vPIP for Video
Written by Shiv Prasad on 3:28 AMHi Everyone,
Today I am going to discuss a couple of great ways to embed video on your site. These players will allow you to play video that you have hosted on your own site, or on one of the common video hosting sites. The examples I will show you today are from some videos I have hosted on blip.tv.
The first player is from vPIP.org. vPIP stands for videos Playing In Place, and was developed by Enric Teller. vPIP differs from other methods by playing video directly within the page rather than opening up a new window. Thumbnail images are used as placeholders for the video, and there are two options for viewing the video. The first is the “Embed” option to play video directly in the page in place of the thumbnail, and the second is the “Thickbox” option to play mid-screen with the background darkened out. vPIP also gives you the flexibility to offer your viewers different versions of your video. In the example below I have both the QT and Flash versions that open in the ThickBox. Note that if you click directly on the thumbnail, you will get only the QT version. This can be set up in advance to play the format of your choice. I am not going to give a detailed description of how to set up vPIP because I can’t write anything more clear than the install and user guide wikis that already exist. Additionally there is a Google user group for vPIP for posting questions on. Enric is very responsive and has helped me out in the past.
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