Dynamic Video Player Block plugin

Yes, the Dynamic Video Player shows YouTube video’s

• Set source to Direct Video URL
• Provide the Youtube video address (URL)
• Poster source: select Direct URL
• Click on ‘Fetch video poster’
• After a second a button shows up: Use as poster URL: click on it.
• Save the settings and done.

I am sure there are other good players, but the Dynamic Video Player block understands how Bunny works and has a huge advantage when it comes to playing Bunny videos.

Bunny offers HLS playlists as .m3u8 streams. When Bunny hosts the video, Dynamic Video Player offers you the option to convert the video to an MP4 video in the background; a format supported by all browsers and viewable by all video players. This conversion is fully automatic and does not modify the source file.

Yes, Dynamic Video Player plugin is excellent for playing Vimeo video’s also.

• Set source to Direct Video URL
• Provide the Vimeo video address (URL)
• Poster source: select Direct URL
• Click on ‘Fetch video poster’
• After a second a button shows up: Use as poster URL: click on it.
• Save the settings and done.

When entering the necessary details to play a video on your website, you are always asked for a video poster. The video poster is the image the visitor sees before clicking on it and starting the video. This can be a URL or a file from your WordPress media.

As long as you use one of the well-known hosting providers such as YouTube, Bunny, Vimeo, Livid and Gumlet, you no longer need to create or design a video poster yourself; Dynamic Video Player retrieves it from the provider, stores it, and adds it as a video poster. Entirely automatically.

The Dynamic Video Player block plugin is especially created for WordPress Gutenberg. Some builders are capable of showing or integrating Gutenberg blocks. Try the Dynamic Video Player in demo mode first, so you know it works before you buy.

When you are the website owner, designer and editor – all in one – and it’s a normal company or organization website, you might not be using custom fields at all.

As soon as you want a page to have a specific consistent design—when working with page templates or custom post types—it is no longer possible to manually enter the necessary data for a video on a page. In that case, ‘custom fields’ are used by default. The editor fills in the required data, and the design retrieves that data and displays it to the visitor. Now you have a problem: the majority of video player plugins do not work well, or at all, with custom fields. Here too, Dynamic Video Player is your ideal tool. Dynamic Video Player block is built for custom fields!

When showing a video to the vistor without a popup, there are two major disadvantages.

1. The video is played in the same format as the video poster. This means that the video will play very small, unless you had a very large (too large) video poster on your page.
2. Without a popup, the video poster must have exactly the same ratio (height/width ratio) as the video. With a popup, that is not necessary; you have total design freedom.

Yes, the Dynamic Video Player plugin is able to play video’s hosted on Gumlet.

Gumlet provides video URL’s as .M3U8 and .MP4 URL. Dynamic Video Block plugin has built-in compatibility to play both the M3U8 and .MP4 streams of Gumlet.

Does that include the automatic fetching of the videoposter of Gumlet? Yes, it does.

Peg-Dash format is not supported.

Yes, the Dynamic Video Player plugin is able to play video’s hosted on Livid.

Livid provides video URL’s as embed and as watch link. The Dynamic Video Player can show the video through the watch URL.

Does that include the automatic fetching of the videoposter of Lioid? Yes, it does.

The Dynamic Video Player plugin is specialized in playing videos and streams, not in showing playlists or complete channels. There are other (more expensive and heavier codewise) video players that can do that.

DRM is handled by the providers (hosting) videoplayer. That is because they have the secret key to unlock the DRM. In short: no Dynamic Video Player plugin is not the right player to show videos with DRM.

Yes you can. The plugin has a free test mode

• The test version works backend — settings, icon color, everything is active.
• The front end has fixed content.
• Download the demo Dynamic Video Player

Is this the best video player available?

• Difficult to say. There are some amazing videoplayers in the WordPress universe. With youtube channels, video libraries and so on.
• Dynamic Video Player doesn’t have those advanced properties.

But we offer other unique features!

• Support for Bunny and Gumlet.
• Automatic fetching of the video-poster.
• Migrates Bunny m3u8 video to MP4.
• Being able to use any ratio video poster as the trigger.
• Use all kinds of custom fields as the source of the video.
• Ideal for directory websites, real-estate, rentals, therapists, dentists, etc.
• Show MP4 video in any ratio without black bars.
• Very easy setup – no stress UI.

Yes you can. Just set a class in the Popup trigger tab and set the same class in a block of your choice, like a button, text, image, and even a menu-item.

You might might want to set the video-poster to ‘none’, but you can use the poster and the class trigger at the same time.

Our Dynamic Video Player block allows you to place it in the footer (or any site-wide element). Set the video-poster to None, set a class in the Popup trigger tab and you either place the trigger in a template or in the menu.

Note: This also works with a custom field. That way you can set a different video source (url) for every post.

With the Dynamic Video Player block, you can display a logo (or another image) as a poster overlay.

It requires an image with a transparent background, such as a PNG or WEBP file. The width of the logo is adjustable.

Some examples on this page feature a logo on the poster to show what is possible.