Can it be used to play several videos all in the same window (multiple videos playing in the same location and you just rotate between the videos– like switching channels on a tv)?
If so what would the script for that look like?
If this was already answered sorry for asking a stupid question.
-Thanks in advance for any reply
That’s a very good idea. I’ll implement the feature of playing multiple videos from links into a window in the next release or the one following.
Vili said,
on April 27th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Thanks of a nice plug-in!
I’m wondering, I don’t like pop-ups, but when the video is embedded, the scrolling goes really slowly. I have a video blog with lots of videos in it, in one page.
How could I get the picture back after it has played…?
In the next version, I’ll have a close button available above the video. When the button is clicked, the video will revert back to the image (or other link type and HTML) originally there. I hope to have this release out in a week or two.
I love this plugin and will get a lot of use out of it. Is there a way to get a flash video to not endlessly repeat, but rather to stop after one play? This is from a person who is way on the low end of the code learning curve… thanks for your help and for a great product.
Yes, I will be implementing a Flash Player with the 0.15 release of vPIP. This release will probably come out in two weeks — the 2nd week of May. It will by default only play once and have the ability to scroll through the video, among other features.
I can load these generated lines of html into a static HTML page and it works just fine… However, when the code is generated during the building of the DNN page, I get a Javascript error on line 751 of the jquery.js:
throw “Error: You are overwriting jQuery, please include jQuery last.”
Can you think of any reason why I would be getting this error?
wow, finally got around to trying this out on my personal website! wow, enric, such a great job.. now to see if i can get it going on 29fragiledays.
d
erik said,
on June 2nd, 2006 at 8:35 am
Hello Enric,
Very nice I’m already using it and really wonderful it feels clean and powerful. But I noticed when I have a bigger video it doesn’t work to play it embedded it just shows it in a new window. I looked at the code but can’t see that I did something wrong. I even installed it new but it stays that way. I’m I doing something wrong or is this a known issue?
thanks Erik
erik said,
on June 3rd, 2006 at 12:25 am
Update:
I made a mistake.
The link to the css was not correct. Instead of http://www I only had www. Fixed it and it works.
Looking at code a week later gives that fresh look.
Sorry for the false alarm.
hi hi,
trying the new version and having a few problems. Quicktime plays fine in Firefox on Mac 10.4, but FLV does a no-show, and in Safari (2.0.3) nothing comes up for either? this is the post in question, any ideas?
Hey guys. Thanks so much for vPIP. I love the look of the thickbox player and how the embedded player has the “X” to show the linking picture again. I had been embedding my wmv’s with another type of js code, and it just left a blank player when the movie was done, but this is easier and better looking. BTW, I linked you with one of your chicklets.
Thanks again.
Dan (Dan and Jen’s Animal Friends)
i am trying to get it to work, i added it in the section, but when i click on vpip when writing a post it doesnt popup, and gives a javascript error, unknown function
Hey Ernic,
I like the plug-in. Do you have any plans of including stats for the video downloads? I also think you should make the thickbox dragable so the user can continue to read while watching the video.
What do you consider commerical use?
Ben
Blackice said,
on June 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Love how it doesnt work at all in Firefox. Just stare at a blank box forever…
Blackice said,
on June 11th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Nevermind my last post. It took forever for the movies to download before playing
yeeees! thanks enric. it’s brilliant, and it’s very easy to use the plugin.
i have a question about the embedded FLV with the cirneViewer:
the look of the flv-files on http://michaelverdi.com/ is different, than the look on my blog …
if i use the same html-code like michael, it works also on my blog ….
for example: play flash
also the videosize in the normal cirneViewer is smaller ….
what did he change?
or did i something wrong?
sorry if my english isn’t that good - i’m german.
and i just know little about html ….
which he renamed to “cirneViewer.swf” to get it to work. He didn’t need to do that and I pointed him to the commands it uses to play flv files which is on the page above.
This is great! This is one of the best things I’ve seen with video. Fantastic work!
Kevin said,
on July 11th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Hi,
Looks like a great plugin … and its kinda working for me … though its also kinda not.
I can get the movies to play - but it won’t display the image specified to swap with the movie … and it also has trouble displaying the movie in thickbox in IE on occassion or at certain resolutions.
I was really hoping to make complete use because this most certainly has the best feel and from the comments seems to work the best out of all the other video plugins I’ve tried.
I have tried working with it on wordpress 1.5 and wordpress 2.0 … same issues on both.
Also I was wandering does the image have to be exactly the same size as the movie … or smaller or bigger … shouldn’t matter … but just thought I would ask …
Could you direct me to the website to look at for this problem. Also which version(s) of IE are you seeing these problems in. And which video format are you using (quicktime, windows media or flash?)
The size of the linked image shouldn’t matter for the video embedding.
Thanks,
Enric
Kevin said,
on July 12th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Enric
Thanks for the quick reply …
I setup a test post on http://www.kevindonde.com/?p=6 with 3 different videos, 2 wmvs and 1 mov - 1 with thickbox, 1 without thickbox and 1 without any image swap at all …
The only one that plays is the .mov - the other 2 don’t even play. And none of them present their images and swap with the video …
I also tried adding the reference right into the header of the header file … I use wordpress 2 on this server
How does the thickbox position get determined? Is it something about the sidebar-on-the-bottom approach I’ve got that makes this happen? How would one solve it?
Dear Enric,
Thank you very much for your plugin, great job. It is so nice which I was dreaming for my site. By the way, can we insert youtube link with this plugin?
Thanks again.
