Video Share VOD – Turnkey Video Site Builder Script vs WP YouTube Lyte

Launch a fully featured video on demand (VOD) platform with the Video Share VOD plugin. This turnkey solution for WordPress allows users to upload, manage, and publish videos effortlessly. From live streaming integration to advanced video management with FFmpeg support, this plugin offers everything needed to create a modern VOD service like Netflix or Hulu. Enhance your site with capabilities for playlists, ads, and video monetization, ensuring a rich viewing experience on any device. Live Video Site Demo Benefits Comprehensive Video Management: Upload, import, and manage videos with powerful tools and user-friendly interfaces. HTML5 and HLS Support: Ensures compatibility across all devices and browsers, including mobile platforms. Ad Integration: Monetize your videos through HTML5 VAST support for ads, including Google DoubleClick and AdSense. Custom Playlists and Taxonomies: Organize videos into playlists and categories, enhancing discoverability and user engagement. Interactive Video Features: Allow viewers to rate and review videos, integrating with the Rate Star Review plugin for community feedback. Monetization Options: Set up creator subscription models, pay-per-view, and ad-supported structures to generate revenue from your video content. Advanced Video Processing: Utilize FFmpeg for video conversions, thumbnail generation, and video previews, ensuring high performance outputs. Seamless Integration: Works with BuddyPress for social media capabilities, and other plugins like MicroPayments/FansPaysite for advanced monetization. Customizable Access Control: Define who can view or upload content based on user roles or subscription levels, with detailed access lists. Special Requirements: This plugin requires FFmpeg access on the web host. Main features including generating video snapshots, preview clips, video watermarks, custom HTML5 video conversions, HLS segmentation are not possible without FFmpeg. Key Features adds video post type to WordPress site shortcodes, pages with video site features: browse videos, upload, import extracts thumbnail, generates feature image generates thumbnail sized short video preview (play on mouse hover) extracts info: duration, resolution, bitrate, file size multiple playback methods playlist taxonomy, listing of videos with rest of posts in categories, tags, searches shortcodes for listing videos, displaying player, upload form, import form HTML5 VAST (video ad serving template) support for video ads HTML5 Google IMA support: DoubleClick & AdSense support premium users that don’t see ads mass video upload mass video import (from server) setup user types that can share videos pending video / approval for user types that can’t publish directly conversion queue for server load control configure codecs and encoding options, formats, bitrate BuddyPress activity for adding video see more Video Share VOD Features … Listings AJAX display and update of video list (does not reload site for filter, sort, next page) video preview in list (play on hover) Filter by category, tags, name search Sort by date, views, recently viewed, random, rating, rating number, rate popularity integrates Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings VOD Access Control : Membership, Sales define global video access list (roles, user emails & ids) role playlists: assign videos as accessible by certain roles exception playlists: free, registered, unpublished show preview and custom message when inaccessible read more about Video On Demand … integrates MicroPayments – Content, Membership, Downloads plugin to allow selling items Players HTML5 video conversion and playback support HLS playback support HD video support (player adapts to video size) HTML5 native tag player Video.js player (8.x) with VAST support MediaElement.js (WordPress default video player) PLupload / HTML5 Video Uploader Drag & Drop AJAX (no Submit, page reload required to upload more videos) multi video support status / progress bar for each upload fallback to standard upload for older browsers mobile video upload (iOS6+, Android 3+) backend multi upload menu read more about Video Uploader … Plugin Integrations Paid Videochat turnkey pay per minute cam site builder: publish streaming recordings, videos on room profile, teaser loop video Broadcast Live Video turnkey live streaming site builder: publish channel streaming archives MicroPayments Content and Membership: sell videos as WooCommerce products or with MyCred Sell Content Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings: allow users to rate videos and leave reviews Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming Plugin integrates with Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming channels plugin import archived video streams (previous broadcasts) upload additional videos for each channel list videos on channel page channel button on video page (if channel exists) read