For the most popular video services, you can just paste the link on a line by itself in the post editor: https://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/ For mp4 files hosted offsite on unsupported sites, you can try to use a service like this (http://embed.ly/) but I don’t think it will work well. More likely, you’ll have to sign up … Read more
stop all video players when starting an other to play?
The things you have installed on your webserver have nothing to do with whether or not the client can play the video served by your server, that depends on what you implement on the client side. Besides that the FLV container format is becoming deprecated with the increased support of HTML5 and I wouldn’t recommend … Read more
You can directly add flv video to any post/page by using Add Media button. If you want to add a video manually (I mean directly using link of video), then you can use shortcode. This video shortcode supports ‘flv’ format. WordPress Codex documentation of video shortcode explains more about it.
From a UX perspective whether to display a subtitle track is a preference that should really be left up to the user. Edit: that being said, mediaelement.js allows you to specify a starting sub track by passing in this option: { startLanguage: ‘en’ }
The Codex lists several core-supported oEmbed sites (including a few being added in 3.5): YouTube (only public videos and playlists – “unlisted” and “private” videos will not embed) Vimeo (note older versions of WP have issues with https embeds, just remove the s from the https to fix) DailyMotion blip.tv Flickr (both videos and images) … Read more
Set featured image for video thumbnail automaticlly
How To Replace WordPress Native Player With Fluid Player? [closed]
I don’t know WordPress has its own video player, but HTML5 video player supports closed captions. This is the example. <video width=”320″ height=”240″> <source type=”video/mp4″ src=”/my_video_file.mp4″ > <track src=”/captions_file.vtt” label=”English” kind=”captions” srclang=”en-us” default > <track src=”/French_captions_file.vtt” label=”French” kind=”subtitles” srclang=”fr” > </video> But, I recommend this Video.js
You can take a look on Video Embed & Thumbnail Generator Plugin, that allows you to add several fields to any video uploaded to the WordPress Media Library. Just choose a few options and click Insert into Post and you’ll get a shortcode in the post editor that will embed a flexible, responsive HTML5/Flash video … Read more