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Videopack

By Kyle Gilman

Content Management / Video & Podcast Management

Videopack Review - In-Depth Analysis

Videopack generates video thumbnails and allows resolution switching for responsive self-hosted videos and galleries.

Performance Overview

WPS Score

6.8/10

User Rating

4.8/5 (based on 63+ reviews)

Active Installations

10,000+

Update Frequency

Excellent It is calculated using the weighted average of same category plugins.

Security Score

1 / 10 (Very Low Risk) It is calculated using the weighted average of all versions.

What It Does

Videopack is a powerful plugin that enhances your video capabilities in WordPress. It allows you to create video players, generate thumbnails, and offer multiple resolutions for your videos.

With Videopack, you can easily generate thumbnails from your uploaded videos in the WordPress Media Library. If your server has FFMPEG installed, you can automate video encoding as well.

The plugin also supports creating a video gallery using a simple shortcode, making it easy to showcase all videos attached to a post. Additionally, you can add advertisements to your videos through the Videopack Ads premium add-on.

Other Notable Features

Here are a few other notable features of this free Videopack plugin.

Video thumbnails

Video gallery

Video player

Screenshots

FAQ

Most of the time your video doesn’t play because it’s not encoded in the right format. Videos have containers like mp4, mov, ogv, mkv, etc and within those containers there are video and audio codecs like H.264, MPEG-4, VP8, etc. The best option for this plugin is an mp4 container with H.264 video and AAC audio. It’s confusing, but there is a codec usually identified simply as “MPEG-4” of “MPEG-4 Visual” which is not the same thing as H.264 even if it’s in an mp4 container. mp4s with MPEG-4 video will not play in most browsers, and if you don’t use AAC audio you won’t get any audio. I highly recommend using Handbrake to make a file with H.264 video and AAC audio in an MP4 container.

Use MediaInfo to get really detailed information about your media files.

The watermark option is a simple image overlay and is styled using CSS. The default styling is

.kgvid_watermark img {   display: block;   position: absolute;   bottom: 7%;   right: 5%;   z-index: 1;   margin: 0px;   max-width: 10%;   box-shadow: none; }

You can override any of those settings in either your theme’s custom CSS area or using the Jetpack “Custom CSS” module. If you want to make the watermark bigger, try something like

.kgvid_watermark img {   max-width: 20%; }

If you want to put it in the upper left instead of the lower right, try something like this:

.kgvid_watermark img {   top: 7%;   left: 5%; }

Contributors and developers

“Videopack” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Kyle Gilman

Pro version Free Version Docs

WPS

6.8

Average

Pro version

Ratings

4.8 out of 5 | 63

Version

4.10.5

Last updated

3 months ago

Active installations

10,000+

WordPress version

6.9.4 or higher

PHP version

7.2 or higher

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Videopack Review - In-Depth Analysis

Performance Overview

What It Does

Other Notable Features

Screenshots

FAQ

Contributors and developers

Ratings

Reviews (63)

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Contributors & Developers

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Changelog

Security Status

Secure

No Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Known Vulnerabilities (5)

WPS

6.8

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