VP Factory – Video Players, the easy way | Developer's Corner

HTML 5 current restrictions

admin — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 08:35:06 +0000

The HTML5 feature enables your players and videos to run on iPhone/iPad/Android devices. Your players will now auto-detect your user’s playback device and display the proper version of the player and video. For more information, contact us.

The HTML 5 player can be embeded only using the JavaScript embed code
Websites that do not allow you to embed JavaScript code will not show the player when browsed with an iPhone/iPad device
Only videos stored on VP Factory, and adequately converted with VP Factory to run on iPhone/iPad can be watched in a HTML 5 player
Some player functionalities are not currently available in the HTML5 version of the player

PHP helper class

admin — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:52:44 +0000

If you would like to use PHP in order to communicate with our API, we have developed a small PHP class which containts all of the API available functions and a cURL wrapper.

You can download it here.

Here’s a short example on how to use it in ordet to get data for a certain player:

$key = 'YOUR_API_KEY'; $api = new ApiVPF($key); $xml_player = $api->getPlayer($player_id); $player = simplexml_load_string($xml_player, NULL, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

Developer’s Corner

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:46:43 +0000

Welcome developers,

We have great news!
As of today (18^th of May 2010) we have opened up the VP Factory API for testing purposes. You can check it out here.

It’s in beta stage and there still is room for improvement. We would appreciate your feedback and suggestions. You can also visit the Google Groups dedicated to the API to get support and ask questions.

API KEY

API access is available only to Start plan users, yet for a limited period of time (until 25^th of June 2010 July 30, 2010 ) anyone can apply for an API KEY. Your API key will remain active after this period.

To get a KEY: Login to your account (or register for a free account if you don’t have one yet), go to My Account section and press Request API KEY. You will receive your key via email.

Examples

Get an idea of what you can do with the API from these examples (Example 1, Example 2)

Need a hand to integrate VP Factory with your product or service? Get in touch with us.

API Example #2: External playlists

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:38:15 +0000

This example will show you how to create a playlist outside your player, together with thumbnails, video description and other video information.

Click here to view the example in action.

Click here to view the PHP code.

API Example #1: “Upload video” button

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:37:19 +0000

At the core of every video sharing website (such as Youtube, Vimeo and others) stands the functionality which enables uses to upload their own videos. An easy way to let the users upload their video content is to provide an upload button.

Click here to view the example in action.

Click here to view the PHP code.

What does it do?

It lets you browse for a video on your computer and then uploads the video into a test account. After the processing is over, the video will appear in the player

Limitations

The size limit for the uploaded video is 10 MB.
If you don’t have a video to match this size you can use this one. (Download it to your computer first)