Etchbee
The recent version of vPIP, version 0.15e, should work on wordpress.com. I need to convince Matt to implement it. Klaas plans to implement that version on http://wpblogger.com/ which uses, from what I know, the same version of Wordpress as wordpress.com. That is the multiuser vesion, WordpressMU. Once Klaas has vPIP implemented there, I want to show it to Matt and recommend it be put on wordpress.com.
— Enric
MickeMus said,
on July 24th, 2006 at 8:45 am
I’m trying to get it to run under the mu-plugins folder. I found two entries in vPIP.php I can change but it won’t run… (mu-plugins folder automatically activates the plugin for all blogs). Any clue where else a change may be needed?
Cheers.. I’m trying to get rid of wp-ExtremeVideo (in it’s current state) as it requires a little “programming” by the users (it won’t generate the code for the user)!!
Vpip 0.15e is implemented on wpblogger.com This is a playground multi user WordPress and therefore could be broken or unavailable depending on on what i’m testing.
Feel free to take a look at http://vpip.wpblogger.com and see how it looks in WordPress/WordPressMU.
MickeMus: I’ve modified the most recent version of vPIP, version 0.15e, to work with WordpressMU. It should work for your site. It uses bracketed code for WordpressMU. Once installed login to your site, go to the Options menu, choose “vPIP Config” option and check off “Using vPIP bracketed code?” Have you tried it out?
All: I’ll be documenting the new WordpressMU (Wordpress Multiuser) features under the “Wordpress Installation” section soon.
,
Enric
Jakob Hede Madsen said,
on July 25th, 2006 at 4:04 am
So do I understand this correctly - vPip excludes the use of the rich editor in WP?
It’s never explicitly stated that this conflict exists, but it would seem so from the installation instructions.
I am using the rich editor, and I like it that way, is there a way to use both that and your plugin?
It looks like you can use the Rich Editor by putting the code in the windows that pops up from the [HTML] button. Putting the code directly into the Post text box makes the code just text displayed on the web page.
Yes you can use the rich text editor and paste generated text using the HTML tab. However if you use the center option this will show up (as in will be visible) in the post text after you hit save;
[hVlog style=”text-align: center”] so it is almost perfect.
2. Can vPIP auto-sense the operating system? Thus, if it’s a Mac user, it would play the QuickTime version. If a Windows user, it would play the Windows Media version. This would enable us to avoid Flash, which doesn’t look as good.
Those are both features that could be implemented. vPIP is open source. I or someone else could make a custom version of vPIP with those features for your implementation. And I will add such features in a future release.
LOVE this! I’ve only used it twice, but I think it is simply the coolest. But it doesn’t seem to work with my Safari 2.0.4. I could have sworn it did…but I might have been testing with Firefox because that’s what I use to post to Blogger.
Any ideas?
B.
Bekah Again said,
on August 4th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
hmmm…now it’s fine. Must have been a video-fetching issue.
Thanks for the enthusiasm (you have plenty of it!)
Safari 2 prior to build 420 has an issue with closing an embedded video and the Thickbox feature, so those are is disabled for the older builds and version. The new version of Safari may be releasing soon with a new version of OS X.
I tried defining a set height/width in Wordpress and when it generated the code–all of the Windows Media files had an undefined height even though I set it in the options.
Steve said,
on August 9th, 2006 at 6:24 am
i just dont like how it does NOT stream, its downloads the wheole movie before playing, im most cases people will not wait for the movie to download, but if it played after 20% were downloaded that would be good.
I’m not sure which media you’re referring to that’s playing in vPIP. vPIP is designed to use the streaming of all the players it supports: Quicktime, Windows Media and Flash. Can you give me a webpage as a sample of the problem?
This is a problem with how that Flash SWF is setup. It’s setup to completely load the movie before playing. Look at the Flash articles on playing streaming or progressive FLV files. Here are some samples:
ya know what, i think that was just a bad example to give you, because the file was .avi before and was larger size and took even longer to load, i encoded it into swf just so it would load quicker.
I LOVE this product so much, thank you for developing it!
Like OJO way upthread I would really like to Jeroen Wijering’s flash player rather than the included Cirne Viewer because it fits the asthtetic of my site better. I tried renaming Jeroen Wijering’s viewer and replacing Cirne Viewer but the video wouldn’t load.. it just kept saying “loading”. In your response below to OJO you said something about there being instructions on how to use the other player on the “page above” but I can’t find those anywhere, can you help?
Thanks so much!
Here’s your post:
on June 26th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Michael installed Jeroen Wijering’s flv player available at:
which he renamed to “cirneViewer.swf” to get it to work. He didn’t need to do that and I pointed him to the commands it uses to play flv files which is on the page above.
The thing is that different Flash FLV players use different parameter names to play a FLV movie. So renaming another player as cirnViewer.swf will not work. My recommendation is to reinstall vPIP with the original cirneViewer.swf. Then also install Jeroen Wijering’s flash FLV player, flvplayer.swf.
Refer to the readme/readme.html directory that’s unpacked after downloading Jeroen Wijering player for how to use it. The second image in the “Playing Flash” page shows the parameter that Jeroen Wijering’s flash FLV player uses to specify the flv movie:
it’s no problem to embed a you-tube-video within vPIP.
but i’m looking for a way, how the autoplay works ….
the normal url might be:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk”
so it has to be something like:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&autoplay”
or:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&autostart”
or:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&quickstart”
——————-
Can I make my embedded videos autoplay?
Yes, you can autoplay movies! At the bottom of every video, we give you the source code to embed the video:
Thanks for the comment and link! I’ve been looking for a way to use embedded video lately, so I’ll give vPIP a whirl in the near future.
