Playback a couple of seconds of the video (10 sec.) as a preview

  • Hi Kyle

    I am looking for a solution to upload videos to a wordpress site, but instead of streaming and showing the full video as preview, I want to only show i.e. 10 or 20 seconds of the video. The full video would be available for download then.

    I saw your ‘Video embed and thumbnail generator’ plugin and it works perfect for showing the full video and generating the thumbnail photo. Is it possible to use your plugin to only show a part of the video, where I could choose at which time it would start? I.e. video A starts at 30 seconds in the video and then plays 10 seconds as a preview, video B starts at 5 minutes in the video and then plays 20 seconds as a preview? Or i.e. the preview always starts at 50% of the video and plays 10 seconds.

    If yes, how do I handle this? Is there a way to automate it so it automatically does this for every uploaded video? I have tried to use the startparam=“00:10” but is doesn’t work.

    Thanks a lot for your help and for making this plugin available!

    Have a nice day.

    Kind regards
    David Jorissen

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    Encoding sections of the video isn’t a current feature of the plugin. I’ve had other people request similar features, which is basically automatic online editing, and it might be something I can come up with in the future, but it’s a complicated request. I move slowly on these things and wouldn’t count on it being available for another year, if at all.

    Did I write up some documentation somewhere that indicated that startparam would allow you to change the start time of a video? If so, I should remove it. startparam is an obscure JW Player parameter that you can use to enable pseudo-streaming in Flash players. You can use start="00:10" in a video shortcode to start your video playback 10 seconds after the beginning, but there’s no way to stop users from rewinding to the beginning or playing the video all the way to the end.

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