S3MediaVault – Amazon S3 Video & Audio Player and File Security for WordPress

Protect and Securely Embed Video, Audio, PDF (and any file) From Amazon S3 into Your WordPress Website (supports S3 & CloudFront)
What is S3 Media Vault?
If you have S3 media files – like Audio, Video, PDF, etc – in your Amazon S3 account, and you wish to protect them, and embed them in your WordPress website, membership site or online course, and prevent them from being shared illegally with unauthorized users, then S3MediaVault is the WordPress plugin that can help you do that.

Videos: If you have Video files (mp4) in your S3 account, S3MediaVault can create a beautiful Secure Video Player for your S3 Videos. Your members can watch the videos right on a page on your website, as well as them if you want them to. You can also create links for the videos right below the video so that your paying members can your premium content for offline viewing.

S3MediaVault also the first-ever WordPress plugin that lets you create encrypted Streaming Video and Streaming Audio.

“Impossible to ” Streaming Videos: We highly recommend allowing paying members to your content for offline use. And S3MediaVault very much allows you to create secure links for all of your content – Video, Audio, PDF, etc. However, for some reason, if you do *not* want anyone to your videos/audio, then S3MediaVault can do that too. S3MediaVault allows you to create HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) Videos with industrial-strength AES 128-Bit Encryption for both your videos and audio. This is “True Streaming” at its best, with the strongest security available for streaming videos and audio. None of your website visitors, subscribers, or members will be able to your videos from your website. Even software like Internet Manager (IDM) or browser extensions like Video er or Video Helper will not be able to your streaming video or audio. S3MediaVault is the only WordPress plugin that can create this level of security. Check out our encrypted streaming demo here.

Multi-Resolution Streaming with “Resolution Switcher” and “Video Stream Optimization”: S3MediaVault allows you to create streaming video in multiple resolutions. You can choose the resolutions in the Settings page – 1080p, 720p, 360p, 240p and 144p. And S3MediaVault automatically encodes your video in all of those resolutions with a single click. And when the viewer clicks play on the video, the S3MediaVault video player will automatically choose the lowest-but-best resolution for the viewer based on their internet speed. So, if they’re watching from a device which has slow internet speeds (like 3G, or 4G or maybe they’re using a service that doesn’t offer high-speed internet, or maybe throttles mobile access), the player will serve them the most optimized quality of video. That means, your streaming videos will load quickly for them regardless of their internet speed, saving them on their bandwidth bill, as well as saving you on your AWS bandwidth bill (win/win FTW!).

In addition, just like you can do on YouTube, your viewers will be able to change the resolution to a higher or lower number, and the switch will happen seamlessly without affecting their viewership experience.

Audio: If you have Audio files (mp3, wav, aac) in your S3 account, S3MediaVault can create a stunningly beautiful Secure Audio Player for your S3 Audio. Your members can listen to the audio right on a page on your website, as well as them (if you want them to, of course).

[NEW] “Impossible to ” Streaming Audio: We recommend allowing paying members to your content for offline use. And S3MediaVault very much allows you to create secure links for all of your content – Video, Audio, PDF, etc.

But if you don’t want them to your audio for whatever reason, S3MediaVault now lets you create “impossible to ” Streaming Audio with the same AES 128-Bit Encryption for your audio files as well (same technology used for Streaming Videos). Your website visitors, subscribers, or members will not be able to your audio from your website even if they use software like “Internet Manager” (IDM) or browser extensions like “Video er”.

PDF/Zip/Doc: If you have PDF, Doc, Zip, Images or any file with any extension, S3MediaVault can create secure links for those on any page on your website.

Whatever content you have in your Amazon S3 account, S3MediaVault can securely deliver them in your WordPress website. And all of the links to the Video, Audio & PDF, etc – are secure, expiring, links. Which means, they won’t work if they’re passed around or shared illegally with unauthorized users.

S3MediaVault works with both Amazon S3 & CloudFront to protect your Videos, Audio & PDF (and files with any extension) in your S3 account. And by also using CloudFront, you can also deliver them at blazing-fast speeds to your website visitors and members, wherever they are located in the world.

