api.video

With <a href="https://api.video" rel="nofollow ugc">api.video</a>, managing videos on your WordPress website becomes a breeze. This powerful tool handles all the aspects of video management seamlessly. It automatically converts your videos into the optimal format, ensuring they look great on any screen. Not only that, but it also securely stores your videos and delivers them to viewers around the world using a reliable global network. To top it off, api.video offers a free, fully customizable web player, giving you complete control over how your videos are presented to your audience. Say goodbye to the complexities of video management and enjoy a hassle-free experience with api.video.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Upload videos–up to 4k–directly from your WordPress admin; they’ll be quickly encoded and ready for streaming in seconds.</li>
<li>Select previously uploaded videos from your api.video library.</li>
<li>Update video titles, descriptions, and even tags from your WordPress admin.</li>
<li>Embed videos with our responsive HTML5 player.</li>
</ul>

Upload & embed your videos directly from your Wordpress admin.

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Embed videos in your website with our responsive HTML5 player. Upload new videos & manage existing ones from your wordpress admin.

hdw player

HDW player (video player & video gallery) is an impressive FLV player for WordPress websites. This plugin is different and unique from other plugins available in WordPress. You can effortlessly install this plugin to your WordPress website. You would love the plugin for the look and the versatile options that comes with the player. Start downloading the plugin either from WordPress or from our website and savor the never-ending video experience.
<a href="https://www.hdwplayer.com" rel="nofollow ugc">HDW Player</a>
<a href="https://www.hdwplayer.com/wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Video Gallery</a>
Features include:
<ul>
<li>HDW player (video player & video gallery) can handle variety of Media formats that flash can handle such as flv, mp4, 3g2, 3gp, aac, f4b, f4p, f4v, m4a, m4v, mov(h.264), sdp, vp6. </li>
<li>The Player includes native support for playing back Youtube videos. It can be done by just providing Youtube page URL to the Player.</li>
<li>The Player includes native support for playing back Dailymotion videos. It can be done by just providing Dailymotion page URL to the Player.</li>
<li>RTMP stands for “Real Time Messaging Protocol”. It is a proprietary protocol developed by Adobe Systems for streaming audio, video and data over the Internet, between a Flash player and a server. All the major RTMP servers such as Red5, Wowza and Adobe Flash Media Server are supported by HDW ebplayer.</li>
<li>Pseudo Streaming is a protocol that can be installed on regular HTTP servers such as Apache, Tomcat, IIS or lighthttpd. It uses a server-side script for Flash-to-Server communication that is supported by HDW ebplayer.</li>
<li>A Content Delivery Network (CDN) offers several advantages over a plain webserver for streaming video. For example, a CDN will be able to speedily deliver your videos across the country and globe, it will be able to stream your videos instead of a download and it will be able to scale to large numbers of videos and viewers. The Amazon CloudFront CDN is particularly interesting, since everybody can instantly and easily sign up for it. On top of that, Amazon only charges for usage (in terms of GB of video stored and streamed), so there’s no fixed costs. HDW player (video player & video gallery) supports playback for the streams from Amazon Storage.</li>
<li>The HDW player (video player & video gallery) supports Live HTTP DVR streaming as offered by the Bitgravity CDN.</li>
<li>If you are using a commercial version with the KEY provided by HDW player (video player & video gallery) Sales Team, you will have option to remove HDW Player FREE text and you will be having your own Domain Name in the Context Menu that comes from the Right Click on the Player.</li>
<li>With our HDW player (video player & video gallery), you have freedom of enabling / disabling all the features that you can read in detail from our Documentation part.</li>
<li>Using HDW player (video player & video gallery) you can embed your videos on other websites easily by using the code generated on clicking Share – Embed Button.</li>
<li>HDW player (video player & video gallery) has built-in option to share the video to the famous Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc…</li>
<li>HDW player (video player & video gallery) allow you to share the video (that impressed you) to your friend by using the Email option inside the Player.</li>
<li>Button Tooltip is available for each button on the Player.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 2.8.6 or higher</li>
<li>PHP 5.0 or higher</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
Adding Webplayer to your WordPress require three necessary steps :
<ol>
<li>Creating a Playlist Name.</li>
<li>Adding Videos to the Playlist.</li>
<li>Adding the Playlist to the Player.</li>
<li>Creating Gallery.</li>
<li>Adding the Gallery to the Player.</li>
<li>Adding Player to WordPres Page/Post</li>
</ol>
STEP 1 : Creating a Playlist Name
<ol>
<li>Go to Site Admin > Settings > HDW Player > Playlist.</li>
<li>Click on the Add New Playlist button.</li>
<li>Provide a Name to the Playlist and Save it.</li>
</ol>
STEP 2 : Adding Videos to the Playlist :
<ol>
<li>Go to Site Admin > Settings > HDW Player > Videos.</li>
<li>Click on the Add New Video button.</li>
<li>Select the Playlist in which you like the video to be categorized.</li>
<li>Congrats! Now you have created the video and added to the playlist.</li>
</ol>
step 3. Adding the Playlist to the Player.
<ol>
<li>Go to Site Admin > Settings > HDW Player.</li>
<li>Click on the Add New Player button.</li>
<li>Configure the Basic player Options and select the needed playlist in Videos section.</li>
<li>Submit the form and check for the shortcode from Grid View.</li>
<li>Just copy the shortcode to your Post and Experience the Playback.</li>
</ol>
Step 4: Creating a Gallery
<ol>
<li>Go to Site Admin > Settings > HDW Player > Gallery.</li>
<li>Click on the Add New Gallery button.</li>
<li>Fill Gallery Settings and save.</li>
</ol>
Step 5: Adding Gallery to Player
<ol>
<li>Go to Site Admin > Settings > HDW Player.</li>
<li>Click on the Add New Player or Edit button.</li>
<li>Select the Playlist Option under Video Settings.</li>
<li>Change the Display Gallery Option From none to Display</li>
<li>Choose Your Gallery Name and Save it.</li>
</ol>
Step 6: Add Player to WordPress Page/Post 
1. Copy code from HDW Player listing page. 
2. Paste code to WordPress page/post.
Change the Order of videos: 
1. Enter the order no in the text box on video list page. 
2. Choose Change order from Bulk Action and click apply button.
Note : Creating a Playlist is not compulsary. You can also directly add the Video ID instead of Adding as Playlist by just choosing the Single Video Option.

HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery)

This plugin is provided by HDW Player (video player & video gallery). It enables you to embed HDW Player on your WordPress websites.

api.video vs HDW Player Plugin (Video Player & Video Gallery)