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Free Plugin by rodrigopolo v1.4.1

Stream Video Player

Stream Video Player for WordPress its one stop solution for high quality video publishing for web or iOS.

Stream Video Player

The facts

Rating
2.6★ from 20
Active installs
600+
Price
Free
Last updated
28 Nov 2017
Added
Jul 2009
Requires WP
2.8.0
Tested up to
WP 4.1.42
Downloads
356,266

Our analysis

AI-assisted

Stream Video Player is a WordPress plugin designed for embedding video and audio content on your site. It supports XML playlists, subtitles, and is compatible with mobile devices, including iOS and Android. The plugin allows for random access to video content without needing to load the entire video first, making it suitable for users who want a flexible media player on their website.

The plugin is particularly aimed at those who need a straightforward solution for integrating video content, such as bloggers, educators, or content creators. It includes features like social sharing and an embed code generator, which can enhance user engagement with video content.

Best for: This plugin suits bloggers and content creators looking to embed video and audio content on their WordPress sites.

What it does well

  • Supports XML playlists and subtitles
  • Compatible with mobile devices
  • Allows random access to video content
  • Includes social sharing options
  • Easy to use with an embed code generator

Where it falls short

  • Last updated in November 2017
  • Rating of 2.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings
  • Limited active installs at 600

Verdict

Stream Video Player offers essential features for embedding media but has a low rating and limited updates, which may affect its reliability.

From the developer

rodrigopolo's own description of Stream Video Player, lightly tidied.

Stream Video Player for WordPress is by far the best and most complete video-audio player plug-in for WordPress with XML Playlist support and subtitles, Easy to use with a tag generator in the editor, support for viewing on iOS and Android, support for YouTube and Pseudo-Streaming so you can randomly seek any place of your videos without having to load the entire video before.

Features

  • iOS, Android, WPTouch, MobilePress, YouTube and feeds compatible.
  • HTML5 video tag for mobile devices
  • 100% Responsive and Retina Ready!
  • Embed code generator for any video.
  • Captions (subtitles) capable.
  • XML Playlist.
  • Social sharing and video URL sharing.
  • Random access to any position on the video thanks to the pseudo streaming technique
  • Skins capable thanks to JW Media Player it can load SWF and XML-PNG custom skins.
  • Based on a very fine tuned custom build (fork) of the JW Media Player Version 5.3.
  • Only open source software needed for video encoding.
  • JW Media Player plug-ins supported.
  • 100% Standard XHTML code.
  • Check this demo.

Important Links

Translators

Special note

If the player doesn’t show, download the SWF files and put them on the plugin directory.
http://example.com/wp-content/plugins/stream-video-player/
|– player.swf
|– yt.swf
+– plugins
| |– captions.swf
| |– gapro.swf
| |– hd.swf
| |– ltas.swf
| |– qualitymonitor.swf
| +– sharing.swf
+– skins
|– beelden.zip
|– dangdang.swf
|– imeo.swf
|– lulu.zip
|– modieus.zip
+– stormtrooper.zip

Because many many users ask for more capabilities I decided to use (instead of the original swf video player I made) a custom build of the JW Player which uses license CC-NC-SA 3.0 which is a non-GPL compatible license and because that It can’t be included on the WordPress directory. The first workaround to fix this was to host the SWF files in other site, but this leads to cross-domain issues and an excessive bandwidth use of my hosting account, so I decided to make the plug-in download the download the SWF files for you on the first run, if you run into troubles check your plug-in directory permissions.

Also notice that the version of JW Player (5.7.1896) used in this plug-in is licensed as Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ – You can use their player freely for personal or non-commercial use. Put it on your personal blog, non-profit, or government website and let the video role. But if you advertise on your site or it’s owned by a business, then you have to purchase a commercial license.

Read more about JW Player License: http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/license/

Credits

Copyright 2014 by RodrigoPolo.com

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

Read the full description on the official page →

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