S3MediaVault has a Voice Recorder & Voice Mail feature. This offers you the easiest and simplest way to get your Audience to record their Voice and leave you Voicemail directly from your website. Imagine being able to get audio feedback from your audience: Audio Recordings from your Website Visitors, Fans, Followers, Podcast Listeners, YouTube subscribers, Social Media Followers, Current- and Future Customers, Members, Coaching Clients, Challenge Participants, Friends and Family, Business Associates and most importantly, your 1000 True Fans.

S3MediaVault also has Features like Video & Audio Playlists, Play Time and Usage Analytics, ability to show Captions in your videos (aka sub-titles) using .vtt (WebVTT) files for both single videos as well as Video Playlists, Captions for Streaming Audio, ability to do 1-Click Transcriptions of your audio and video (S3MediaVault internally uses Amazon’s AWS Transcribe to automate the transcriptions), has the Prettiest Audio Player on the Planet which is super-customizable, In-Video Ads where you can show any kind of ad (HTML, Video, Audio, Text, Image, etc) on your own Videos as well as even on YouTube videos, show a Watermark of either an Image (eg., your Logo) or Text, make the logo or text watermark clickable, etc.

Personalized Dynamic Watermarks: S3MediaVault now offers a cool new feature where you can show a personalized dynamic watermark on the video that your member is watching. And this watermark can show any of the following information – Email, Username, Full Name, IP, Name & Email, or Name/Email/IP – of the viewer who’s logged in to WordPress and actually watching the video.

S3MediaVault can also do Sticky, Picture-in-Picture videos (that floats with the viewer as they scroll down the page, like you see on Facebook or Twitter); Pause at CuePoint and show a Custom HTML message below the video only to logged-in users, and when they log in and go back to the same page, the video will now recognize that they’re now logged into WordPress, and will play through to the end without any interruptions; Ability to use video files with 4:3 and 9:16 aspect ratio, both Standard and Streaming, without any black bars showing up on either side of the video. You can now choose from 16:9 (default), 4:3 (squarish) and 9:16 (vertical).

If you have Video, Audio or PDF, and you are using WordPress, no other WordPress plugin even comes close to the Automation, Power, Ease-of-Use, Features and Pricing offered by S3MediaVault.

S3MediaVault Demos

Video Demos

1. Streaming Video with Encryption
2. Standard Video Player
3. Video Playlist Player
4. Video with Timestamps
5. Video with Captions
6. Pause Video at Cue Point
7. Video Player Color Customization
8. In-Video Ads on YouTube Videos
9. YouTube Video Player
10. Video Watermark w/ Image/Text
11. Moving & Personalized Dynamic Watermarks

Audio Demos

1. Standard Audio Player
2. Streaming Audio with Encryption
3. Audio Playlist Player

PDF and Other Demos

1. PDF Link
2. PDF Web Viewer (Hard to )
3. PDF Embed within Page/Post
4. Voice Recorder & Voice Mail

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Amazon S3 Audio Player (screenshot)

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The image above is a screenshot of the S3MediaVault Audio Player for Amazon S3 & CloudFront. The demo it is configured to securely play the 1st episode of my private Audio Book, “Podcasting Confessions”. The audio file has been securely stored on Amazon S3, delivered through Amazon CloudFront, and the audio will only play from this web site. Even if you do a view source of the file and try to grab the direct MP3 URL, that link will not work after 15 minutes from a different computer or device (email it to yourself and try to open the link from a different device after 15 minutes – it won’t work). Of course, you can configure the 15 minute expiration to be as little as 1 minute, or more, if you wish.
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Amazon S3 Video Playlist (Screenshot)
Multi-Video Playlist with optional Continuous Play – so you can deliver multiple course videos as one single, compact, playlist, instead of having a whole bunch of videos down a long-scrolling page.

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Amazon S3 Audio Playlist (Screenshot)

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Prettiest S3 Audio Player on the Planet!