BTW, since you seem to know your Wordpress stuff, maybe you can help me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to change the text that appears at the top of the browser (mine currently says “http://travelinbear.com”, I would like it just to say “Travelin’ Bear”). Normally, I wouldn’t ask, but I’m a newbie to wordpress and their support section has been giving me the run-around. Any chance you could help me out? I’d really appreciate it!
hi, i have started using vPIP on a demo blog of mine. Since that my posts do not show up in itunes anymore (they did prior to using vPIP) and i get the dreaded exclamation mark warning.
WordPress is my favorite blog engine. Here’s a collection fo ressource for getting the most value from WordPress and extend in areas where it lacks some key functionality for the typical website.
>
> I was wondering does vPIP cause a huge server load? because my server load from 12% jump to 50%
> most of my movies are over 40 minutes long
vPIP just mainly creates the video embed code,
<object …>…<embed …></embed></object>
this shouldn’t have any difference in loading the video from a … call to a video.
So, no vPIP shouldn’t cause a difference in server load from accessing video to the standard link methods.
>
> I was trying to troubleshoot, to see why server load was so high, and i can’t tell whether this script or other script it causing it!
vPIP is a front script. It runs on the client machine and not the server. So the scirpt itself shouldn’t have an impact.
>
> but great work guys! if you know or experience something in similiar please get back to me.
Sure, I’ve been wrong before Thanks for the feedback.
I’m excited about vPIP, but can’t get it to work they way I was looking for.
I’m wanting the video clip to play in a player embedded in the actual blog post, rather than in a Windows Media Player window that pops up.
I can’t seem to figure out how to make that happen.
From the plugin’s main page, I get the impression that this is what’s intended. The user clicks on the image and a player opens up right there, no pop-up.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
h. said,
on November 24th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Is there a way to change the “close” icon that appears on top of the movies when they open.. also is this feature disabled in safari.. it doesnt appear….
Hello first ,congratulation for thickbox it’s wonderfull.
I have a question, can i change the video flashplayer (cirneViewer)by another in Vpip.js.I try but without succes, the player appear but don’t read the video.
This is what i have changed in the line 210 of vpip.js
// Set Flash location
var sFLVPlayer = vPIPpath + “flvplayer”;
Before i put the flvplayer in the vpip folder of my web site
Sorry i don’t have a very good english if you can help me(not for the english but the player…)
Good bye and Thanks you a lot
hello Enric,thickbox is exellent! I have a question about vPIP because i would like to change the close button with an effect onmouseout onmouseover.Can i change that in the vPIP js in this line
var sEntry = “”+sCaption+”close” + sEmbed + “”;
$(”#vPIP_TB_window”).html(sEntry);
I would like to do that whith gifs images.
Thanks you for all.I whish you’ll can help me.Ciao
Just wanted to tell you this is awesome. I’ve searched for a video solution all over the internet and yours is by far the best and most user-friendly… for those of us who don’t know a lot code. You’ve done an amazing job here. Thanks!
MickeMus said,
on July 24th, 2006 at 8:45 am
“I found two entries in vPIP.php I can change but it won’t run… (mu-plugins folder automatically activates the plugin for all blogs). Any clue where else a change may be needed?”
I found the same problem when I install vPIP today.
It would be better if enric can update the vPIP file and change “wp-content/plugins” to “wp-content/mu-plugins” .
For those who face the same problem, you can update database entry “vPIP_Location” in “wp_1_options”, or force a update_option by playing php trick.
Dorus said,
on January 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 am
Hi,
Love this plugin! It looks great and works smooth.
I am trying to get is to work together with an other plugin to have photo’s pop-up with the same look. It is the “Lightbox 2 Wordpress Plugin” found here: http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/
The problem is that when I turn on vPIP plugin it seems disable the lightbox plugin. So the vPIP seems to be ‘overruling’ the lightbox plugin.
Any suggetions for way around this problem? Like a line I can put in a post to dis/en-able a certain plugin?
Ah ok. Well, the ThickBox capability is probably what’s causing the conflict with Lightbox. If you don’t need ThickBox for vPIP, then the easiest (though not elegant way) to probably solve this is to rename the library thickbox uses, jquery.js, to another name like jquerynot.js. This file is in the ../wp-content/plugins/vPIP/ directory.
You can update the “vPIP Plugin location:” entry in the Options->vPIP Config menu to the location of vPIP on the server. I’ll document this on the “vPIP WordpressMU Installation” page.
I looked through the main changes in WP 2.1 and they should not effect the current version of vPIP (or prior versions.) Let me know if you see any problems. I’ll do testing on WP 2.1 after this release.
The new version has several significant changes including a rewrite of the javascript code from procedural to object oriented javascript. This should allow it to be more easily modified and extended by other programmers. I should have the new version available by Friday or earlier. The new features will be listed at the bottom of the main vPIP page.
Cinegage Utilities
on March 28th, 2006 at 9:39 am
Verry nice job!
on March 29th, 2006 at 5:46 am
This is the absolute best thing to happen to me this month.
Thank you sooooo much.
Send me a promo, dude!
- Jan
on April 6th, 2006 at 4:55 am
vPIP PIMPS Web Video.
Great Work!
on April 17th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
ack to the guys above… really the best stuff i ever got from the net
on April 17th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Seems like a great program!
Can it be used to play several videos all in the same window (multiple videos playing in the same location and you just rotate between the videos– like switching channels on a tv)?
If so what would the script for that look like?
If this was already answered sorry for asking a stupid question.
-Thanks in advance for any reply
on April 18th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
Toritaiyo:
That’s a very good idea. I’ll implement the feature of playing multiple videos from links into a window in the next release or the one following.
on April 27th, 2006 at 11:21 am
Thanks of a nice plug-in!
