Smiling Video player and video content
Smiling.Video is a “third generation” web platform for the publishing and distribution of high quality videos of breaking news, sport, entertainment, fashion, travel, cooking, etc. Smiling.Video supplies high quality videos of different categories – sports, news, cinema, movie & Tv, music etc – to publishers directly inside the WordPress articles. Or creating a personal videogallery. Everything without fixed costs for the editor. To all content providers – whether you are a Sport League, concert organizer, video journalist or videomaker – Smiling.Video allows you to earn through your video distribution over hundred of italian websites and worldwide. Service is available here: https://platform.smiling.video for publishers and content providers. Feel free to register as company or as individual and get access to videos. As content provider, you are allowed to upload your videos and get a revenue share on your video views. As publisher, you are allowed to get the HTML snippet code for embedding the video player in your site pages and get a revenue share on video views too. This WordPress plugin is a tool useful to publishers for automatically embedding HTML snippet code into wordpress pages during editing with no need to copy/paste snippet code from smiling video platform to WordPress page editor. The plugin is based on a Web Service API provided by https://platform.smiling.video. Such API suggests a list of video related to the current article content. The only mandatory property is the article title. Plugin Configuration after install you have a new menu item called “Smiling Video” in such window, fill in username (“Smiling Video User”) and password (“Smiling Video Password”) fields. press “Salva le modifiche” to save them Plugin usage go to WordPress page editor fill in page title (i.e. “Star Wars”) press button “Smiling Video” a window containing the gallery of suggested videos will appear press “inserisci codice” to select one of them a code snippet marked between [smiling_video] and [/smiling_video] will appear. Do not change it. continue editing the page adding article text or other videos save the page and publish it you will see the video player showing the selected video preview Good editing and enjoy a full set of videos!
Spreebie Transcoder – Resize, Compress and Store Video
The role of video as the premier mode of communication and information transmission in the year 2019 has now become uncontested. Video informs all aspects of our lives, from how we communicate with our loved ones to how radio stations stream content to their ‘listeners’. The monumental task for content providers today is to provide video in a manner in which it is accessible to everyone – not providing video is totally out of the question. A large part of this is of course driven by the all internet-based media distribution platforms that have sprouted up since 2005. Video has become so instrumental and so effective that it has even triggered the biggest learning cycle in human history. So, the important test for content providers is fundamentally related to access – global access. Pertaining to internet infrastructure, different places in the world are at different stages of development – all those people have to have access to the same content. Providing video at resolutions that deal with these scenarios can be what separates a content providers from their competition. The MP4 video format and FFmpeg have matured tremendously over the past 15 years. MP4 has become the de facto video format on the web and FFmpeg is the goto transcoding tool for some of the biggest video distribution platforms in the world. Just because of the lay of the land in 2019, it is important to use video on your site to interact with your visitors in ways that they can relate to and understand. Communicating in a standard way using the MP4 video format and making sure those videos can be provided in sizes and rates that respond to individual users’ needs and circumstances is imperative. WordPress is now running on 30% of all websites – in a way, it has become a kind of web operating system. This means that it has become unavoidable and thinking about creating new products and dedicated implementations of existing products for WordPress is imperative. The combination of better video transcoding technology, standard (popular) video containers, cloud storage services and a web dominated by a very powerful WordPress was fertile soil to create Spreebie Transcoder. Features Resizing – Spreebie Transcoder resizes video to lesser resolutions. For example, a 360p video will get 240p and 144p copies. Compression – Spreebie Transcoder has adjustable settings to determine the quality of video and the speed at which transcoding happens. This results in compression to varying degrees depending on what settings have been chosen. Google Cloud Storage – If you choose to, transcoded video can be stored on Google Cloud Storage as a backup. Folders – Spreebie Transcoder supports WP Real Media Library that brings folder functionality to WordPress media. Support and Manual – Spreebie Transcoder provides a support tab through which users can request support from Spreebie representatives. A comprehensive manual is also provided to help users with most of the questions they may have. This plugin requires FFmpeg to work. THIRD PARTY PRODUCT AND SERVICE NOTE: When storing already transcoded video on the cloud with this plugin, a third party service called Google Cloud Storage (https://cloud.google.com/storage/) is used for storage. A number of open-source PHP libraries from various sources are packaged within Spreebie Transcoder in the folder “vendor” in order to facilitate Google Cloud Storage functionality. Google Cloud Storage in this plugin ONLY works for cloud storage – the rest of the plugin can function without it. Another third party product which is not included with this plugin but is its centre is FFmpeg is (https://www.ffmpeg.org/) – this is used to perform all the video analysis and transcoding. Without FFmpeg, this plugin cannot function. The last third party product that can be used in tandem with this plugin but is not included with it is WP Real Media Library (https://matthias-web.com/wordpress/real-media-library/). This can be used to organise your transcoded media into folders. Spreebie Transcoder does not need WP Real Media Library to function.