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1. Large “Play” button
2. Customizable Title for the audio. If you don’t provide it, it will display file name.
3. “” icon that provides a direct link to the audio file, and upon being clicked, will give user option to either “Save” the file or “Open” it. Very similar to any other file you from the web.
4. Smart-Speed: Clicking on it allows the playback to play at speeds of 1x, 1.5x and 2x. And the smart-speed feature speeds up the audio by cutting out the dead-air, gaps and silences, and will make the overall audio sound faster and won’t make the person speaking sound like a chipmunk
5. Starting timestamp always shows how much time has elapsed since the audio started playing.
6. Nice and big “scrubber” allows the listener to easily fast-forward or rewind the audio according to their convenience.
7. Fully customizable Player color (player background). Comes with a easy-to-use Color Picker with a full color palette that lets you pick any color of your choice for the player background. You can also enter Hexadecimal codes (like “#0faacc”) if you already know what color you wish to use.
8. Has a border that also has a color picker and you can choose any color for the border as well.
9. Ending timestamp always shows how much time is left in the audio being played.
10. Fully customizable Audio Artwork that you can configure using any Image URL hosted anywhere online – including, of course, on your own WordPress site in your Media Library.

S3MediaVault Features

• Made for Amazon S3 & CloudFront: It can securely deliver files via both Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

• CloudFront Integration: Blazing-fast media loading speeds for your members. Up to 45% faster loading speeds for videos and audio compared to using just S3 alone.

• “True Streaming” of Videos: Secure Video Streaming for your most important videos that you may not want anyone to able to to their device.

• HLS Video Streaming: “HTTP Live Streaming”, aka HLS, is a media streaming protocol for delivering visual and audio media online. It was created by Apple in 2009. And S3MediaVault.com supports HLS Video Streaming.

• Practically “Impossible to ” AES 128-Bit Encryption: Using Amazon’s API’s and HLS Streaming, there’s no longer a .mp4 file. Instead, it becomes a .m3u8 file (aka “Playlist”) that is chopped up into a number of smaller chunks – aka “segments” – basically multiple, partial pieces of the video, which have the .ts file extension.

  In addition, S3MediaVault also encrypts the stream using industrial-strength AES 128-bit Encryption (the highest level supported by HLS streaming technology). Which means, even if someone, somehow manages to the video segments, and tries to manually put them together, or uses some slick video ing software like Internet Manager (IDM), they won’t be able to play the video, because the video chunks are encrypted using a secret key known only to S3MediaVault on your website (and Amazon, of course). Even browser extensions like Video er or VideoHelper (with its desktop companion software) won’t be able to break the strong encryption. That’s how strong the S3MediaVault security is when it comes to Encrypted Streaming Videos.

• S3MediaVault quietly and seamlessly takes care of all the technology, so you don’t need to do anything manually, or even know how it’s all working on the back-end. Just click a few buttons and fill out a couple of details, and you’re ready to start streaming!

  And with streaming video, the video is never actually “ed” to your computer (like a regular, progressive video would be ed). That means, even if you did a view-source and ed the .m3u8 file, you still can’t play that file because that’s not the actual video – that’s just the “playlist”, and is just a text file.

  There’s no single video file any more. The stream is made up of a bunch of different .m3u8 & .ts files. And the MP4 video becomes a flowing stream with the main file having the extension M3U8. And because the video is never fully ed to the browser, but streamed in real-time, segment by segment, and it is encrypted, it is practically impossible to it.

• So the only real way for someone on your website – like a subscriber, visitor or member – to a streaming video, is if *you* create a link for them, which is possible with S3MediaVault. Of course, they could always use a screen-capture like Camtasia or ScreenFlow, or even use a phone to record the computer screen. But that is simply not avoidable – you can do that even with Netflix, Hulu, Amazon or HBO. So unless you create your own software or device, like Apple has with iTunes and Apple TV, you simply cannot protect it 100% from piracy.

• Nothing is 100% secure online. Even servers of Sony, Microsoft and Google and companies with a multi-million dollar security team get hacked. But as a website owner, if you want to make it hard to for 99.99% of your website visitors, subscribers and members, then that’s exactly what S3MediaVault’s Encrypted Streaming is for.

  However, we recommend that if you have a choice, then keep your videos are regular progressive videos, which are also just as secure from unauthorized users, however, authorized users might be able to it – even if you don’t provide a direct link – using software like Internet Manager (IDM) or browser plugins like Video er. They are, after all, paying you for your premium content – so why make them jump through hoops to consume your content? Plus it’s not always practical to be online and logged in to a website and use internet access to watch videos every single time. They may want to your content for offline use. But if you are in a niche where piracy is rampant, or don’t want your videos to be ed for whatever reason, then S3MediaVault is the best plugin to let you do exactly that.

