About
Univers Video is a Plugin for Wordpress 2.8 that provides video transcoding, resizing, and playback of video using HTML 5 Video for Firefox 3.5+ and Safari 3.1.2+, and Flash. To setup and install, this plugin requires some experience with development and administration on GNU/Linux. After installation, adding video to your blog is easy.
To add video to your blog
- Login to Wordpress
- Click Posts -> Add New
- Click Insert -> [Video Icon]
- Click Browse and choose a video file on your computer
- Click Show, and then click Insert into Post
- Click Preview, wait for the video to process, and then Publish
Cross Browser Video Playback
The Univers Player uses native video playback in Firefox 3.5 and Safari using the HTML 5 video tag. For cross compatibility with browsers that do not yet support video, Flash is used, but it’s hard to see the difference.
HTML 5 Video + Flash + FFmpeg + Wordpress
Video on the web can be as easy as images on the web with the introduction of the HTML 5 video element, <video src="sample.ogg"></video>, at least in: Firefox 3.5b4, Safari 3.1.2 +, and Opera Betas (sort of). However HTML 5 still isn’t supported in all browsers, and different browser support different codecs. To solve this problem we’ve reduced the complexities of video player’s the separate implementations, HTML 5 video and Flash, by giving the player a single interface that works the same in both. Furthermore we’ve made a Wordpress plugin that will use FFmpeg to automatically encode the uploaded video into the appropriate codecs, mp4 h264/aac and ogg vorbis/theora, and in multiple sizes.