October 31, 2022

TomS Video Player Plugin

Simply protect your videos from being downloaded 'Directly'.

TomS Video Player is a Simple HTML5 video player. Simply protect your videos from being downloaded ‘Directly’. Absolutely light weight and easy to use even without explanation. This is a video block and all settings inside the block, means that this plugin only work on gutenberg editor(the wordpress core block editor),
if your theme support the block editor, you can add our block any where you want. No support the shortcode. Of course, you don’t need to upload video files to the wordpress media library. You can paste video url directly .You can store your video files on a CDN server to reduce the burden on the wordpress server.

Features

You can easily to add or remove the attrubutes of the HTML5 video from the <video> element via our block settings.

Video Settings:

🎞️ Video Block – Temporarily disable Video Block.
🪧 Poster Image – add poster=”” to the <video> elememt.

Option Settings:

🎛️ Playback Controls – add controls to the <video> elememt.
🪞 Disabled Picture in picture – add disablepictureinpicture=”true” to the <video> elememt.
🖱️ Disabled Save video as… – if enabled, the video screen can’t right click. other areas do not affect, default is enabled.
🪞 Auto Picture in picture – add autopictureinpicture=”true” to the <video> elememt.
🎥 AutoPlay – add autoplay to the <video> elememt.
📹 Loop – add loop to the <video> elememt.
🔇 Muted – add muted=”true” to the <video> elememt.
📽️ Plays Inline – add playsinline to the <video> elememt.
📐 Disabled Responsive Video Size – if enabled, will remove the responsive css from the <video> elememt.
📏 Set video size manually – if enabled, will show the Width and Height input field under the video url input field, you can set the video player size manually, but not responsive. this will add [width=””] and [height=””] to the <video> elememt.
⛔ No Dowload – add controlsList=”nodownload” to the <video> elememt.
⛔ No Fullscreen – add controlsList=”nofullsrceen” to the <video> elememt.
⛔ No Remote Playback – add controlsList=”noremoteplayback” to the <video> elememt.
⏳ Preload – add preload=”” to the <video> elememt. It may have one of the following values: “auto”, “metadata”, “none”. Default: metadata.

Here is the details of the <video> elememt’s attributes.

🌎 Translation ready

Translations

Reliance upon any non-English translation is at your own risk; TomS Video Player can give no guarantees that translations from the original English are accurate.

We recognise and thank those mentioned at https://toms-caprice.org/translations for code and/or libraries used and/or modified under the terms of their open source licences.

Screenshots

TomS Video Player block
TomS Video Player options Setting
add Toms Video Player block from widget inserter
TomS Video Player widget go to the settings
TomS Video Player widget settings
add Toms Video Player block from inserter
TomS Video Player block on selected
TomS Video Player display effect after published

FAQ

Can this video player completely prevent users from downloading my videos?

No! No one can stop the user to download your video if they can watch your video on your website. This plugin just prevent users from downloading your video via “Save video as”， and hide the download button provided by HTML5 Video.

Is this plugin lightweight ?

Yes! Absolutely lightweight! This plugin only output a few lines of the necessary code, no .css and .js files load to the frontend.

Why the AutoPlay not work ?

The autoplay may cause usability issues for some users. Enabled the Autoplay and the Muted options may be work. if you want to know more about this,see here.

Why my video can’t play in the Opera Browser ?

Are your video file is mp4? The Opera browser does not supported the mp4 format by default. You can try other video format like “.webm” .

Why the Disable Picture In Picture attribute in the Firefox Browser not work ?

This is the Firefox browser to control it and let the user to manage this option, not the website.

This plugin support shortcode ?

No, this is a block of gutenberg.

Changelog

The TomS Video Player is the best place to learn in more detail about any important changes.

2.1.8 – 26/Oct/2022

Tweak: WordPress 6.0.3 compatibility
Tweak: WordPress 6.1 compatibility
Tweak: WordPress full site editor compatibility
Tweak: update new brand logo.

2.1.7 – 04/Mar/2022

Tweak: WordPress 5.9.1 compatibility
Fixed: Preview error of TomS Block menu items.

2.1.6 – 02/Jan/2022

TWEAK: update the Screenshots
TWEAK: Tested up to: 5.8.2

2.1.5 – 15/Oct/2021

Feature : Add TomS Extra Source Add-on support.
TWEAK: Arrange again, move the url input field to the block main area.
TWEAK: Show the url input field, Only the Block state is selected.
TWEAK: Change the Block alignment default value ‘left’ to ‘none’;
The layout follows WordPress block layout standard.

2.0.4 – 09/Oct/2021

change the block namespace.

2.0.3 – 08/Oct/2021

Fixed custom block category ERROR in widgets block inserter.

2.0.2 – 07/Oct/2021

Optimize some condition judgments

2.0.1 – 07/Oct/2021

Fixed Notice: Undefined index ERROR.

2.0.0 – 05/Oct/2021

New design! Experience it now!
Redesign the architecture
Compatible with 1.0.0

1.0.0 – 16/Sep/2021

Initial release

Older changes are found in the changelog.txt file in the plugin directory.