• Progressive : You can also use the Standard S3MediaVault protection of your videos – a.k.a “Progressive s”. You don’t have to use True Streaming (and we don’t recommend you create only streaming videos, because it makes it harder for your members to watch your content offline).

• Multi-Resolution Streaming with Resolution Switcher and Automated Streaming Optimization: S3MediaVault allows you to create streaming video in multiple resolutions. You can choose the resolutions in the Settings page – 1080p, 720p, 360p, 240p and 144p. And when they first hit Play on the video, the S3MediaVault video player will automatically choose the lowest-but-best resolution for the viewer based on their internet speed. If they’re watching from a device which has slow internet speeds (like 3G, or 4G or maybe they’re using a service that doesn’t offer high-speed internet, or maybe throttles mobile access), the player will serve them the most optimized quality of video. That means, your streaming videos will load quickly for them regardless of their internet speed, saving them on their bandwidth bill, as well as saving you on your AWS bandwidth bill (win/win FTW!).

• In addition, just like you can do on YouTube, your viewers will be able to change the resolution to a higher or lower number, and the switch will happen seamlessly without affecting their viewership experience.

• Streaming Audio: S3MediaVault now lets you create “impossible to ” Streaming Audio with the same AES 128-Bit Encryption for your audio files as well (same technology used for Streaming Videos). Your website visitors, subscribers, or members will not be able to your audio from your website even if they use software like “Internet Manager” (IDM) or browser extensions like “Video er”.

• In-Video Ads on Start, Middle & End (a.k.a Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll and Post-Roll)

• In-Video Ads can be any HTML: Image, Text, Links, Banner Ad, Video, Audio, YouTube Video Embed, WordPress Shortcode, iFrame, or even a Signup Form to build a list

• You can even show In-Video Ads on YouTube videos! Just imagine the possibilities of publishing any YouTube video (yours or someone else’s) on your website and then showing your own Pre-roll, Mid-roll and Post-roll ads on other people’s videos!

• Watermark (Image, Logo or Text): You can add a Watermark to your videos. This can be either an Image (eg., Logo), or Text. You can add it in any corner of your video; Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left and Bottom Right.

  If you use text, you can choose the text color as well as the background color for that text. Both the image/logo or text can also be linked to any URL of your choice, so that if someone clicks on the image or text, it will open a new tab and take them to that website URL.

• Personalized Dynamic Watermarks: You can add the viewer’s Name, Email, Username, IP, Name + Email, Name+Email+IP dynamically to the video they’re watching, as a watermark. The Personalized Dynamic Watermark can also be made to move randomly across the screen every “X” seconds (“X” is configurable), all over the video.

  Which means they can’t just trim the video along the corners to avoid showing the watermark. The watermark will keep moving all across the screen randomly as the video plays, so if they try to capture your videos, then their private content will be included in the video, and it is unavoidable.

• Of course, the personalized watermark (like name, email, IP, etc) will change for each viewer. Each viewer will ONLY see their own information in the videos that they’re watching. So there’s no privacy issues there. If you are in a niche where piracy is rampant, adding a personalized watermark with the viewer’s private information will usually deter them from ing or screen-capturing your videos and sharing it with others illegally or in an unauthorized manner.

• If you ever find one of your premium videos being shared without your permission, if you had enabled Personalized Dynamic Watermark, then the video being pirated will have the personal information of the viewer who pirated it to begin with, and you can take necessary action. Personalized information in the watermarks, like Name, Email and Username, are only shown when the user is logged in to WordPress. But IP can be shown even on publicly accessible videos where the viewer is not logged in to your website via WordPress.

• Works on ALL devices: iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Mac and every Operating System ever created!

• Mobile-Responsive Video & Audio player will look- and work great on devices of all shapes and sizes

• S3 Video Player – HTML5. No Flash Required

• S3 Audio Player – HTML5. No Flash Required

• Video Playlist: Bundle any number of Amazon S3 files or public mp4 links to create a combined Video Playlist Player.