I’m wondering, I don’t like pop-ups, but when the video is embedded, the scrolling goes really slowly. I have a video blog with lots of videos in it, in one page.
How could I get the picture back after it has played…?
on April 27th, 2006 at 1:08 pm
In the next version, I’ll have a close button available above the video. When the button is clicked, the video will revert back to the image (or other link type and HTML) originally there. I hope to have this release out in a week or two.
Thanks for bringing up this issue.
on May 1st, 2006 at 3:40 am
I love this plugin and will get a lot of use out of it. Is there a way to get a flash video to not endlessly repeat, but rather to stop after one play? This is from a person who is way on the low end of the code learning curve… thanks for your help and for a great product.
on May 1st, 2006 at 9:28 am
Yes, I will be implementing a Flash Player with the 0.15 release of vPIP. This release will probably come out in two weeks — the 2nd week of May. It will by default only play once and have the ability to scroll through the video, among other features.
Thanks for using vPIP.
on May 2nd, 2006 at 10:55 am
Hello Enric.
Would love to see options for .flv submission and to incorporate this into RapidWeaver webtool.
on May 13th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
This WordPress plugin really rocks, it is THE solution for
embedded video.
Thanks.
on May 14th, 2006 at 1:53 am
Thanks!
on May 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
I am trying to integrate this great script into a DotNetNuke module. I am registering the scripts programmatically using the following code:
Private Sub RegisterVPIPScript()
‘The path to our web app:
Dim strWebAppPath As String = DotNetNuke.Common.ApplicationPath
‘Register the javascript for light box here.
Dim strClientBlock As New System.Text.StringBuilder
‘CSS Sheet
strClientBlock.Append(”@import “”")
strClientBlock.Append(strWebAppPath)
strClientBlock.Append(”/DesktopModules/wildPortfolio/css/vPIPBox.css”";”)
strClientBlock.Append(vbCrLf)
‘vPIP javascript block
strClientBlock.Append(”")
strClientBlock.Append(vbCrLf)
‘JQuery javascript block
strClientBlock.Append(”")
strClientBlock.Append(vbCrLf)
‘Inject this stuff
Page.RegisterClientScriptBlock(”vPIPCode”, strClientBlock.ToString)
End Sub
This works fine and produces the desired lines of code in the :
@import “/DNN322/DesktopModules/wildPortfolio/css/vPIPBox.css”;
I am also producing the vPIP programmatically, ending up with:
Click to Play Video
I can load these generated lines of html into a static HTML page and it works just fine… However, when the code is generated during the building of the DNN page, I get a Javascript error on line 751 of the jquery.js:
throw “Error: You are overwriting jQuery, please include jQuery last.”
Can you think of any reason why I would be getting this error?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
Eric
on May 31st, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Anyone who can implement this in PHPBB with BBcode like this plugin I use;
http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/2877 a on bbcode based embedded player.
thanks
Blips
–
http://vlogassist.com videoblogging resources
vPIP is implemented here: http://vlogmatic.com
on June 2nd, 2006 at 2:39 am
wow, finally got around to trying this out on my personal website! wow, enric, such a great job.. now to see if i can get it going on 29fragiledays.
d
on June 2nd, 2006 at 8:35 am
Hello Enric,
Very nice I’m already using it and really wonderful it feels clean and powerful. But I noticed when I have a bigger video it doesn’t work to play it embedded it just shows it in a new window. I looked at the code but can’t see that I did something wrong. I even installed it new but it stays that way. I’m I doing something wrong or is this a known issue?
thanks Erik
on June 3rd, 2006 at 12:25 am
Update:
I made a mistake.
The link to the css was not correct. Instead of http://www I only had www. Fixed it and it works.
Looking at code a week later gives that fresh look.
Sorry for the false alarm.
on June 3rd, 2006 at 1:10 am
hi hi,
trying the new version and having a few problems. Quicktime plays fine in Firefox on Mac 10.4, but FLV does a no-show, and in Safari (2.0.3) nothing comes up for either? this is the post in question, any ideas?
http://duncanspeakman.net/?p=68
be well
duncan
on June 4th, 2006 at 12:36 am
Thanks for reporting the problem, Duncan. I’m pretty sure I’ve found the error and fixed it in the 0.15b maintenance release.
— Enric
on June 4th, 2006 at 6:20 am
Hey guys. Thanks so much for vPIP. I love the look of the thickbox player and how the embedded player has the “X” to show the linking picture again. I had been embedding my wmv’s with another type of js code, and it just left a blank player when the movie was done, but this is easier and better looking. BTW, I linked you with one of your chicklets.
Thanks again.
Dan (Dan and Jen’s Animal Friends)
on June 4th, 2006 at 3:30 pm
hi,
that was incredibly easy.
the thickbox player is the solution i’ve been looking for.
thanks very much.
-daniel
on June 6th, 2006 at 6:05 am
i am trying to get it to work, i added it in the section, but when i click on vpip when writing a post it doesnt popup, and gives a javascript error, unknown function
on June 6th, 2006 at 10:43 pm
How much for commercial use?
Great product. Haven’t tried it yet, can’t wait!
Dave Ladner
on June 9th, 2006 at 7:02 am
vPIP - Videos Playing in Place…
If you’re looking for some cool ways to embed your videos in a webpage, Enric has created an interesting……
on June 10th, 2006 at 7:02 am
Hey Ernic,
I like the plug-in. Do you have any plans of including stats for the video downloads? I also think you should make the thickbox dragable so the user can continue to read while watching the video.
What do you consider commerical use?
