Description

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Video Player Lite is highly customizable video player with lots of adjustable features. It supports self hosted video, audio and image files, 360 reality video and image panorama, Youtube and Vimeo videos and Live Streaming. It can be used as single video player or with playlist support of multiple videos.

Video Player Lite is a powerful video and audio player that supports all kind of embeddable media, from HTML5 video formats to Youtube and Vimeo videos, audio or image files to Apple HLS and MPEG DASH live streaming and 360 virtual reality videos and images.

Player can serve different video quality for both desktop and mobile browers, display video subtitles in multiple langauges, control playback speed, and audio languages for live streaming.

Video Player Lite can contain mixed media inside a playlist, so we can have self hosted videos, Youtube videos and some images mixed inside the same playlist.

Player is packed with a huge amount of features and customization options from different skins, color customization, social sharing, external API, private / password protected videos.

Features and options

• Multiple skins
• Open player as ligthbox
• Responsive and mobile friendly layouts with breakpoints
• Highly customizable with HTML and CSS
• Only mp4 video format required for all browsers and devices
• Media support
• Self hosted video
• Self hosted virtual reality 360 video
• Self hosted images
• Self hosted image panorama 360
• Apple HLS Live Streaming m3u8
• MPEG DASH Live Streaming
• Youtube single videos
• Vimeo single videos
• Self hosted audio
• Playback options:
• random playback
• loop playlist
• playback speed
• start / end time
• multiple playback qualities
• muted mobile autoplay
• autoplay in viewport
• on media end navigate to web url link
• Media end action (next, loop, rewind)
• Mix different media types in playlist
• SVG icons
• Subtitles support for any media (video, audio, Youtube, Vimeo) in vtt / srt format
• Remember playback position on page reload.
• Protect media and video urls with url encryption from source page.
• Video aspect ratio (fit inside, fit outside, original size)
• Keyboard navigation
• Password protected content
• Use native player on mobile
• Display poster on mobile
• Display poster image for Youtube and Vimeo videos
• Social sharing
• Support for multiple instances in the same page
• Minimize video to page bottom on page scroll
• Swipe video to advance
• Stick to bottom on page scroll
• Theater mode (full width video mode)
• Replace wordpress default video player (self hosted, youtube, vimeo)
• API methods to interact with the player on runtime
• Callbacks events during video playback

Changelog / Updates:

VERSION 4.1 [16.4.2021]

 
 - [UPDATE] new keyboard controls selector and keyboard controls only active when cursor above the player (now working with multiple players in page) 
 - [FIX] hls load new video 

VERSION 4.05 [23.3.2021]

 
 - [FIX] live streaming video quality menu duplicating on select quality

VERSION 4.01 [22.12.2020]

 
 - [FIX] live stream video quality change
 - [FIX] Android click unmute button pauses video 

VERSION 4.0 [16.11.2020]

 
 - [FIX] global settings not detected when standalone shortcode was used
 - [ADD] new quick mode shortcode creator for video and player 
 - [ADD] live video thumbnails for html5 video while seeking video
 - [ADD] option to show video title above the player
 - [ADD] new shortcode creator for player api in post area
 - [UPDATE] multiple video player instances in page automatically generated

VERSION 3.11 [26.10.2020]

 
 - [FIX] swipe not working

VERSION 3.1 [19.9.2020]

 
  - [ADD] Guttenberg support, Classic Editor Shortcode Generator
  - [ADD] Widget support 
  - [ADD] custom javascript for the player 

VERSION 3.02 [20.8.2020]

 
  - [FIX] 360 video not saved when editing video

VERSION 3.01 [16.7.2020]

 
  - [ADD] option to show video poster on pause
  - [UPDATE] play 360 video from hls or dash source

VERSION 3.0 [19.4.2020]

