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Video Editable

General

The video editable is a powerful editable to embed videos in the content. Supported video sources are: local assets, YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Local asset videos support the automatic generation and transcoding of videos using Video Thumbnails.

Configuration

Name	Type	Description
`attributes`	array	Additional attributes for the generated `<video>` tag - only for type asset
`disableProgressReload`	bool	Set to true to disable the automatic page refresh while the video thumbnail is generated
`editmodeImagePreview`	bool	Set to true to display only an image and not the video player in editmode, this can be necessary if you have many videos on one page (performance)
`height`	integer	Height of the video in pixel
`imagethumbnail`	string	Name of the image-thumbnail, this thumbnail config is used to generate the preview image (poster image), if not specified Pimcore tries to get the information out of the video thumbnail. see also: Video Thumbnails
`removeAttributes`	array	You can remove standard attributes using this configuration, e.g. "removeAttributes" => ["controls","poster"]
`thumbnail`	string	Name of the video-thumbnail (required when using automatic-transcoding of videos) see: Video Thumbnails
`width`	integer	Width of the video in pixel
`youtube`	array	Parameters for youtube integration. Possible parameters: https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters - only for type youtube
`class`	string	A CSS class that is added to the surrounding container of this element in editmode

Methods

Name	Arguments	Return	Description
`getImageThumbnail($name)`	(string/array) $name	string, absolute path to the thumbnail	Get a specific image thumbnail of the video, or a thumbnail of the poster image (if assigned)
`getPosterAsset()`		Asset	Returns the assigned poster image asset
`getThumbnail()`	(string/array) $name	array, absolute paths to the different video thumbnails	Get a specific video-thumbnail of the video
`getVideoAsset()`	-	asset	Returns the video asset object if assigned, otherwise null
`getVideoType()`	-	string, type of the video (asset,youtube,vimeo,url)	This is to check which video type is assigned
`getTitle()`	-	string	Title of the video
`getDescription()`	-	string	Description of the video
`getData()`	-	array	All the available data on this editable
`isEmpty()`	-	bool	Whether the editable is empty or not.

Output returned by getPosterAsset:

[status] => finished
[formats] => Array
    (
        [mp4] => /var/tmp/video_3414__example.mp4
    )

Examples

Basic Usage - a Local Asset

To create a container for local video files you can just use the $this->video helperwithout any options.

<section id="campaign_video">
    <?= $this->video("campaignVideo", [
        "width" => 700,
        "height" => 400
    ]); ?>
</section>

In the editmode, there is now a container available where you can assign an asset path and a video poster.

Video editable window - editmode

YouTube, Vimeo & Dailymotion

You can use videos from external services, as well (at the moment, YouTube, Vimeo and Dailymotion) but with limited functionalities. In the video edit dialog, change the type to youtube and fill the ID input with a video identifier or the video URL. (in that case you can easily find it in the url).

Video editable - YouTube configuration - editmode

Have a look at the frontend preview:

Video editable - YouTube configuration - frontend

In the configuration, you could also specify additional options for external services.

<section id="campaign_video">
    <?= $this->video("campaignVideo", [
        "width" => 700,
        "height" => 400,
        "youtube" => [
            "autoplay" => 1,
            "modestbranding" => 1
        ],
        "vimeo" => [
            "autoplay" => 1,
            "loop" => 1
        ]
    ]); ?>
</section>

HTML5 with Automatic Video Transcoding (using video.js)

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
    <link href="http://vjs.zencdn.net/5.4.4/video-js.css" rel="stylesheet">
</head>
<body>
 
    <?= $this->video("myVideo", array(
        "thumbnail" => "example", // NOTE: don't forget to create a video thumbnail
        "width" => 400,
        "height" => 300,
        "attributes" => ["class" => "video-js custom-class", "preload" => "auto", "controls" => "", "data-custom-attr" => "my-test"]
    )); ?>
 
    <script src="http://vjs.zencdn.net/5.4.4/video.js"></script>
</body>
</html>