Ben
on June 11th, 2006 at 1:12 am
Love how it doesnt work at all in Firefox. Just stare at a blank box forever…
on June 11th, 2006 at 1:16 am
Nevermind my last post. It took forever for the movies to download before playing
on June 20th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
it’s amazing, enric. thanks.
on June 26th, 2006 at 3:35 am
yeeees! thanks enric. it’s brilliant, and it’s very easy to use the plugin.
i have a question about the embedded FLV with the cirneViewer:
the look of the flv-files on http://michaelverdi.com/ is different, than the look on my blog …
if i use the same html-code like michael, it works also on my blog ….
for example:
play flash
also the videosize in the normal cirneViewer is smaller ….
what did he change?
or did i something wrong?
sorry if my english isn’t that good - i’m german.
and i just know little about html ….
would be nice to hear from
ojo
on June 26th, 2006 at 4:00 am
sorry i wanted to show you the code:
[a href=”http://michaelverdi.com/wp-content/plugins/vPIP/cirneViewer.swf?file=http://blip.tv/file/get/Ojo-rotschSilke708.flv” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” onclick=”vPIPPlay(this, ‘width=450, height=354′, ‘’, ‘’); return false;”]play flash[/a]
i hope that works now …
ojo
on June 26th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Thank you!
Michael installed Jeroen Wijering’s flv player available at:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player
which he renamed to “cirneViewer.swf” to get it to work. He didn’t need to do that and I pointed him to the commands it uses to play flv files which is on the page above.
Your English seems fine to me
on June 28th, 2006 at 10:05 am
Enric,
I just installed vPIP and tried it out with this inagural post
Works like a charm!
Thanks Enric for all of your hard work on this — it really adds a lot to the viewer experience.
-Kent.
on July 5th, 2006 at 10:47 am
WOW!
This is great! This is one of the best things I’ve seen with video. Fantastic work!
on July 11th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Hi,
Looks like a great plugin … and its kinda working for me … though its also kinda not.
I can get the movies to play - but it won’t display the image specified to swap with the movie … and it also has trouble displaying the movie in thickbox in IE on occassion or at certain resolutions.
I was really hoping to make complete use because this most certainly has the best feel and from the comments seems to work the best out of all the other video plugins I’ve tried.
I have tried working with it on wordpress 1.5 and wordpress 2.0 … same issues on both.
Also I was wandering does the image have to be exactly the same size as the movie … or smaller or bigger … shouldn’t matter … but just thought I would ask …
hope you have time for a reply …
Thanks
on July 12th, 2006 at 1:02 pm
Could you direct me to the website to look at for this problem. Also which version(s) of IE are you seeing these problems in. And which video format are you using (quicktime, windows media or flash?)
The size of the linked image shouldn’t matter for the video embedding.
Thanks,
Enric
on July 12th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Enric
Thanks for the quick reply …
I setup a test post on http://www.kevindonde.com/?p=6 with 3 different videos, 2 wmvs and 1 mov - 1 with thickbox, 1 without thickbox and 1 without any image swap at all …
The only one that plays is the .mov - the other 2 don’t even play. And none of them present their images and swap with the video …
I also tried adding the reference right into the header of the header file … I use wordpress 2 on this server
There is also a test post on the original blog where I was going to add vPIP to … which is here … http://america-daily.com/index.php?s=test+vpip .
The version of wordpress used here is 1.5
Kevin
on July 14th, 2006 at 8:02 am
Thanks a lot! This is really a great work!
But I’ve got a problem when the file url contained the character “~”.
I found out that the function “_vPIP_toAlphaNum(sString)” in vpip.js will eliminate “~”.
Therefore, it didn’t work properly.
If you could check the problem, I’ll really appreciate.
Thanks again for the great job you have done!
Paul Kuo
on July 18th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Thanks for all your work on this.
I’ve got a pretty non-standard Blog layout - and the thickbox “works” - but it appears way at the bottom of the page (Firefox).
Please see the test post - click the image: http://heavyside.net/jamie/?p=19
How does the thickbox position get determined? Is it something about the sidebar-on-the-bottom approach I’ve got that makes this happen? How would one solve it?
on July 19th, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Dear Enric,
Thank you very much for your plugin, great job. It is so nice which I was dreaming for my site. By the way, can we insert youtube link with this plugin?
Thanks again.
Etchbee
on July 19th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Thanks, Etchbee.
Yes, you can specify a YouTube video for vPIP. There’s a sample on my vPIP Test Page under the “Flash from YouTube” section.
From YouTube you grab the “Embed” text. Then look for
and use the URL specified in value for the Flash File URL.
Enric
on July 22nd, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Enric:
Will vPiP work with a WordPress blog at the WordPress site, as with:
http://johnleeke.wordpress.com/
John
on July 22nd, 2006 at 2:17 pm
The recent version of vPIP, version 0.15e, should work on wordpress.com. I need to convince Matt to implement it. Klaas plans to implement that version on http://wpblogger.com/ which uses, from what I know, the same version of Wordpress as wordpress.com. That is the multiuser vesion, WordpressMU. Once Klaas has vPIP implemented there, I want to show it to Matt and recommend it be put on wordpress.com.
— Enric
on July 24th, 2006 at 8:45 am
I’m trying to get it to run under the mu-plugins folder. I found two entries in vPIP.php I can change but it won’t run… (mu-plugins folder automatically activates the plugin for all blogs). Any clue where else a change may be needed?
