For a detail guide, please visit the PrettyEmbed Wiki
The PrettyEmbed series are media player (Video/Vimeo/Youtube) for Neos CMS - with nice options like high-res preview images, lightbox feature and advanced customization of embed options.
This package installs following packages:
If you install the PrettyEmbedCollection the video players get grouped into a own group in the node inspector, otherwise they will be in the default group.
Most of the time, you have to make small adjustments to a package (e.g., configuration in Settings.yaml). Because of
that, it is essential to add the corresponding package to the composer from your theme package. Navigate to this package
in your CLI and run the following command:
composer require jonnitto/prettyembedcollection --no-updateThe --no-update command prevent the automatic update of the dependencies. After the package was added to your package
composer.json, go back to the root of the Neos installation and run composer update. Et voilà! Your desired package
is now installed correctly.
What are the differences from the PrettyEmbed series to Jonnitto.Plyr?
| PrettyEmbed series | Plyr | |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube Video | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube Playlist | ✓ | |
| Vimeo | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native Audio | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native Video | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced captions for native video | ✓ | |
| Preview image | ✓ | |
| Lightbox included | ✓ | |
| Preview image | ✓ | |
| Javascript API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filesize (JS & CSS) | smaller | bigger |
All packages from the PrettyEmbed series have the benefit of a better frontend performance since the player gets only loaded on request. So, no iframe/video get's loaded until the user wants to watch a video.