Lazyload
Make your site load faster by loading only an image instead of the entire video player on page load.
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 light box.
Total Control
ARVE Pro can get thumbnails and titles from many video hosts automatically, but you can always overwrite them with your own if you like.
Auto Pause
ARVE Pro can pause videos as soon as another is played. (Requires Lazyload or Lightbox)
Auto Close / Reset
Auto close Lightbox when Video ends, reset videos to the initial Lazyload look when the video ends. (YouTube, Vimeo and video files only)
Stand Out in the Crowd
Three hover styles, four Play Icon styles included. The new Card style. Unlimited possibilities with your own unique CSS. Impossible with basic embeds.
Expand on Play
Makes the video take up screen free space, if available.
Automatic SEO Data
ARVE Pro fills in schema.org SEO data for you.
Support Open Source
Support my over 14 years of work on the plugin and add-ons. All licensed GPLv3.
Lazyload
Embed Videos like the professionals do it. This technique is utilized by many mayor websites.
A YouTube embed page is a whopping 1.2 Megabyte. So your page is basically loading another website inside your website for every video you embed. This is very bad for performance. ARVE Pro loads just a tiny bit of HTML with useful SEO data and a thumbnail image instead. The video is only loaded when the user clicks on the thumbnail, so your site will finish loading fast.
Because the initial thumbnail view becomes your content, you can style it with your own CSS, something that is impossible with traditional embeds.
Lightbox
Shows the Video in a Lightbox after clicking a preview image.
Full-screen setting can put your website into full-screen mode when the lightbox opens:
- Stay full-screen after lightbox closes (used here).
- Exit full-screen when lightbox is closed.
- Do not use full-screen.
Link ➜ Lightbox
Lets you easy setup links like this one to open a lightbox.
Thumbnails in ARVE Pro does not necessary mean small images. You can set your own images. Most providers, which support automatic thumbnails also support HD thumbnail images and the ARVE Pro Add-on will use HTML5 srcset so visitors devices will always use the right image size.
The image you see below is automatically requested from YouTube and loaded fast from their servers.
Card style Expand on Play feature#
You can display videos in a card style, additionally the Expand on Play feature is used here, it increases the width of the video when played. Expand on Play can also be used with the normal lazyload style.
Provider Support#
| Provider | URL | Auto Thumb. | Auto Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| ARVE works with all providers with iframe embed codes, can’t list them all | |||
| Alugha | |||
| Archive.org | |||
| Bitchute | |||
| Brightcove | |||
| Brighteon | |||
| Dailymotion | |||
| Dailymotion Playlist | |||
| DTube | |||
| Google Drive | |||
| mp4 or webm video files | |||
| IGN | |||
| IMDB | |||
| Kickstarter | |||
| kla.tv | |||
| Mail.ru | |||
| myspace | |||
| v.qq.com | |||
| Rumble.com | |||
| ok.ru | |||
| RuTube.ru | |||
| TED Talks | |||
| TikTok | |||
| Twitch | |||
| Viddler | |||
| Vimeo | |||
| VK | |||
| Wistia | |||
| XTube | |||
| xHamster | |||
| Yahoo | |||
| Youku | |||
| YouTube | |||
| YouTube Playlist | |||
| Kick | |||
If you have any pre-sales questions about the plugin, feel free to ask. For any issues, please open a support ticket. (Gerne auch auf Deutsch)