Thabo David Klass

The role of video as the premier mode of communication and information transmission in the year 2019 has now become uncontested. Video informs all aspects of our lives, from how we communicate with our loved ones to how radio stations stream content to their ‘listeners’. The monumental task for content providers today is to provide video in a manner in which it is accessible to everyone – not providing video is totally out of the question.
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gek1h29pyNU?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
A large part of this is of course driven by the all internet-based media distribution platforms that have sprouted up since 2005. Video has become so instrumental and so effective that it has even triggered the biggest learning cycle in human history. So, the important test for content providers is fundamentally related to access – global access. Pertaining to internet infrastructure, different places in the world are at different stages of development – all those people have to have access to the same content. Providing video at resolutions that deal with these scenarios can be what separates a content providers from their competition.
The MP4 video format and FFmpeg have matured tremendously over the past 15 years. MP4 has become the de facto video format on the web and FFmpeg is the goto transcoding tool for some of the biggest video distribution platforms in the world. Just because of the lay of the land in 2019, it is important to use video on your site to interact with your visitors in ways that they can relate to and understand. Communicating in a standard way using the MP4 video format and making sure those videos can be provided in sizes and rates that respond to individual users’ needs and circumstances is imperative.
WordPress is now running on 30% of all websites – in a way, it has become a kind of web operating system. This means that it has become unavoidable and thinking about creating new products and dedicated implementations of existing products for WordPress is imperative.
The combination of better video transcoding technology, standard (popular) video containers, cloud storage services and a web dominated by a very powerful WordPress was fertile soil to create Spreebie Transcoder.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Resizing – Spreebie Transcoder resizes video to lesser resolutions. For example, a 360p video will get 240p and 144p copies.</li>
<li>Compression – Spreebie Transcoder has adjustable settings to determine the quality of video and the speed at which transcoding happens. This results in compression to varying degrees depending on what settings have been chosen.</li>
<li>Google Cloud Storage – If you choose to, transcoded video can be stored on Google Cloud Storage as a backup.</li>
<li>Folders – Spreebie Transcoder supports WP Real Media Library that brings folder functionality to WordPress media.</li>
<li>Support and Manual – Spreebie Transcoder provides a support tab through which users can request support from Spreebie representatives. A comprehensive manual is also provided to help users with most of the questions they may have.</li>
</ol>
This plugin requires FFmpeg to work.
THIRD PARTY PRODUCT AND SERVICE NOTE: When storing already transcoded video on the cloud with this plugin, a third party service called Google Cloud Storage (https://cloud.google.com/storage/) is used for storage. A number of open-source PHP libraries from various sources are packaged within Spreebie Transcoder in the folder “vendor” in order to facilitate Google Cloud Storage functionality. Google Cloud Storage in this plugin ONLY works for cloud storage – the rest of the plugin can function without it.
Another third party product which is not included with this plugin but is its centre is FFmpeg is (https://www.ffmpeg.org/) – this is used to perform all the video analysis and transcoding. Without FFmpeg, this plugin cannot function.
The last third party product that can be used in tandem with this plugin but is not included with it is WP Real Media Library (https://matthias-web.com/wordpress/real-media-library/). This can be used to organise your transcoded media into folders. Spreebie Transcoder does not need WP Real Media Library to function.

Spreebie Transcoder – Resize, Compress and Store Video

SPREEBIE TRANSCODER is a WordPress plugin that resizes, compresses and stores MP4 video via FFmpeg and Google Cloud Storage.

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DUE TO LACK OF RESOURCES THERE IS NO SUPPORT OR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT PLANNED FOR THE TIME BEING.
FFMPEG LIBRARY GETS UPDATED AND FLAGS USED BY THIS PLUGIN MAY GET DEPRICATED / CHANGED. 
USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK.
WP Video Posts will enable you to create custom Video posts, upload and insert 
videos into these posts. All uploaded video files will be converted into MP4 
format to enhance the performance so that it loads and plays fast. It creates 
snapshot of a specified frame at a specific time to create the splash image 
for the video. This plugin enables WordPress the ability to allow the 
following formats to be uploaded as well as convert them to the finalized MP4 
format for playing; FLV, F4V, MP4, AVI, MOV, 3GP and WMV formats. 
Important Note: If FFMPEG is NOT installed then the supported formats for playing videos are FLV and MP4 formats and the splash image will not be created and the default image will be shown. You can always encode your video and create a splash image manually.
In addition, WP Video Posts allows the embed of Youtube and Vimeo videos with 
the use of the following shortcodes:
Youtube: 
[wpvp_embed type=youtube video_code=vAFQIciWsF4 width=560 height=315]
Vimeo: 
[wpvp_embed type=vimeo video_code=23117398 width=500 height=281]
You can also use our general shortcode to display a video player anywhere on your site (video need to be of mp4 format): 
[wpvp_player src=http://example.com/path/to/video/file.mp4 splash=http://example.com/path/to/image/file.jpg width=500 height=281]
You can pass the following attributes to a shortcode (examples): 
– width (640) 
– height (480) 
– autoplay (1|0) 
– volume (50) 
– src (http://example.com/video.mp4) 
– splash (http://example.com/video.jpg)
You can also overwrite our template files for the front end uploader / editor if you need to add your styling. 
If you’re going to do so, please copy the files from wp-video-posts/templates/ into your own theme:
<ul>
<li>wpvp-frontend-uploader.php</li>
<li>wpvp-frontend-editor.php</li>
</ul>
Remember to keep the fields and field names as is in order for the form processing to work properly.
<h4>Instructions</h4>
<ol>
<li>
After install, go to the Dashboard.
</li>
<li>
Hover over the Videos menu item and click on Add New Video in the submenu for Videos.
</li>
<li>
Add a title to the Video Post.
</li>
<li>
Click the Upload/Insert icon above the post content editor.
</li>
<li>
In the media uploader pop up, add the video you want to attach to this video post.
</li>
<li>
After the video uploads, it will automatically be encoded if ffmpeg exists on the server. If ffmpeg is not found, allowed video format for uploading is mp4. After this process, the video attachment details open where you can modify the title, caption and description.
</li>
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Once the details have been modified/added if you chose to add those details, click on the Insert into Post button. It will then add a shortcode that will appear as the following: [wpvp_flowplayer src=http://yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MyCar.mp4 width=640 height=360 splash=http://yoursite.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MyCar.jpg]
</li>
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You can use this shortcode with any other posts and pages on your site as well.
</li>
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Add any other details in the post content and click the Publish button.
</li>
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That is all.
</li>
</ol>
<h3>Arbitrary section</h3>
<h3>A brief Markdown Example</h3>

WP Video Posts

Upload videos to create custom video posts. With FFMPEG installed, it encodes and creates splash image.

Spreebie Transcoder – Resize, Compress and Store Video vs WP Video Posts