Introduction

Video Players & Gallery, Audio Players & Gallery, Multimedia, Multimedia Display, Multimedia Players

Videobox is a Joomla! 3.6+ extension for adding video (and audio) to your site. It supports videos from YouTube and Vimeo, as well as music from SoundCloud, Twitch streams, and HTML5 supported video and audio formats. It offers several ways to insert a video, including direct player, pop-up player, and a video gallery. Just put the video link in the Videobox tag and you'll be up & running!
Getting started
Display methods
Player effects
Video providers (adapters)


Box display is a great way to insert videos without sacrificing a lot of space for the player. That way it makes your articles straight to the point without unnecessary distractions while keeping the videos right where they belong to. Rather than the huge full-size video player taking up space and distracting the reader, the box display only shows a small video thumbnail with an optional title. When user clicks the thumbnail, the video opens in a lightbox player, or in an inline player. The box element itself behaves just like the photos in your article - you can set it to float to the left or to the right, centre it with margin: 0 auto; or apply any other CSS styling to it.

Box display is great, however it's not ideal when the video is just an irrelevant reference or a note, or when the video itself isn't directly related to the topic. In this case even a small box thumbnail would be irrelevant and distracting for the reader. An ordinary link to the video seems good enough, but when users click it they leave your website. Videobox link display solves that problem - you can still keep the reference, but instead of redirecting users to an external page the link will open a lightbox player directly on your website.

In a way, the gallery display is the exact opposite of the box and the link display. It's designed to display a lot of videos in an organised manner, featuring a responsive grid and a built-in pagination. That way you can insert all of your videos at once and let users browse through them quickly. Alternatively a gallery can be displayed as a slider, showing only a few thumbnails at a time.

What are you waiting for? Give it a try!

Features:

  • Specify playback end time for YouTube and HTML5 videos
  • SoundCloud integration (since 4.0.0)
  • Modular video source adapters (since 4.0.0)
  • Start playing video when page is opened (since 3.0.0)
  • Works with any Joomla! component, not just with articles (since 3.0.0)
  • Play button on thumbnails (since 2.0.1)
  • Full video URL as video ID (since 1.1.1)
  • HTML5 video and audio support (since 2.0.0)
  • Non-lightbox player for box display and gallery (since 1.1.0)
  • Native Joomla! pagination for galleries
  • Custom class and style (since 2.0.0)
  • Player offset for each video (since 1.1.1)
  • Almost all settings can be overridden and set for each plugin call separately

*****Brilliant *****



Posted on 24 January 2013
very simple to install and works very well.



Thank you.
This is a very nice little plugin. It works well, is easy to use, and is well supported.
I selected this plugin over some others not because it looked like it has a lot of extra features, but because the reviews indicated that the developer gave good support. This was a good choice.



I found an error in the J3.0 version, and sent a message about it. A fix was available in just a few hours.



My only suggestion is that the version should have been bumped to reflect the change, just so I can be sure I have the right one installed. I'll be using this as my default video plugin.



Excellent work, and thanks!
As a beginner Joomla user, I had an previous error code on my site that was not caused by the extension, but was blocking my use of Videobox. The developer got back to my inquiry quickly (within the same day) and helped me work through the issue. I was very impressed with the helpful attitude! After working through a couple sets of instructions, Videobox works just as promised. Great job on the extension and thanks for the fanatic support. Clearly explained, even for a beginner!
This is a beautifully designed application. Simple to install and configure. I had a small technical issue related to my configuration, and the developer responded within an hour - so support is great too. Not enough stars available.
After the first try of this plugin (v2.0.2), I found something need to be improved, so I contacted the author via email, then he replied soon and added these new features (youku support, auto-play option, etc) . Now this plugin is nearly perfect!
I've installed this plugin and had some troubles to get it on as I want, maybe

due a misunderstanding of the tag.



So I put an email to developer whom goes beyond to reply my question, he gave me further assistance to fine tuning my video-gallery.



So it means a nice works and even more nice support.



I recommend both, videbox and its developer.

Just works!



Posted on 21 December 2012
I'm gradually building a J3.0 test site to get some experience in the new version and wanted a video player, but specifically one that played from a URL not just videos on the site. This too a short time to install and download and once I'd copied the syntax carefully, worked perfectly.



I hope the author updates this to be responsive - it'll be my player of choice for some time.



Thanks!
This is one of those extensions that was really missing before it was released.

It has various display options, easy styling, uncomplicated syntax and it's also fast rendering in the page (it feels faster than AllVideos).



It is also actively supported. As a non-commercial user, I contacted the developer on some occasions to suggest future features and ask for support. He replied quickly and meaningfully paying attention to all requests.



It has now become my main video extension.

Highly recommended.

Videobox



Posted on 02 November 2012
It was so simple, I had a hard time, but the support was fast, accurate and beyond all expectations! I am a happy camper!

Videobox

Version:
6.0.0-rc6
Developer:
Hitko Development
Last updated:
Dec 20 2016
9 years ago
Date added:
Nov 19 2014
License:
GPLv2 or later
Type:
Free download
Includes:
p
Compatibility:
J3
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