Video/Audio Plugin
This is a small plugin guide to create your own video/audio plugin. It is designed for developers who have web programming skills (e.g. HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.). By the way, from the technical point of view, there are no differences between a video plugin and an audio plugin. You can load a video plugin as an audio plugin and vice versa. Therefore, there is only one API for both.
Note: For basic video/audio plugins, version 0.1.40 or higher is needed. For full-featured video/audio plugins, version 0.1.74 or higher is needed.
Video/Audio Plugin Basics[edit]
A video/audio plugin is nothing more than a simple HTML page that is loaded into an iframe. You do not even need to add any JavaScript or CSS file. Therefore, any HTML page can be loaded as a video/audio plugin (at least if the page does not refuse it via the X-Frame-Options HTTP header). Please see following example screenshot & code.
Note: The background color of the iframe is black.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>My Video/Audio Plugin</title>
<style type="text/css">
h1 {
font-family: sans-serif;
color: white;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My Video/Audio Plugin</h1>
</body>
</html>