Bitmovin Wordpress Plugin

The Bitmovin Wordpress Plugin comes up with a lot of features and services. Bitmovin HTML5 Adaptive Player The Bitmovin Adaptive Streaming Player is a highly optimised MPEG-DASH & HLS player for various platforms and devices, delivering the best streaming performance and user experience, particular in adverse (mobile) network conditions. bitdash™ is the result of continued R&D investments and incorporates patent pending technology resulting in MPEG-DASH compliant client solutions that deliver up to 101 % higher effective media throughput as well as significantly higher Quality of Experience (QoE) compared to existing adaptive bitrate streaming technologies and clients. It also comes with a lot of features:

• DRM support
• Ad support
• VR / 360°
• HLS, MPEG-DASH, Smooth, progressive content (mp4, and more)
• Fastest loading times

VR and 360° Video and Adaptive Bitrate Streaming The Bitmovin Wordpress Plugin utilizes the browser build-in HTML5 Media Source Extensions (MSE) to playback VR and omnidirectional content natively through the browser decoding engine. This playout technique is available on most modern web browsers.

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

1. Sign up for Bitmovin here.
2. Once logged in, go to account settings of your Bitmovin user account, get your API key.
3. Do not forget to add the domain your Wordpress is running on to the allowed domains in the player licenses view.
4. Install Bitmovin Player Wordpress Plugin from your Wordpress dashboard or unzip the plugin archive in the wp-content/plugins directory.
5. Activate the plugin through the Plugins menu in Wordpress.
6. Go to the Bitmovin Settings left menu page and fill in your API key.
7. Go to the Bitmovin left menu videos page and add a video with your configuration.
8. Copy the shortcode from the videos page table which looks like this [bitmovin_player id='1'] to your post.

v2.0.3

• fixed readme

v2.0.2

• fixed display of selected player key
• added composer.json

v2.0.1

• Plugin works with Bitmovin API now (IMPORTANT: it is no longer compatible with accounts that were created at app.bitmovin.com! Please see the installation instructions for more details)

v0.6.1

• Fixed VR settings menu

v0.6.0

• Added initial support to use our latest player versions as well
• Minor updates / improvements

v0.5.1

• Implemented the possibility to manually change the player version depending on the channel.
• Implemented a tooltip at the "Bitmovin Settings" page to provide the right API key.
• Implemented "Advanced" tag when editing or adding a video to bitmovin player. Customer can now manually paste the link to the preferred player version

v0.5.0

• Implemented beta version 0.5.0 of Bitmovin Wordpress Plugin.