innoweb/silverstripe-hostedvideos

adds video handling to objects. supports locally hosted videos as well as YouTube and Vimeo.

Self-hosted video integration (also supporting YouTube and Vimeo videos)

This is an archived project and is no longer maintained. Please do not file issues or pull-requests against this repo. If you wish to continue to develop this code yourself, we recommend you fork it or contact us., _(*1)

This module allows adding locally hosted, YouTube or Vimeo videos to any object., _(*2)

It uses * [ChunkedUploadField] (https://github.com/micschk/silverstripe-chunkeduploadfield) to allow uploads larger than the configured PHP limits * [afterglow video player] (https://afterglowplayer.com/) for locally stored videos (which allows SD and HD versions of videos) * native YouTube and Vimeo embedding for those videos (afterglow could be used here too, but then the videos wouldn't work without javascript), _(*3)

When adding Vimeo and YouTube videos, you can add the video code or the whole URL. If URLs are given, the URLs are parsed the video codes extracted., _(*4)

Usage

Add the HostedVideoExtension to any page/dataobject you want to contain a video. This will add the fields for the object to contain one single video., _(*5)

Insert $HostedVideo in your template, wherever you want your video to show., _(*6)

Configuration

video sources

By default all three video sources are enabled. You can disable any of them using the following config options:, _(*7)

HostedVideoExtension:
  disable_selfhosted: true
  disable_vimeo: true
  disable_youtube: true

video resolutions

By default there are two video resultions configured for self hosted videos:, _(*8)

HostedVideoExtension:
  resolutions:
    SD: 480
    HD: 720

You can change these settings and add more resultions if you would like to give the user more options., _(*9)

display size

You can specify the display size of the videos in your yml config:, _(*10)

HostedVideoExtension:
  display_size:
    width: 560
    height: 315

The default CSS treats all videos as having a 16:9 ratio (56.25% height)., _(*11)

formats and media types

You can specify the media types allowed for your self hosted videos in the yml config:, _(*12)

HostedVideoExtension:
  formats:
    mp4:
      type: 'video/mp4'
      label: 'MP4 (H.264 with AAC or MP3 audio)'
    webm:
      type: 'video/webm'
      label: 'WebM (VP8/VP9 with Vorbis or Opus audio)'
    ogg:
      type: 'video/ogg'
      label: 'Ogg (Theora with Vorbis audio)'

Please make sure the configured media types are also defined on your server (.htaccess for Apache):, _(*13)

AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
AddType video/ogg .ogg