Cheers.. I’m trying to get rid of wp-ExtremeVideo (in it’s current state) as it requires a little “programming” by the users (it won’t generate the code for the user)!!
on July 24th, 2006 at 10:10 am
Hmmm… my earlier post got nuked… We’re discussing this on the MU forums: http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=1579&replies=4 care to join in?
on July 24th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Vpip 0.15e is implemented on wpblogger.com This is a playground multi user WordPress and therefore could be broken or unavailable depending on on what i’m testing.
Feel free to take a look at http://vpip.wpblogger.com and see how it looks in WordPress/WordPressMU.
on July 24th, 2006 at 10:37 am
The posts are moderated. So if you haven’t posted before, there’s a delay in their appearance until I approve them.
Thanks for posting,
Enric
on July 24th, 2006 at 11:49 am
MickeMus: I’ve modified the most recent version of vPIP, version 0.15e, to work with WordpressMU. It should work for your site. It uses bracketed code for WordpressMU. Once installed login to your site, go to the Options menu, choose “vPIP Config” option and check off “Using vPIP bracketed code?” Have you tried it out?
All: I’ll be documenting the new WordpressMU (Wordpress Multiuser) features under the “Wordpress Installation” section soon.
Enric
on July 25th, 2006 at 4:04 am
So do I understand this correctly - vPip excludes the use of the rich editor in WP?
It’s never explicitly stated that this conflict exists, but it would seem so from the installation instructions.
I am using the rich editor, and I like it that way, is there a way to use both that and your plugin?
on July 25th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Jakob:
It looks like you can use the Rich Editor by putting the code in the windows that pops up from the [HTML] button. Putting the code directly into the Post text box makes the code just text displayed on the web page.
Enric
on July 27th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
Yes you can use the rich text editor and paste generated text using the HTML tab. However if you use the center option this will show up (as in will be visible) in the post text after you hit save;
[hVlog style=”text-align: center”] so it is almost perfect.
see http://vpip.wpblogger.com/
Klaas.
on July 27th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Klaas: Thanks for the bug report, fixed in release 16b which is now up on this site.
— Enric
on July 30th, 2006 at 5:53 pm
Two Questions:
1. Can vPIP count views?
2. Can vPIP auto-sense the operating system? Thus, if it’s a Mac user, it would play the QuickTime version. If a Windows user, it would play the Windows Media version. This would enable us to avoid Flash, which doesn’t look as good.
Thank you.
on July 30th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Neil J. Squillante,
Those are both features that could be implemented. vPIP is open source. I or someone else could make a custom version of vPIP with those features for your implementation. And I will add such features in a future release.
Thanks,
Enric
-==-
http://www.cirne.com
http://www.cinegage.com
on August 4th, 2006 at 11:56 pm
LOVE this! I’ve only used it twice, but I think it is simply the coolest. But it doesn’t seem to work with my Safari 2.0.4. I could have sworn it did…but I might have been testing with Firefox because that’s what I use to post to Blogger.
Any ideas?
B.
on August 4th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
hmmm…now it’s fine. Must have been a video-fetching issue.
on August 5th, 2006 at 4:25 am
Bekah:
Thanks for the enthusiasm (you have plenty of it!)
Safari 2 prior to build 420 has an issue with closing an embedded video and the Thickbox feature, so those are is disabled for the older builds and version. The new version of Safari may be releasing soon with a new version of OS X.
— Enric
P.S. Cute purple close button.
on August 8th, 2006 at 11:06 am
I tried defining a set height/width in Wordpress and when it generated the code–all of the Windows Media files had an undefined height even though I set it in the options.
on August 9th, 2006 at 6:24 am
i just dont like how it does NOT stream, its downloads the wheole movie before playing, im most cases people will not wait for the movie to download, but if it played after 20% were downloaded that would be good.
on August 9th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Steve:
I’m not sure which media you’re referring to that’s playing in vPIP. vPIP is designed to use the streaming of all the players it supports: Quicktime, Windows Media and Flash. Can you give me a webpage as a sample of the problem?
on August 9th, 2006 at 8:15 am
Carl:
I’ll be fixing the code generator Windows Media width and others problems we discussed in the next release soon.
on August 9th, 2006 at 9:55 am
http://steved-mma.com/?p=39
I had to encode that at the lowest possible quality to get it down to 8MB and it still takes ahile to load on a really fast server.
when u go to youtube or a site like that the videos play almost instant even if they are much larger then mine.
on August 9th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Steve:
This is a problem with how that Flash SWF is setup. It’s setup to completely load the movie before playing. Look at the Flash articles on playing streaming or progressive FLV files. Here are some samples:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide_03.html#progressive
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_guide.html
Here are samples of Flash video that play progressive through vPIP:
See “Jump to location in Flash video” in http://utilities.cinegage.com/vpip-test-page/
http://lofistl.com/
http://richardshow.com/
— Enric
on August 9th, 2006 at 10:56 am
ya know what, i think that was just a bad example to give you, because the file was .avi before and was larger size and took even longer to load, i encoded it into swf just so it would load quicker.
on August 9th, 2006 at 11:00 am
The vPIP samples of playing progressive flash all stream without having to load completely:
See “Jump to location in Flash video” in http://utilities.cinegage.com/vpip-test-page/
http://lofistl.com/
http://richardshow.com/
vPIP does not determine whether a media type streams or not. That’s determined by how the media player and content are setup.
on August 15th, 2006 at 5:23 am
I LOVE this product so much, thank you for developing it!
Like OJO way upthread I would really like to Jeroen Wijering’s flash player rather than the included Cirne Viewer because it fits the asthtetic of my site better. I tried renaming Jeroen Wijering’s viewer and replacing Cirne Viewer but the video wouldn’t load.. it just kept saying “loading”. In your response below to OJO you said something about there being instructions on how to use the other player on the “page above” but I can’t find those anywhere, can you help?
