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

Videobox



Posted on 01 May 2014
I really like this extension. It is free and has many features and many display versions. Good quiding in creators website how to get codes for displaying. Before choosing it, I went through all video players looking for free. One from them didn't worked at all and I didn't get any help from creators.

Videobox works without problems at once.

One note: if you have installed aditionaly Unito nivo slider, it doesnt work until you make off Load JQuery in Videobox plugin.
Owner's reply: Multiple extensions loading jQuery library may lead to a conflict between those libraries. To solve this problem, Videobox can be set not to load own jQuery library.
I am trialling videobox today and it looks excellent. I checked the FAQ which provided a detailed explanation and solution to the problem of thumbnails not showing. I had a query about bandwidth so I emailed the developer and had a reply within a few hours.



John

Very useful extension



Posted on 14 June 2013
I'm really impressed, that a non-commercial extension could be so useful!. It works out of the box and does its job perfectly! It takes only few minutes to create a gallery of boxed youtube movies to be displayed in lightbox popup, with customized dimensions etc.

Thank you!!!
Simple, lightweight and does the job as it should in just a few minutes... it's really plug and play!

Great



Posted on 17 April 2013
Video in a lightbox with automatic thumbnail generation. Good parameter menu, easy parameter syntax within plugin tags. Excellent plugin!!!

Very advanced plugin!



Posted on 09 February 2013
This is very advanced extension with many powerful option, that easy outperform AllVideos. Just give it a try. Standard player, inline and light box, plus gallery function!



Support is excellent too.



Some CSS overlay mouse over effect for play button at thumbnails would be nice.
I installed this plugin on a site for one of clients as they had asked for a video player the pop's out onto the screen. This plugin worked perfectly. I did run into an issue with it not playing on mobile devices. I contacted them and got a reply within a few hours. The issues was on the code I was using from YouTube was not correct and that was causing the issue. The developer we above and beyond by not only telling me what the problem was he explained it and also send me the updated and proper code. I would recommend this product to anyone.
Very simple install and usage yet very powerful in display options. I had one issue generating thumbnails that had nothing to do with the plugin but the video source. Developer responded in less than 10 hours with complete evaluation of problem and a solution!!!
This is a great plugin but mp4 video is not playing ie8 or firefox. Chrome latest version in not a problem. Developers need to test the plugin with all joomla frameworks and browsers.
Owner's reply: This is not the problem at all. It's all explained under HTML5 (local) videos section in Videobox FAQ here: http://hitko.si/support/faq/videobox#html5-videos-don-t-work-in-some-browsers-even-tough-they-re-in-supported-format THe thing is that IE8 is too old to play videos using HTML5 player (Videobox is meant to be pure HTML5 player, no flash player for legacy support). Also, Firefox doesn't support mp4 videos because it's not an open-source format, not because of Videobox. Videos need to be converted to webm or ogv format to work in Firefox, if you prefer to support older browsers and to have your videos in a single format, there are plenty of flash players in this category.

Beautiful plugin, but...



Posted on 24 January 2013
Simple and very convenient plugin, but it is system (not content!). Plugin scripts are on all (!) pages of site (not only on pages with video). This is unnecessary code for pages without video.
Owner's reply: Well, Videobox 3.x is a system plugin, while Videobox 1.x and 2.x are content plugins. You're free to use one that suits you.

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:
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Compatibility:
J3
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