Lucid Media

This version is out of date. The most recent version is at http://utilities.cinegage.com/videos-playing-in-place/. Please use that location.

vPIP (video Playing In Place) let's you specify a quicktime movie and it's parameters that will only embed after a specified poster image or link is clicked by the user.

Changelog

v. 0.02: replaced <vPIP ...> tag with <OBJECT ...> tag.

Version 0.02 (March 2, 2006)

Note: This is an alpha 2 version of the plugin with some developer testing Please report any bugs to enric {at} cirne {dot} com. I should be able to fix them within a day. The plugin only modifies the display of a page, so any bugs will not effect your system beyond how the wordpress page looks.

The plugin has been tested on a PC, please report any problems installing from a Mac or other OS

Installation

1. Download the zipped plugin from here.
2. Extract the plugin to the vPIP folder.
3. Upload the vPIP folder to your wordpress ./wp-content/plugins subdirectory.
4. If your using Wordpress 1.5, in admin mode go to Options->Writing and uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically".
   If your using Wordpress 2.x, as Admin go to Users->Your Profile and uncheck "Use the visual rich editor when writing". Then go to Options->Writing and uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly nested XHTML automatically". If your users will also be using the vPIP plugin, also uncheck Users should use the visual rich editor by default.
5. Go to Plugins and activate vPIP.

Your now ready to use vPIP for embedding quicktime movies when writing posts.

Usage

Note: this version of vPIP only works for quicktime movies. Do not use for other formats.

vPIP uses a custom version of the <OBJECT...></OBJECT> tag:

<OBJECT TYPE="application/vPIP+xml" [WIDTH="<integer{default=320}>" HEIGHT="<integer{default=260 -- 20 pixels for controller}>" ID="<unique name without spaces {default=src file name without extentsion}>" TITLE="<descriptive title used{default=id}>"] >
   <PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="<http location of quicktime file>">
   [<PARAM NAME="img" VALUE="<http location of poster image{default=vPIP poster image}>">
   <PARAM NAME="autoplay" VALUE="<true/false{default=true}>">
   <PARAM NAME="controller" VALUE="<true/false{default=true} >">]
</OBJECT>

The only required entries are <OBJECT TYPE="application/vPIP+xml"..> and <PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="<http location of quicktime file>">. A sample, minimal entry is:

<OBJECT TYPE="application/vPIP+xml" >
<PARAM NAME="src" VALUE="<http://www.myserver.com/media/myquicktime.mov>">
</OBJECT>

This will show the vPIP default image. When the image or link "Watch Movie" is clicked, http://www.myserver.com/media/myquicktime.mov will embed with controller at 320x260 and autoplay.

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   Enric