Thanks so much!
Here’s your post:
on June 26th, 2006 at 4:07 am
Michael installed Jeroen Wijering’s flv player available at:
http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player
which he renamed to “cirneViewer.swf” to get it to work. He didn’t need to do that and I pointed him to the commands it uses to play flv files which is on the page above.
on August 15th, 2006 at 8:24 am
Ariana:
Thank you for the compliment on vPIP!
I’ve started to document using flash with vPIP at:
http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/playing-flash/
The thing is that different Flash FLV players use different parameter names to play a FLV movie. So renaming another player as cirnViewer.swf will not work. My recommendation is to reinstall vPIP with the original cirneViewer.swf. Then also install Jeroen Wijering’s flash FLV player, flvplayer.swf.
Refer to the readme/readme.html directory that’s unpacked after downloading Jeroen Wijering player for how to use it. The second image in the “Playing Flash” page shows the parameter that Jeroen Wijering’s flash FLV player uses to specify the flv movie:
That is in the form: http://wwww.myserver.com/flvplayer.swf?file=http://wwww.myserver.com/movie.flv . Make sure to uncheck the “FLV:” checkbox.
— Enric
on August 17th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
hello there, hi enric,
i have a special question:
it’s no problem to embed a you-tube-video within vPIP.
but i’m looking for a way, how the autoplay works ….
the normal url might be:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk”
so it has to be something like:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&autoplay”
or:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&autostart”
or:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&quickstart”
does anybody know?
greetings
ojo
on August 18th, 2006 at 9:52 am
ojo:
According to the youtube help:
http://youtube.com/t/help_share#embed02
——————-
Can I make my embedded videos autoplay?
Yes, you can autoplay movies! At the bottom of every video, we give you the source code to embed the video:
<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>
To make it autoplay, just append “&autoplay=1″ to the code so it looks like this:
<object width=”425″ height=”350″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1″></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/OdT9z-JjtJk&autoplay=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” width=”425″ height=”350″></embed></object>
——————
So from your sample, it should be:
href=”http://www.youtube.com/v/u1kKLePqTdk&autoplay=1″
— Enric
on August 24th, 2006 at 8:25 am
it works!
thank you. vPIP is wonderful!!
ojo
on September 2nd, 2006 at 4:33 pm
Hey, Enric!
Thanks for the comment and link! I’ve been looking for a way to use embedded video lately, so I’ll give vPIP a whirl in the near future.
BTW, since you seem to know your Wordpress stuff, maybe you can help me. I’ve been trying to figure out how to change the text that appears at the top of the browser (mine currently says “http://travelinbear.com”, I would like it just to say “Travelin’ Bear”). Normally, I wouldn’t ask, but I’m a newbie to wordpress and their support section has been giving me the run-around. Any chance you could help me out? I’d really appreciate it!
Thanks!
Trevor
on September 13th, 2006 at 11:23 pm
hi, i have started using vPIP on a demo blog of mine. Since that my posts do not show up in itunes anymore (they did prior to using vPIP) and i get the dreaded exclamation mark warning.
Any ideas ?
(otherwise great tool though!)
cheers
bert
on September 17th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
hi enrik,
it’s me again. i have a question about the background color:
is it possible to make it ‘transparent’?
something like wmode=”transparent”?
thanks again for this great plugin!
you should earn money with that
ojo
on September 21st, 2006 at 11:35 am
WordPress Multimedia Plugins…
WordPress is my favorite blog engine. Here’s a collection fo ressource for getting the most value from WordPress and extend in areas where it lacks some key functionality for the typical website.
Plugins
* Audio Player WordPress Plugin
* WPG2 I…
on September 24th, 2006 at 4:35 am
Thx for the great plugin!
on September 25th, 2006 at 8:40 am
hi enrik,
i hope you received my last question?! (about the background color:
is it possible to make it ‘transparent’? …. something like wmode=”transparent”?)
i also have one more: ‘is it possible to autoplay a list of movies?’
in a normal embedded quicktime-player it works with the ‘qtnext - code’ ….
your answer would be really helpfull.
thanks a lot
ojo
greetings
ojo
on October 12th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
This a great update!
I was wondering does vPIP cause a huge server load? because my server load from 12% jump to 50%
most of my movies are over 40 minutes long
I was trying to troubleshoot, to see why server load was so high, and i can’t tell whether this script or other script it causing it!
but great work guys! if you know or experience something in similiar please get back to me.
appreciated your work!
Ryan H
on October 12th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Ryan H wrote:
> This a great update!
Thank you!
>
> I was wondering does vPIP cause a huge server load? because my server load from 12% jump to 50%
> most of my movies are over 40 minutes long
vPIP just mainly creates the video embed code,
<object …>…<embed …></embed></object>
this shouldn’t have any difference in loading the video from a … call to a video.
So, no vPIP shouldn’t cause a difference in server load from accessing video to the standard link methods.
>
> I was trying to troubleshoot, to see why server load was so high, and i can’t tell whether this script or other script it causing it!
vPIP is a front script. It runs on the client machine and not the server. So the scirpt itself shouldn’t have an impact.
Thanks for the feedback.
>
> but great work guys! if you know or experience something in similiar please get back to me.
Sure, I’ve been wrong before
>
> appreciated your work!
>
> Ryan H
>
— Enric
on October 21st, 2006 at 2:30 am
THANK YOU
I can’t wait til I have time to impliment this.
THANK YOU
on November 6th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Enric,
I’m excited about vPIP, but can’t get it to work they way I was looking for.
I’m wanting the video clip to play in a player embedded in the actual blog post, rather than in a Windows Media Player window that pops up.