• Audio Playlist: Bundle any number of Amazon S3 files or public mp3 links to create a combined Feed Player – aka Audio Playlist Player.

• Built-in File Protection: Protect all of your files – like PDF, Doc, Zip, Exe, even Images!

• Protects your Video, Audio, PDF and all other file types from being illegally shared with unauthorized members.

• Anywhere Playlists: Create the audio playlist using secure S3 or CloudFront URL’s. Or use any publicly stored mp3 url’s stored anywhere – like your own WordPress site, Dropbox, etc.

• Clickable Timestamps: Insert clickable timestamp links below your videos, with a description, so that the viewer can jump right to certain points in the video that interests them.

• Advanced Media Analytics: Track Shortcode loads Per User, Track Video Views Per User, Remember Video Play Progress Per User

• Time-Delay Buttons & HTML Content: You can now take a pre-created button or HTML content (like text, images, etc), set it to be initially hidden, and then make it appear below the video at a specific time (you can configure how many seconds into the video it should appear).

• Closed Captions: You can show Captions on your videos. S3MediaVault supports WebVTT format (.vtt caption file extension). You can configure the captions to show by default (and the user can turn it off), or it can be disabled by default (and the user can turn it on).

• Full Video Player Skin Customization: Customize the colors of the Play Button Background, Play Button Border, Text, Icons, Control Bar, Volume and Scrubber. Customize the size of the Play Button, and its location as well. You can center it on the player when the video initially loads, or if you wish to give prominence to your splash image and not cover it up with the big play button, you can position the play button on the top left or bottom left corners.

• Content Expiration: You can choose media (Video, Audio, PDF, etc) to expire either based on Date & Time, or based on number of Views (basically, number of times it is loaded for each member/visitor). Very useful when publishing an expiring Video, Audio, or PDF link to introduce scarcity to make your audience take action sooner.

• It’s a WordPress Plugin: Installs in seconds and can be set up in under 5 minutes

• 1-Click Transcriptions: In the Media Manager page, S3MV will show you the list of all files in your S3 bucket. Click a link and get the transcription in minutes.

• 1-Click CloudFront setup: A single button click sets up CloudFront integration end-to-end. Just add security keys.

• S3 Media Manager: Manage all S3 files from within the plugin itself. Upload multiple files at once (or one at a time), upload files of any size directly from your computer to S3, by passing your web host. Create new top-level Buckets in your S3 account, create and delete Sub-Folders within your bucket, delete S3 files, even them to your computer. No need to log in to the S3 web control panel, other than just once during initial setup to get the Security Keys.

• Full S3 Browser: Browse and Choose S3 files to use with the shortcodes with just one click.

• Instant Playlists: Just select the “Playlist” option, leave file name blank, and all Videos or Audio in that bucket (or sub-folder) will automatically be turned into an Instant playlist. Choose “Audio Playlist”, leave file name field blank, then all (and only) audio files in the bucket (or sub-folder) will be used to create an Instant Audio Playlist. Select “Video Playlist”, leave file name field blank, then all (and only) the video files in that bucket (or sub-folder) will be used to create an Instant Video Playlist.

• Instant Media Page: A unique feature of S3MediaVault. Just put all of your module or course files into a single folder, and create one shortcode for it using the “Instant Media Page” option. And S3MediaVault will create secure links for all of the media files in that bucket. So if you have 5 videos, 3 audios and 2 PDF’s in that folder, then using just one shortcode, you can create a page on your website that shows your members 5 video players, 3 audio players, and 2 PDF links. So no need to create 10 different shortcodes – just one shortcode will securely embed them all on a page.

• Replace All WordPress Native Video & Audio Players with S3MediaVault Video and Audio Players: If you have embedded any public video or audio files directly within your WordPress Pages or Posts – directly from your WordPress Media folder, a video you FTP’ed to your website or stored on another website, or stored anywhere for that matter, you can now turn on a S3MediaVault setting under “Settings” page that will instantly replace all Video and Audio URL’s (directly embedded into your WordPress Pages and Posts) with the awesome S3MediaVault Video and Audio Players.

