Launch a fully featured video on demand (VOD) platform with the Video Share VOD plugin. This turnkey solution for WordPress allows users to upload, manage, and publish videos effortlessly. From live streaming integration to advanced video management with FFmpeg support, this plugin offers everything needed to create a modern VOD service like Netflix or Hulu. Enhance your site with capabilities for playlists, ads, and video monetization, ensuring a rich viewing experience on any device.

Benefits

Comprehensive Video Management: Upload, import, and manage videos with powerful tools and user-friendly interfaces.
HTML5 and HLS Support: Ensures compatibility across all devices and browsers, including mobile platforms.
Ad Integration: Monetize your videos through HTML5 VAST support for ads, including Google DoubleClick and AdSense.
Custom Playlists and Taxonomies: Organize videos into playlists and categories, enhancing discoverability and user engagement.
Interactive Video Features: Allow viewers to rate and review videos, integrating with the Rate Star Review plugin for community feedback.
Monetization Options: Set up creator subscription models, pay-per-view, and ad-supported structures to generate revenue from your video content.
Advanced Video Processing: Utilize FFmpeg for video conversions, thumbnail generation, and video previews, ensuring high performance outputs.
Seamless Integration: Works with BuddyPress for social media capabilities, and other plugins like MicroPayments/FansPaysite for advanced monetization.
Customizable Access Control: Define who can view or upload content based on user roles or subscription levels, with detailed access lists.

Special Requirements: This plugin requires FFmpeg access on the web host. Main features including generating video snapshots, preview clips, video watermarks, custom HTML5 video conversions, HLS segmentation are not possible without FFmpeg.

Key Features

adds video post type to WordPress site
shortcodes, pages with video site features: browse videos, upload, import
extracts thumbnail, generates feature image
generates thumbnail sized short video preview (play on mouse hover)
extracts info: duration, resolution, bitrate, file size
multiple playback methods
playlist taxonomy, listing of videos with rest of posts in categories, tags, searches
shortcodes for listing videos, displaying player, upload form, import form
HTML5 VAST (video ad serving template) support for video ads
HTML5 Google IMA support: DoubleClick & AdSense support
premium users that don’t see ads
mass video upload
mass video import (from server)
setup user types that can share videos
pending video / approval for user types that can’t publish directly
conversion queue for server load control
configure codecs and encoding options, formats, bitrate
BuddyPress activity for adding video
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Listings

AJAX display and update of video list (does not reload site for filter, sort, next page)
video preview in list (play on hover)
Filter by category, tags, name search
Sort by date, views, recently viewed, random, rating, rating number, rate popularity
integrates Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings

VOD Access Control : Membership, Sales

define global video access list (roles, user emails & ids)
role playlists: assign videos as accessible by certain roles
exception playlists: free, registered, unpublished
show preview and custom message when inaccessible
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integrates MicroPayments – Content, Membership, Downloads plugin to allow selling items

Players

HTML5 video conversion and playback support
HLS playback support
HD video support (player adapts to video size)
HTML5 native tag player
Video.js player with VAST support
MediaElement.js (WordPress default video player)
Strobe Flash player

PLupload / HTML5 Video Uploader

Drag & Drop
AJAX (no Submit, page reload required to upload more videos)
multi video support
status / progress bar for each upload
fallback to standard upload for older browsers
mobile video upload (iOS6+, Android 3+)
backend multi upload menu
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Plugin Integrations

Paid Videochat turnkey pay per minute cam site builder: publish streaming recordings, videos on room profile, teaser loop video
Broadcast Live Video turnkey live streaming site builder: publish channel streaming archives
MicroPayments Content and Membership: sell videos as WooCommerce products or with MyCred Sell Content
Rate Star Review – AJAX Reviews for Content, with Star Ratings: allow users to rate videos and leave reviews

Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming Plugin

integrates with Broadcast Live Video – HTML5 Live Streaming channels plugin
import archived video streams (previous broadcasts)
upload additional videos for each channel
list videos on channel page
channel button on video page (if channel exists)
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Webcam Recording Plugin

integrates with VideoWhisper Video Posts Webcam Recorder for video recording
integrates with VideoWhisper Video Comments Webcam Recorder for video recording comments (including in BuddyPress activity)
recorder access shortcode “videowhisper_recorder” integrates VideoShareVOD sharing permissions
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External Service Dependencies

Google Interactive Media Ads libraries are required to load from Google domains when feature is enabled, to prevent “Error: IMA SDK is either not loaded from a google domain or is not a supported version.” .
Service terms: https://developers.google.com/interactive-media-ads/docs/sdks/html5/client-side/terms

Special Hosting Requirements

FFmpeg and HTML5 codecs are required to generate snapshots, preview clips and convert videos to HTML5 formats. Latest FFmpeg is recommended with video & audio codecs for HTML5 & video types you plan to upload.
Conversions require important resources like CPU time, memory, long process time (not available on budget shared hosting). These must be available and enabled for the account processes.
High upload size and script timeout limits on web host to allow uploading bigger files. Importing videos (uploaded with FTP or other tools) is recommended for very big files.
CloudFlare or similar services are not recommend due to upload limitations. Will usually break bigger uploads.
Optionally, to deliver videos as live streaming a server like Wowza SE is required that will provide access at a HLS address from video path.
Optionally, plugin can also generate static HLS segments, using extra disk space and initial processing resources.
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Security Warning: Hosts that include FFmpeg access should also have specific security configuration in place. That can include CageFS and other restriction/isolation tools.

Documentation

Shortcodes

videowhisper_videos playlist=”” perpage=”” perrow=”” – Video list.
videowhisper_upload playlist=”” category=”” owner=”” – Upload form.
videowhisper_player video=”0″ – Video player.
videowhisper_preview video=”0″ – Preview only.
videowhisper_player_html source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – HTML file player.
videowhisper_embed_code source=”” source_type=”” poster=”” width=”” height=”” – Embed code HTML player.

For more details see Video Share VOD – Documentation menu after installing plugin.

Demo

Live Video Site Demo

Video Share VOD – Turnkey Video Site Builder Script