I can’t seem to figure out how to make that happen.
From the plugin’s main page, I get the impression that this is what’s intended. The user clicks on the image and a player opens up right there, no pop-up.
Thanks for any help you can provide!
on November 24th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Is there a way to change the “close” icon that appears on top of the movies when they open.. also is this feature disabled in safari.. it doesnt appear….
on November 24th, 2006 at 10:42 am
h:
For the close buttons, replace “close_hover.gif” and “close_grey.gif” in the vpip directory with your own images.
The current Safari does not support dynamic closing of embedded video. This should be fixed when the version of Safari in Leopard ships.
— Enric
on November 25th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
A nice impliment would be the different sizes either on top or at the bottom where the user can choose their own window size
on November 30th, 2006 at 8:26 am
Hi there,
great tool. I use it on my Movable Tyep blog over here: http://www.hansonexperience.com/my_weblog/2006/11/presentatie_wim_veen_hoe_leert_de_jeugd_nu_eigenlijk.html
But I cannot get the TickBox working. What can be the problem?
regards
Hans
on December 4th, 2006 at 8:07 pm
ahhh! perfecto plugin!
Thankyou so much!
on December 4th, 2006 at 8:37 pm
Adam Teale:
Thanks! Glad it’s of use for you.
on December 10th, 2006 at 4:29 am
Hello first ,congratulation for thickbox it’s wonderfull.
I have a question, can i change the video flashplayer (cirneViewer)by another in Vpip.js.I try but without succes, the player appear but don’t read the video.
This is what i have changed in the line 210 of vpip.js
// Set Flash location
var sFLVPlayer = vPIPpath + “flvplayer”;
Before i put the flvplayer in the vpip folder of my web site
Sorry i don’t have a very good english if you can help me(not for the english but the player…)
Good bye and Thanks you a lot
on December 10th, 2006 at 11:54 am
Manuel:
You can use any Flash FLV player. Refer to the instructions on
http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/playing-flash/
under “Using A Flash FLV Player”. The internal vPIP Flash FLV Player, cirneViewer, should usually not be replaced.
Enric
on December 15th, 2006 at 4:25 am
hello Enric,thickbox is exellent! I have a question about vPIP because i would like to change the close button with an effect onmouseout onmouseover.Can i change that in the vPIP js in this line
var sEntry = “”+sCaption+”close” + sEmbed + “”;
$(”#vPIP_TB_window”).html(sEntry);
I would like to do that whith gifs images.
Thanks you for all.I whish you’ll can help me.Ciao
on December 15th, 2006 at 10:12 am
manuel:
Yes, for ThickBox the code would be changed at
var sEntry = “”+sCaption+”close” + sEmbed + “”;
$(”#vPIP_TB_window”).html(sEntry);
to give different Close capabilities.
For the regular close button, you would go to line 502 in the most recent version of vPIP, below the comment:
//Add [X Close] button to revert to original data.
There are the HTML javascript commands for the close button:
onMouseOver=
onMouseOut=
You can change the images for this Close by replacing close_grey.gif and close_hover.gif in the vPIP directory.
on January 16th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Enric,
Just wanted to tell you this is awesome. I’ve searched for a video solution all over the internet and yours is by far the best and most user-friendly… for those of us who don’t know a lot code. You’ve done an amazing job here. Thanks!
John Morris
MySpace Millions
on January 16th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
about wpmu
MickeMus said,
on July 24th, 2006 at 8:45 am
“I found two entries in vPIP.php I can change but it won’t run… (mu-plugins folder automatically activates the plugin for all blogs). Any clue where else a change may be needed?”
I found the same problem when I install vPIP today.
It would be better if enric can update the vPIP file and change “wp-content/plugins” to “wp-content/mu-plugins” .
For those who face the same problem, you can update database entry “vPIP_Location” in “wp_1_options”, or force a update_option by playing php trick.
on January 22nd, 2007 at 1:51 am
Hi,
Love this plugin! It looks great and works smooth.
I am trying to get is to work together with an other plugin to have photo’s pop-up with the same look. It is the “Lightbox 2 Wordpress Plugin” found here: http://www.4mj.it/lightbox-js-v20-wordpress/
The problem is that when I turn on vPIP plugin it seems disable the lightbox plugin. So the vPIP seems to be ‘overruling’ the lightbox plugin.
Any suggetions for way around this problem? Like a line I can put in a post to dis/en-able a certain plugin?
Thanx!
dorus
on January 24th, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Dorus:
Ah ok. Well, the ThickBox capability is probably what’s causing the conflict with Lightbox. If you don’t need ThickBox for vPIP, then the easiest (though not elegant way) to probably solve this is to rename the library thickbox uses, jquery.js, to another name like jquerynot.js. This file is in the ../wp-content/plugins/vPIP/ directory.
Let me know if this works.
— Enric
on January 24th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
lxb:
You can update the “vPIP Plugin location:” entry in the Options->vPIP Config menu to the location of vPIP on the server. I’ll document this on the “vPIP WordpressMU Installation” page.
— Enric
on January 24th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Enric, is the new version aimed at being compatible with WP 2.1, or is this a release for other features?
on January 24th, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Bren:
I looked through the main changes in WP 2.1 and they should not effect the current version of vPIP (or prior versions.) Let me know if you see any problems. I’ll do testing on WP 2.1 after this release.
The new version has several significant changes including a rewrite of the javascript code from procedural to object oriented javascript. This should allow it to be more easily modified and extended by other programmers. I should have the new version available by Friday or earlier. The new features will be listed at the bottom of the main vPIP page.
— Enric