OsKracht Video Compressie
OsKracht Video Compressie helps you make large video files significantly smaller without visible quality loss. Your video is uploaded directly to OsKracht’s own processing infrastructure (powered by Hetzner’s high-performance servers), compressed there, and the resulting file is then stored on and streamed to your website’s visitors via Bunny.net’s fast, reliable CDN — so the file never needs to be sent back to your own WordPress server.
This makes the plugin especially strong for large files up to 2GB:
- Zero load on your own server: your website never has to store or stream the video itself, which saves a huge amount of bandwidth on your own hosting.
- Full control, no lock-in: you keep full control from your own WordPress dashboard (via shortcodes or the Elementor widget), without being tied to the branding or monthly subscription costs of traditional video platforms like Vimeo.
Because OsKracht hosts and streams the video externally, this is one of the most efficient ways to integrate large video files into WordPress.
Upload videos up to 2GB in size, well beyond what most WordPress hosting normally allows. The plugin uploads directly to a secure external processing server, completely bypassing your own site’s PHP upload limit (upload_max_filesize / post_max_size) – no server configuration changes needed.
The plugin sends your video to a secure external processing server (video.oskracht.nl) where compression takes place via FFmpeg. This happens because video compression is very resource-intensive and not suitable for regular shared WordPress hosting.
The video player’s display width is fully adjustable, both via the shortcode and directly in the Elementor widget.
Free trial: compress your first 2 videos for free, with no watermark. A one-time upgrade to Premium is available for unlimited use.
For developers managing multiple websites: create a free developer account at video.oskracht.nl/login to add and manage several client websites from one place, with a shared subscription and full control over how much storage and bandwidth each individual site is allocated.
External Services
This plugin uses an external service to compress videos, because video compression is too resource-intensive to run on regular (shared) WordPress hosting.
Service: OsKracht Video Compressie server (video.oskracht.nl), operated by OsKracht.
When: only when the site administrator deliberately uploads a video via the plugin’s settings screen, or selects an existing video in the media library to optimize. Data is never sent automatically or without the administrator’s action.
What data is sent:
– The video file to be compressed
– The website’s domain name (for license linking)
– The site administrator’s email address (required when activating the plugin, including for the free trial)
– Optional: if the site administrator uses the built-in sharing feature to send a compressed video by email, the recipient’s email address they provide is used once to send that email
Retention period: the uploaded original is removed from the external server immediately after processing. The compressed video remains on the server as long as the account is active. In case of prolonged inactivity (depending on the chosen plan, typically several months), the account holder first receives an email warning, with a reasonable period to become active again before deletion takes place.
Payments: processed via Stripe. OsKracht does not store any payment card details itself.
View the full privacy policy or contact [email protected]. By activating and configuring the plugin, you agree to sending the data described above to this external service.