Bradmax Player

Bradmax Player is a plugin, which supports video streams playback on desktops and mobile devices. If you have access to video streaming in formats:
– HLS
– MPEG-DASH
– MS Smooth Streaming
or simple mp4, webM, ogg files, then you can watch them on your site with Bradmax Player. It is even supporting HLS or MS Smooth Streaming playback on platforms / devices, which
usually not support them. In such cases video is “transconded” on-fly in your browser during playback.

Player support also:

• poster image – Custom image from video, which is displayed on player before playback.
• subtitles – Embedded in HLS, MPEG-DASH, MS Smooth Streaming video stream or from external files in SRT, VTT file formats.
• basic video statistics for Google Analytics – Just paste your Google Analytics tracker id into player settings for collecting information about video views and watched time.
• video chapters & time markers – Extending progressbar with additional information about video chapters or time markers.

Requirements

• A self-hosted website running on WordPress CRM.

Bradmax Player Features

• Embed video streams into a post/page or anywhere on your WordPress site (supported streaming formats HLS, MPEG-DASH, MS Smooth Streaming).
• Embed video files (MP4, WebM, Ogg) into your page.
• Embed responsive videos for a better user experience while viewing from a mobile device.
• Embed videos with poster images.
• Automatically play a video when the page is rendered.
• Embed videos uploaded to your WordPress media library using direct links in the shortcode.
• No setup required, simply install and start embedding videos.
• Lightweight and compatible with the latest version of WordPress
• Clean and sleek player with no watermark.
• Player customisation is available (change skin, colors, logo, etc.). It requires only sign-up on https://bradmax.com/site/en/signup . It’s free and basic version of player is also free.
• Embed video with subtitles (subtitles loaded from stream or from SRT, VTT files).
• Collect basic statistics about video playback in your Google Analytics account.
• Playback of DRM protected video (only in paid version for custom player downloaded from bradmax.com).

Bradmax Player Plugin Usage

In order to embed a video create a new post/page and use the following shortcode:

[bradmax_video url="https://bradmax.com/static/video/tos/big_buck_bunny.m3u8" duration="596" poster="https://bradmax.com/static/images/startsplash.jpg"]

• “url” is the location of your streaming. You need to replace the sample URL with the actual URL of the video stream.
• “duration” contain length in seconds of video, so it can be displayed on player before staring playback.
• “poster” is location of poster image, which should be displayed on player. Replace sample URL with link of your image.

Video playback statistics with Google Analytics

Player can collect basic statistics for video playback. You just need to copy your “Tracking ID” from Google Analytics page into player settings.

For finding “Tracking ID” please open: Google Analytics > Admin > Tracking Info > Tracking Code .

“Tracker ID” is code having form “UA-XXXXXXXX-X”, where X is 0-9 digit and you have to copy it into ga_tracker_id video shortcode option (see section below).

Player collects video playback details as “Events” in your Google Analytics account. There are available in sections:

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