For a detail guide, please visit the PrettyEmbed Wiki
Prettier embeds for your native videos in Neos CMS - with excellent options like high-res preview images, lightbox feature, captions, and advanced customization of embed options.
| Version | Neos | Maintained |
|---|---|---|
| 1.* | ^4.2.* + 5.* | ✗ |
| 2.* | ^4.2.* + 5.* | ✗ |
| 3.* | ^4.2.* + >= 5 | ✗ |
| 4.* | >= 5.3 | ✗ |
| 6.* | >= 7.3 | ✓ |
The version jump was made to have all packages from the PrettyEmbed series on the same number
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/prettyembedvideo --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.
This package is member of the PrettyEmbedCollection which contains following packages:
If you install the PrettyEmbedCollection, the video players get grouped into an own group in the node-inspector; otherwise, they will be in the default group.
What are the differences between 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 (for videos) | ✓ | |
| Javascript API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filesize (JS & CSS) | smaller | bigger |
All packages from the PrettyEmbed series benefit from a better frontend performance since the player gets only loaded on request. So, no iframe/video gets loaded until the user wants to watch a video.