HelixWare – Video Hosting for WordPress

HelixWare – Upload and play beautiful HD video right from your site.

HelixWare is a WordPress plugin which integrates with the HelixWare video cloud platform.

With this plugin, you can upload videos, organise them using the WordPress Media library and add a shortcode to display them on your site.

Installing and activating HelixWare turns WordPress into a powerful integrated streaming platform with the following features:

• Upload any video file via the familiar WordPress Media screen
• Videos take zero space and zero CPU on your WordPress hosting
• We automatically encode your videos to multiple bitrates and formats
• Stream to any device: PCs, Macs, Linux, iPhones, Androids

HelixWare – Registration

To use this plugin you need to register on helixware.tv
get the application key and secret and add it to the configuration panel.

To install:

1. Upload helixware.zip to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Expand the file
3. Activate the file
4. Register on helixware.tv to get an application key and secret
5. Activate the plugin and set the application key and secret in the configuration

If you have any question, send us an e-mail to [email protected]

1.4.0 (2015-11-20)

• Enhancement #28: now that HelixWare is integrated with the WordPress Media Library we don’t need to expose the “create post” row after an upload.
• Enhancement #39: add the HelixWare embed shortcode in the video assets metadata.

1.3.7 (2015-11-20)

• Fix #36: helixware-admin.css not found.
• Fix #37: cannot add custom fields using ACF Pro.

1.3.6 (2015-11-16)

• Fix #32: add media with assets other than HelixWare videos doesn’t work.
• Fix #33: incompatibility with ACF plugin.

1.3.5 (2015-11-16)

• Fix: disable SSL communications to avoid issues with some hosts.

1.3.4 (2015-11-16)

• Fix: rename hls redirector.

1.3.3 (2015-11-16)

• Fix: support legacy JWPlayer 6 instances also when JWPlayer 7 is configured.

1.3.2 (2015-11-15)

• update server certificates.

1.3.1 (2015-11-15)

• fix server certificate.
• fix scripts for player shortcode.

1.3.0 (2015-11-02)

• add the video preview of an on-demand asset in the Media Library #29
• add support for VideoJS – APL video player #14
• Media Library data is synchronized (two-ways) with HelixWare Server #13
• when an asset is deleted from the Media Library it is deleted in HelixWare Server as well #12

1.2.1 (2015-10-12)

• move the MICO extensions to a separate plugin #25

1.2.0 (2015-10-11)

• add support for JWPlayer 7; do not include non-GPL files with the plugin and use CDN for JWPlayer #15
• add support for MICO extensions, temporal video segmentation #20

1.1.0 (2015-10-04)

• WordPress Media Library integration #10
• Media Library synchronization happens only when WP requests the list of attachments #18

1.0.0

• First release.