Elite Video Player – WordPress plugin GPL

Elite Video Player Overview

Elite Video Player is a modern, responsive, fully customizable high-end video player for WordPress that support advertising and the most popular video platforms like YouTube (single, channel, playlist), Vimeo, self-hosting videos (only mp4 required), Google drive videos, Dropbox videos, local videos, Amazon S3 and LiveStreaming HLS m3u8 videos. Showcase your videos on your site across all browsers & devices with this unique and most powerful video player around.

Have your Elite Player up and running in minutes

Installation is super easy. Simply choose video player type and insert the shortcode in your page or post.

YouTube support – playlist/channel/single youtube

Elite video player can play any youtube video, import youtube playlists or even user channels. You can use default YouTube player or YouTube player with custom controls.

YouTube 360 VR & YouTube LiveStreaming support

The elite video player has now support for any Youtube 360 VR video, and even supports Livestream videos from Youtube.

Self-hosted videos

You can host your own videos with only the mp4 format required.

Vimeo support

Also, the elite video players can play any video from Vimeo too. Vimeo videos can be played with the default Vimeo player or custom Elite player.

HTTP Live Streaming (HLS .m3u8) support

Elite video player now supports HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) .m3u8 files.

Amazon S3 & Amazon cloud drive videos

Elite player can play any video from the amazon server.

Google drive videos

You can store and play videos from any Google drive.

Dropbox videos

Recommended when it comes to large files, use Dropbox to host your videos for free and play them in Elite player accross websites.

Local videos

You can also play any video from your local drive, no need for web hosting. Videos from dropbox are also supported.

Openload videos

Elite video player can play any video from Openload.

Mixed videos

Create your playlist with any video type you want – mix YouTube/Vimeo/Self-hosted/GoogleDrive videos all in one playlist.

Advertising

Elite video player supports pre-roll (before), mid-roll (during), post-roll (after), video ads, and pop-up ads. For each video in the playlist, you can set your own pre-roll/mid-roll/post-roll/pop-up ad. Also, advertising is improved with a custom skip ad option, which means that you can set different skip times for each video. Each ad can be added for all video types that elite player supports: youtube single videos/youtube playlists/user channels, Vimeo videos, and self-hosted mp4 videos.

Google Analytics

With Google Analytics you can track how many times videos have been watched and downloaded. Also, you can track how many times the Advertisement video has been watched, how long the Advertisement video has been played (before it’s skipped), or even count how many times your advertisement video was clicked.

Live video thumbnails for the progress bar

Elite video player is the first and only video player that is using the smart system for video thumbnails. You can set your video to auto-generate video thumbnails and display them Live in real-time when the user hovers the progress bar.

vtt (jpg) Video thumbnails for progress bar

The elite video player can also display vtt (jpg) video thumbnails, meaning, these thumbnails are pre-made as single sprite sheet jpg image.

Subtitles (captions)

Elite video player has subtitles (captions) support for HTML5 self hosted videos, Google drive, Dropbox, HLS m3u8 Livestream or Amazon S3 videos.

Sticky mode

Elite player has support for sticky mode to keep videos visible to your customers all the time on the page (when scrolling up/down through page). If video is not in user viewport, sticky player will appear in bottom corner, and if video is in user viewport, sticky player will automatically hide.

Lightbox mode, responsive mode, fullscreen mode

An elite video player can be showed in lightbox mode. You can set any image to open the player in a lightbox. Multiple lightbox images are supported (multiple lightbox players on the same page). Lightbox options are: lightbox image, lightbox image width and height, lightbox close on click outside (optional), lightbox autoplay (optional). This way you can have multiple video players on the same page.

Responsive mode creates an Elite video player that fits exactly into page or post content.

With Fullscreen mode, Elite video player will cover the entire page.