 - [FIX] seekbar size calculation 
 - [FIX] mediaEndAction poster keeps duplicating posters
 - [FIX] IOS require double tap on unmute button if controls hidden
 - [CHANGE] video poster is always shown (if exist) regardless of autoplay 
 - [CHANGE] player max width now requires px or % values in field (900px or 70%)
 - [UPDATE] menu items bigger padding for better mobile usability
 - [ADD] option to set custom image preloader over player instead of current css spinner
 - [ADD] player custom classes
 - [ADD] player settings can now be passes with query string (parameters begins with "vpl-")
 - [ADD] create video or playlist from query string parameters   
 - [UPDATE] share specific video in player when used with social networking (direct link to video and current time)
 - [UPDATE] right click context menu update, share url to specific video in player
 - [ADD] resume playback position prompt - ask user to continue watching where left off or start from the beginning 
 - [UPDATE] option to open player from click on any dom element (normal player or lightbox)

VERSION 2.8 [3.3.2020]

 - [ADD] unmute button to unmute the video 
 - [ADD] optional closed caption button in controls to toggle caption state
 - [UPDATE] autoplay in viewport multiple players like facebook
 - [ADD] LIVE indicator in controls for live streams (auto or manual)
 - [ADD] option to disable seekbar to prevent skipping video
 - [FIX] parse vtt with multiline of text

VERSION 2.75 [14.2.2020]

 - [UPDATE] cleaned double autoPlay setting (no more force muted autoplay), autoPlay settings is now reponsible for muted autoplay

VERSION 2.7 [1.12.2019]

 - [FIX] duplicate player, playlist function jquery not defined

VERSION 2.7 [18.11.2019]

– [UPDATE] updates to player resizing (player never larger than viewport)
– [UPDATE] toggle subtitle font size with keyboard controls (+/-)
– [UPDATE] replace wordpress default video (html5, youtube, vimeo)
– [ADD] theater mode
– [ADD] open player in lightbox from any page element

VERSION 2.62 [11.11.2019]

 - [FIX] missing url to touchswipe

VERSION 2.61 [5.11.2019]

 - [FIX] vimeo autoplay after poster

VERSION 2.6 [26.10.2019]

 - [ADD] option to show poster after video end screen (self hosted, youtube, vimeo)
 - [ADD] option to skip poster 

VERSION 2.5 [16.10.2019]

 - [ADD] new optional buttons in controls (rewind, skip backward, skip forward)
 - [UPDATE] set default video quality on mobile
 - [ADD] image support
 - [ADD] load media by media-id API

VERSION 2.31 [2.9.2019]

 - [UPDATE] small code improvements

VERSION 2.3 [28.8.2019]

 - [ADD] audio language menu for live streaming
 - [FIX] small bug fixes and code improvements

VERSION 2.2 [27.7.2019]

 - [UPDATE] all new skins and player core rewritten

VERSION 2.1 [18.3.2019]

 - [ADD] option to store playlist in browser to limit API requests for Youtube, Vimeo
 - [ADD] option to load more videos on total scroll for Youtube and Vimeo

UPDATE 2.05 [28.9.2018]

• [UPDATE] small code improvements

UPDATE 2.02 [2.7.2018]

 - [UPDATE] some code improvements

UPDATE 2.02 [26.05.2018]

 - [FIX] small bug fix

UPDATE 2.01 [10.05.2018]

 - [UPDATE] some code improvements

UPDATE 2.0 [22.03.2018]

 - [UPDATE] all new player layout and code

UPDATE 1.7 [30.6.2017]

• [UPDATE] some vimeo api updates

UPDATE 1.6 [12.6.2017]

• [UPDATE] new vimeo api
• [UPDATE] updated jscrollpane scrollbar

UPDATE 1.4 [15.1.2017]

• [FIX] fixed bug with playlists sometimes got lost
• [UPDATE] improved video mobile playback

UPDATE 1.35 [10.10.2016]

• [FIX] Fixed Youtube Channel bug with more than 50 videos

UPDATE 1.3 [27.9.2016]

• [UPDATE] update compatibility with jquery 3

UPDATE 1.11 [26.6.2016]

• [FIX] Updates on youtube iframe api

28.4.2015

version 1.1

• some css improvements and tooltip changes (which were causing issues with some themes)

21.4.2015

version 1.0

• some admin improvements
• some internal javascript changes

18.3.2015

version 1.0

• first release

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