more about Live Streaming … see Broadcast Live Video turnkey solution … Webcam Recording Plugin integrates with VideoWhisper Video Posts Webcam Recorder for video recording integrates with VideoWhisper Video Comments Webcam Recorder for video recording comments (including in BuddyPress activity) recorder access shortcode “videowhisper_recorder” integrates VideoShareVOD sharing permissions read more about Video Posts Webcam Recorder … External Service Dependencies Google Interactive Media Ads libraries are required to load from Google domains when feature is enabled, to prevent “Error: IMA SDK is either not loaded from a google domain or is not a supported version.” . Service terms: https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/client-side/terms Special Hosting Requirements FFmpeg and HTML5 codecs are required to generate snapshots, preview clips and convert videos to HTML5 formats. Latest FFmpeg is recommended with video & audio codecs for HTML5 & video types you plan to upload. Conversions require important resources like CPU time, memory, long process time (not available on budget shared hosting). These must be available and enabled for the account processes. High upload size and script timeout limits on web host to allow uploading bigger files. Importing videos (uploaded with FTP or other tools) is recommended for very big files. CloudFlare or similar services are not recommend due to upload limitations. Will usually break bigger uploads. Optionally, to deliver videos as live streaming a server like Wowza SE is required that will provide access at a HLS address from video path. Optionally, plugin can also generate static HLS segments, using extra disk space and initial processing resources. read more about Video Share VOD Hosting … Security Warning: Hosts that include FFmpeg access should also have specific security configuration in place. That can include CageFS and other restriction/isolation tools. Documentation Video Site Plugin Homepage Turnkey Video Site Installation Tutorial Developer Contact Recommended Hosting Shortcodes videowhisper_videos playlist=”” perpage=”” perrow=”” – Video list. videowhisper_upload playlist=”” category=”” owner=”” – Upload form. videowhisper_player video=”0″ – Video player. videowhisper_preview video=”0″ – Preview only. videowhisper_player_html source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – HTML file player. videowhisper_embed_code source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – Embed code HTML player. For more details see Video Share VOD – Documentation menu after installing plugin. 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WP YouTube Lyte allows you to “lazy load” your video’s, by inserting responsive “Lite YouTube Embeds”. These look and feel like normal embedded YouTube, but only call the “fat” YouTube-player when clicked on, thereby reducing download size & rendering time substantially when embedding YouTube occasionally and improving page performance dramatically when you’ve got multiple YouTube video’s on one and the same page. The plugin can be configured to cache YouTube thumbnails locally, improving both performance and privacy. As such LYTE embedded YouTube videos do not require requests to the YouTube servers, probably (I am not a lawyer) allowing for better GDPR-compliance. The plugin picks up on normal YouTube links, taking over from WordPress core’s oEmbed. Alternatively you can add a YouTube-link for a video or an entire playlist with “httpv” instead of “http(s)” or add a Lyte widget to your sidebar and WP YouTube Lyte replaces that link with the correct performance-optimized code. Some examples: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY (normal video embed) httpv://youtu.be/_SQkWbRublY (video embed with youtube-shortlink) httpa://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY (audio only embed) httpv://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA486E741B25F8E00 (playlist embed) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY#stepSize=-1 (video player, one size smaller than what’s configured as default) httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SQkWbRublY?start=20&showinfo=0 (video player, start playing at 20 seconds and don’t show title) Or using shortcodes: [lyte id='_SQkWbRublY' /] [lyte id='_SQkWbRublY' audio='true' /] [lyte id='A486E741B25F8E00' playlist='true' /] WP YouTube Lyte has been written with optimal performance as primary goal, but has been tested for maximum browser-compatibility (iPad included) while keeping an eye on accessibility. Starting with version 1.2.0 lyte embeds are fully responsive and can automatically embed videoObject microdata as well. The plugin is fully multi-language, with support for Catalan, Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Romanian, Spanish and Slovene. Feedback is welcome; see info in the faq for bug reports/ feature requests and feel free to rate and/or report on compatibility on wordpress.org.