VI Media player (plug-in)
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Now your clients can enjoy a rich media presentation on their sites with a customized player that has many features that you would normally only get with customized programming and an in-depth understanding of Adobe Flash.
This plug-in for Word Press has been updated to include advanced settings you won’t find in free ware products on the web.
Now you have the ability to provide your clients with an easy to use tool that they can use to embed video on their site with ease, and one that provides built-in site map ability so that all the search engines can pick up the content immediately.
VI Embed is a WordPress plugin made to simplify the process of adding videos Flash (FLV/SWF) and NOW with the high quality standards of H.264 codec, into your blog using our VI Media Player.
The plugin and the media player are for commercial use and implementation, all licensing requirements and technical support is supplied with our tools.
Here are just a few reasons why decided to create our own plug in:
- to enforce a standard plugin tag style
- no bells and whistles, this plugin embeds an FLV/SWF or H.264 file and does it the easiest way
- uses highly portable, extensible and future proof tags
- XHTML compliant for those who cares about validation
- Supports Google video sitemap generation, the first WordPress plugin that does this.
- Google Analytics support
- Smoothing support for videos
- Custom FLV Player location
- Optional raw embed code for RSS
- Transparent mode to hide cursor and enable Lightbox to work properly
- User friendly admin panel
Features | Usage | Sitemap | Options | Installation | Support | FAQs |
Features
- uses simple, intuitive tags to generate Flash video (FLV) movies for your posts
- supports video sitemap generation
- standards compliant: valid XHTML
- many options are configurable, such as autostart, show/hide control bar, player colour, poster image, full screen button etc.
- highly interactive admin option panel for player configuration
- supports text only output for RSS that prompt readers to visit the original post for Flash content
- supports outputting poster image for RSS if desired
- accessibility: requires Javascript to display FLV player, but will prompt user to enable Javascript when disabled
- accessibility: prompt user to download latest Flash player if it is not installed or too old
- accessibility: no annoying “click to activate” for IE users
- automatic smoothing feature turned on
- supports Google analytics
- user friendly admin panel
- allows logo overlay (via graphic file upload) with url re-direction upon selection of logo
Usage
This plugin uses one universal, standard tag style:
flv:url width height
- url - the URL of the FLV file you want to embed, the path can either be site-relative or absolute
- width - width of the FLV movie
- height - height of the FLV movie
The VI FLV-Media Player supports poster frame so you can turn on this feature via options if desired. The following two examples show FLV embed with and without poster frame.
