Videobox 
Version
3.1.0 (last update on Jan 17, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
21
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
8 October 2012
Well, first of course is standard embedded player. That's what you're most likely to use when you have one or two videos per article. All you need to insert it is to add video ID or link to HTML5 supported media between {videobox} and {/videobox} tags. Then you can customize player size, offset and more.
You think that video player takes too much space in your articles? That's not a problem. You can use box display to show only clickable video thumbnail and title in your article and display player inside lightbox. You can even set it to display player inside your article when clicked, so visitors can play video while they read through article content.
And you say you have a lot of videos you want to add to article? No problem, with use of Videobox gallery display you can add them in seconds. If you think there are too many videos for one page in your gallery, Videobox supports pagination. Even if you have multiple galleries in same article, pagination works for each gallery separately.
What are you waiting for? Give it a try!
Features:
* Start playing video when page is opened (since 3.0.0)
* Works with any Joomla! component, not just with articles (since 3.0.0)
* Support for Youku videos (since 3.0.0)
* Play button on thumbnails (since 2.0.1)
* Full video URL instead of video ID (since 1.1.1)
* Custom {tag}{/tag} (since 1.1.2)
* HTML5 video and audio support (since 2.0.0)
* Box display (thumbnail --> player) for single videos instead of standard video player
* Non-lightbox player for box display and gallery (since 1.1.0)
* Built-in pagination for galleries, fully compatible with native Joomla pagination styling
* Custom player and thumbnail size
* Custom class and style (since 2.0.0)
* Player offset for each video (since 1.1.1)
* Title for thumbnails
* All settings except custom tag can be overridden and set for each plugin call separately
Note that Videobox uses native HTML5 player for local videos. HTML5 standard is not supported by some older browsers, including IE8. Also, there's no standardized format for HTML5 videos, therefore some browsers don't support all video formats. That's how HTML5 standard works right now, if that's not what you like, you can still use any other extension with flash player, though most of the latest mobile gadgets don't support flash any more.
Amazing plugin, I've been looking for a nice video gallery all around but this one is the only one I found that looks this good :) It also seems to be pretty fast for what it does, so cudos for that too.
Suggestions:
-Add more lightbox libraries to choose from like shadowbox etc (for different colored themes)
-Add option in the gallery mode to play the video directly when clicking on the thumbnail instead of opening it into a lightbox
Suggestions:
-Add more lightbox libraries to choose from like shadowbox etc (for different colored themes)
-Add option in the gallery mode to play the video directly when clicking on the thumbnail instead of opening it into a lightbox
Owner's reply
I'm glad that you like it and thank you for your suggestions.
As you've suggested I've added an option to play video directly in version 1.1.0.
I'm planing to add more popup player effects in version 2, together with function to insert HTML5 videos directly from file. I'm already working on it, but I can't tell when will it be available for download.
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