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
I've been using this extension since initial release and I really like it. It's so easy to use. I'm glad that there is HTML5 support in version 2, because I had to use separate plugin for that and now I can do it all using this plugin and use all Videobox features for my HTML5 videos too. It would be great if you make some kind of editor button for this plugin so users on could add videos without knowing anything about videobox syntax.

Nice & Easy - I LIKE it!



Posted on 17 October 2012
This is what I needed! Easy to setup, everything works as described

[except of the gallery linefeed with '', but maybe this is caused by JCK Editor...]



@bosit: the one of your two request is already fulfilled :-) With parameter 'lightbox=0' a video is played directly at its thumb box within the gallery (without opening a lightbox)

Fast and nice looking



Posted on 14 October 2012
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
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.

Videobox

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