How to use VideoJS – HTML5 Video Player for WordPress
(I’m archiving this for my own purposes)
Instructions on using VideoJS – HTML5 Video Player for WordPress, taken from the plugin page. More at Videojs.com
Replace the “{” with a square bracket in the following items
Video Shortcode Options
mp4
The location of the h.264/MP4 source for the video.
{video mp4=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4″]
ogg
The location of the Theora/Ogg source for the video.
{video ogg=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogg”]
webm
The location of the VP8/WebM source for the video.
{video webm=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm”]
poster
The location of the poster frame for the video.
{video poster=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png”]
width
The width of the video.
{video width=”640″]
height
The height of the video.
{video height=”264″]
preload
Start loading the video as soon as possible, before the user clicks play. Use ‘auto’, ‘metadata’, or ‘none’. Auto will preload when the browser or device allows it. Metadata will load only the meta data of the video.
{video preload=”auto”]
autoplay
Start playing the video as soon as it’s ready. Use ‘true’ or ‘false’.
{video autoplay=”true”]
loop
Causes the video to start over as soon as it ends. Use ‘true’ or ‘false’.
{video loop=”true”]
controls
Use ‘false’ to hide the player controls.
{video controls=”false”]
id
Add a custom ID to your video player.
{video id=”movie-id”]
class
Add a custom class to your player. Use full for floating the video player using ‘alignleft’ or ‘alignright’.
{video class=”alignright”]
Tracks
Text Tracks are a function of HTML5 video for providing time triggered text to the viewer. To use tracks use the {track] shortcode inside of the {video] shortcode. You can set values for the kind, src, srclang, label, and default attributes. More information is available in the Video.js Documentation.
{video]{track kind=”captions” src=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-captions.vtt” srclang=”en” label=”English” default=”true”]{/video]
All Attributes Example
{video mp4=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4″ ogg=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogg” webm=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm” poster=”http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png” preload=”auto” autoplay=”true” width=”640″ height=”264″ id=”movie-id” class=”alignleft” controls=”false”]{track kind=”captions” src=”http://example.com/path/to/captions.vtt” srclang=”en” label=”English” default=”true”]{/video]
Video.js Settings Screen
The values set here will be the default values for all videos, unless you specify differently in the shortcode. Uncheck “Use CDN hosted version?” if you want to use a self-hosted copy of Video.js instead of the CDN hosted version. Using the CDN hosted version is preferable in most situations.