Darren Cooney

Velocity is an alternative loading method to the standard to YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and Soundcloud iframe embeds.
With Velocity you will decrease the loading time and increase overall performance of your website by lazy loading media on-demand instead of on initial page load.
To add Velocity to your site, simply create a Velocity shortcode by selecting a preview image and media type using the intuitive shortcode builder then add the generated snippet to your page.
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<h4>Shortcode Parameters</h4>
<ul>
<li>type – Choose a media type [youtube, vimeo, twitch, soundcloud].</li>
<li>id – The ID of the media item.</li>
<li>options – Add optional styling and display parameters for the embedded media – e.g. rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0.</li>
<li>playlist – Is this a Soundcloud playlist [true/false].</li>
<li>img – The path to the preview image.</li>
<li>alt – The alternative text to be attached to the preview image.</li>
<li>color – Play button arrow color.</li>
<li>bkg_color – Play button background color.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Shortcode</h4>
<pre><code>[velocity type="youtube" id="239793212" img="http://yourwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/image-1263626715.jpg" alt="Play Video"]
</code></pre>
<h4>Tested Browsers</h4>
<ul>
<li>Firefox (Mac, PC)</li>
<li>Chrome (Mac, PC, iOS, Android)</li>
<li>Safari (Mac, iOS)</li>
<li>IE10+</li>
<li>Android (Native)</li>
<li>BB10 (Native)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Website</h4>
https://connekthq.com/plugins/velocity/

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo

I wish it could manually grab the image thumbnail for me and load locally. The manual builder is enough work as it is.

Thank you for this great plugin, though.

works great, missing some key features

Improve website performance by lazy loading and customizing your YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch and SoundCloud media embeds.

gerhard

a WordPress plugin that would not only allow the user to easily embed media from YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud into their posts, but also allow us as developers to use it as a function in the our WordPress template files to embed videos in custom content types and other filters. The plugin also comes with a widget to allow you to easily embed media in your sidebar.
The plugin currently supports YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud. We hope to be able to add more online media services soon.
<h3>Usage</h3>
How do users use it?
To embed a piece of media in a post or page you simply need to add the following shortcode to you post or page content:
[media link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
You can also set a custom width and height to your media by adding the width and height parameters to the shortcode:
[media width=”800″ height=”600″ link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
As of version 1.3 you can now remove the container around the embed code by setting the container to false(default is true):
[media container=”false” link=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4″]
How do developers use it?
Don’t worry, we did not forget about the developers.
To embed a piece of media somewhere in the code you simply need to add the following function to the template:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4'); ?></code>
You can also set a custom width and height to the media by adding arguments for width and height respectively:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', 800, 600); ?></code>
As of version 1.3 it is now possible to remove the container around the embed code you can set the container to false(default is true):
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', 800, 600, false); ?></code>
OR if you don’t want to set the width and height and just remove the container:
<code><?php media_embed('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EojN6r2VSR4', '', '', false); ?></code>

Ninja Embed Plugin

Easily embed media from YouTube, Vimeo, Yahoo Video and Soundcloud into your posts, pages and templates.

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo vs Ninja Embed Plugin