• What’s the benefit of this? S3MediaVault’s default Video player provides advanced features like Skip-Forward-15-seconds and Skip-backwards-15-seconds icons, and also has the Speed icon which will allow your viewers to watch your video at higher or lower speeds. The WordPress native video player doesn’t provide either of those features.
  * S3MediaVault’s default Audio player is way more beautiful than the plain-and-boring WordPress audio player. Plus the S3MediaVault Audio Player has a “” icon right in the player, and it also has the Speed icon which will allow your listeners to listen to the audio at higher speeds. And the WordPress native audio player doesn’t offer any of those benefits.

• Looping Video: Check a checkbox and turn the video into a looping video that will play continuously on repeat, starting from the beginning each time after it ends.

• AB Loops (or A/B Loops or Custom Loops): Your viewers can now create their own A/B loops or Custom Loops of your videos. If you enable this for a Video shortcode, it will show 3 new items in the player control bar: Start-time, End-time, and Loop On/Off. They can click on the Start-timer at whichever point they want the loop to start, click on the End-timer whenever they want it to stop, and then click “Loop On” and the video will start playing continuously between those two points. If they click “Loop off”, the loop will exit, and the video will continue playing as normal till the end. This feature is available to Elite licenses. Custom loops are very useful when you are in a niche – like say, a instrument- or music- learning niche – and you want your students or members to be able to watch something over and over again (like a guitar fingering lesson).

• Picture-in-Picture, Floating, Sticky Videos: This is a very cool new feature that you have probably seen on social media sites Twitter and Facebook, where you will be watching a video, and if you scroll down past the video, the video you were watching will shrink in size, and move to the lower right corner of your screen and show up in a much smaller size, and continues playing. And it continues to float in the lower right corner while you continue reading and keep scrolling down the page. This allows your visitors to keep reading the text on a page while continuing to watch the video. And if they scroll back up to where the main video was, the floating video will close itself and pop back into the main video, and will continue to play.

• Pause at Cue Point and show a Custom HTML message: You can now make a video stop at a Cue Point and show custom HTML below the video only for non-logged-in members (those not logged into WordPress). When they log in and go back to the same page, the video will now recognize that they’re now logged into WordPress, and will play through to the end without any interruptions.

  This is very useful for teaser videos for non-members which you want only to play for short duration certain number of minutes, and then stop and show a custom message below the video asking them to, say sign up for by showing them a signup form, or by paying for it by showing them a buy button.

• Multiple Aspect Ratios: Ability to use video files with aspect ratios of 16:9 (default), 4:3 (squarish) and 9:16 (vertical), without any black bars showing up on either side of the video.

• Members-Only Shortcodes: You can now make a shortcode accessible only to logged-in members who are logged in to WordPress. If they’re not logged in, you can show them a customizable error message, like giving them a link to where they can sign up to get access, where to log in before they can watch your video, etc.

• Bulk Encode Media for Streaming & Streaming-Status Icon: You can bulk-prepare all files for streaming with one single click. Elite users will see 3 new buttons on the Media page: Prepare all AUDIO for Streaming, Prepare all VIDEO for Streaming and Prepare all VIDEO & AUDIO for Streaming. And with one click, you can now prepare all of the Audio, Video, or Both, for streaming. And once they’re prepared, the check icon will show next to each file, on the Media page.

  Every time you prepare a file for streaming, you will now see a notification check icon next to the file name, indicating that the file has already been prepared for streaming. So there will be no more confusion about whether or not a file has been previously prepared for streaming (you would’ve previously had to look at the streaming files).

• Option to Hide Player Speed, and Hide Skip icons (both Forward and Backward)

• S3MediaVault was launched in 2009, and was the 2nd-ever WordPress plugin created for Amazon S3. We’re still going strong to-date with tens of thousands of active users. With the plugin that launched before us having become gone out of business a few years ago, S3MediaVault is now officially the oldest – and arguably the very best – WordPress plugin to protect and deliver Amazon S3 Video, Audio, PDF and other files.

• S3MediaVault is actively developed and supported since its launch, by the creators of world-class plugins like DigitalAccessPass.com, SmartPayCart.com, CoolCastPlayer.com and others. See our Changelog to see how often we release new versions with new features, updates and bug fixes.

Player & Shortcode Analytics

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Smart Speed

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Advanced Shortcode Editor
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