, which means that the player’s aspect ratio is greater than 1920px by 1080px. default: YouTube selects the appropriate playback quality. mb.YTPlayer Plus With the Plus version you’ll get: Remove the water-mark from the video Set the video opacity Set the video quality Set the video aspect ratio Set the video start point Set the video end point Show the control bar Choose the full screen behavior Set the starting audio volume Choose if the video should start mute or not Choose if the video should loop Add a raster image over the video Track the video views on Google Analytics Choose if the player should pause if the windows blur Add any YTPlayer video as background of any page or as backgraund of any element of your page enabling the short-code editor. Use the YTPlayer to display a clean Youtube video as player (via short-code). What about mobile The mb.YTPlayer now works on mobile devices! The video starts as soon the device screen is touched.