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Lazyload Make your site load faster by loading only a image instead of the entire video player on pageload.
Lazyload -> Lightbox Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image.
Link -> Lightbox Use simple links as triggers for lightboxed videos.
Prevent video hosts to lead your visitors away from your site! by disabling links in embedded video players. For example: A click on a title in a YouTube embed will not open a new tab. 🛈
Automatic or custom thumbnail images and titles. 🛈
Expand on click.

Show the latest video of a YouTube channel by using the channel URL (updated/cached hourly)
Responsive thumbnails.
Automatic or custom thumbnail images.
Automatic or custom titles displayed on top of your thumbnails.
Two hover styles and two play icon styles to choose from.
Support my over five years work on the free plugin.

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Video Player Lazyload

Make your site load faster by loading only a image instead of the entire video player on pageload.

Play icon: YouTube, Hover Style: Zoom

Play icon: Circle, Hover Style: Rectangle

The iframe embed method loads a entire website from the video host. A youtube embed page is a whopping 561.9 kb huge on top of additional http requests the browser needs to load the iframe(s). So your page is basically loading another website inside your website for every video you embed. This is very bad for performace reasons especially on slow connections. ARVE Pro loads a chunk of HTML with useful SEO data and a thumbnail image instead.

Only when the user actually clicks on a thumbnail the iframe embed is loaded to play the videos. This performance improvement, even when working great for single videos, this becomes especially noticeable when there are multiple videos embedded on a page.

Lightbox Example

Lazyload -> Lightbox

Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image.

Link -> Lightbox

Lets you easy setup links like this one to open a lightbox.

Preview Images in HD

Thumbnails in ARVE Pro does not nessasary mean small images. You can set your own images. Most providers, which support automatic thumbnails also support HD thumbnail images and the ARVE Pro Addon will use HTML5 srcset visitors devices always the the right image size.

The image you see below is automatically requested from Vimeo and loaded fast from their servers.

One Bright Dot

Expand on Click

This is a demonstation of a left aligned lazyloaded video that has a maximum width set and will expand on click before loading the video (If screen space allows it).

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What is Being worked on / Roadmap

Lots of improved code fully embracing oembed and a more WP native way of handing embeds.
Better way to cache things.
Support for automatic detection of aspect ratio when provider has oembed support.
More play icon styles and possibly even new hover styles. (suggestions welcome)

Note: The limiting factor of what is supported is generally not ARVE (Pro) but what providers offer.

	Provider	Requires embed code	SSL	Requires Flash	Auto Thumbnail (Pro Addon)	Auto Title (Pro Addon)
	All providers with responsive iframe embed codes
1	allmyvideos.net		✓
2	Alugha		✓		✓
3	Archive.org		✓
4	Break			✓
5	Brightcove	✓	✓
6	CollegeHumor				✓	✓
7	Comedy Central	✓
8	Dailymotion		✓		✓	✓
9	Facebook		✓		✓
10	Funny or Die		✓		✓	✓
11	IGN
12	Kickstarter		✓
13	LiveLeak		✓		✓
14	Livestream		✓
15	kla.tv		✓
16	Metacafe
17	Movieweb	✓
18	MPORA				✓
19	Myspace		✓
20	Snotr
21	Spike	✓
22	TED Talks		✓		✓	✓
23	Twitch		✓		✓
24	Ustream
25	RuTube.ru		✓	✓
26	Veoh
27	Vevo		✓	✓
28	Viddler		✓		✓	✓
29	vidspot.net			✓
30	Vine		✓
31	Vimeo		✓		✓	✓
32	VK	✓	✓
33	Vzaar		✓
34	Wistia		✓
35	XTube			✓
36	Yahoo			✓	✓	✓
37	Youku			✓
38	YouTube		✓		✓	✓
39	YouTube Playlist		✓		✓
40	HTML5 video files directly
41	Google_drive
42	Dropbox
43	Ooyala
	All providers with responsive iframe embed codes

Choose Your License

All purchase options are billed yearly. You may cancel your subscription at any time. Addons subject to yearly license for support and updates.