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.

wildchild

Configure Visual-Sound through your administration interface\settings. 
Choose a provider: soundcloud, visualdreams or visualsound for combined mode. 
When supporting the plug-in you’ll get a sample widget preview!
More information can be found at http://visualsound.be
General Visual-Sound plug-in syntax:
[provider mode username location]
SoundCloud Syntax:
[soundcloud command username location]
examples:
[soundcloud track user location] opens the user/trackname
[soundcloud playtrack user location] autoplay user/trackname
[soundcloud set user location] opens the user/setname
[soundcloud playset user location] autoplay user/setname
[soundcloud dropbox user] dropbox for user
[soundcloud inbox user] inline dropbox for user
VisualDreams Syntax:
[visualdreams command username location/object]
examples:
[visualdreams open user object] opens the user/object or location
[visualdreams license user object] opens licensing for user/object or location
[visualdreams fetch user object] fetches the user/object
[visualdreams identify user object] identifies user through object
VisualMIX Syntax:
[visualmix command username location|object]
VisualMIX examples:
Same commandline as SoundCloud & VisualDreams combined. In further versions there 
might be added services or providers.

Visual Sound

Gets SoundCloud, ArtistPlugme and Visualdreams imported in your blog in no-time by using a simple command line!

Velocity – Video Lazy Loading for YouTube, Twitch and Vimeo vs Visual Sound