I am currently working on a google chrome extension that features a content script for altering youtube pages. I have done some work with altering the DOM already and all of that works, however, I have been looking for solutions to have the youtube video pause when the page loads.
I initially thought perhaps I could simulate a keystroke as the spacebar pauses youtube videos. I also tried using javascript to pause the video but I don't think it works with Youtube's custom video player.
Don't feel obligated to write any code for this but if someone could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful.
On the main page of a video, the HTML5 video element playing the video has a specific class, so you can target that; and as an HTML5 video element, it has the play() and pause() methods already.
document.querySelectorAll('.html5-main-video').forEach(vid => vid.pause());
That will pause all HTML5 main videos on the page. Helpfully enough, that's the same class used by the little autoplaying video on some channel pages, so it should work for those as well :)
(Don't worry about Flash videos; YouTube hasn't supported those for years now.)
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I am embedding a youtube/vimeo video onto my site with an iframe.
<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/{$entity->getYoutubeVideoID()}" ...></iframe>
The {$entity->getYouTubeVideoID()} bit is smarty template code syntax. I don't think that is the problem because the video uploads and plays fine in Chrome and IE9 and up. The video also uploads to firefox and safari fine, meaning I can see the video and it's the right one. But when I click the video it does not play in either firefox or safari.
What is interesting is that the other events are triggered. That is, on mouseover the play buttons on the videos change. On the youtube videos, the button in the middle with the play icon starts out as grey and on mouseover turns to red. So the iframe is registering events. But, it won't play on click. I have no idea where to go from here.
The only other event handlers I have on the iframe is this one but I doubt that is messing it up:
$(window).blur(function(){
if($('iframe').is(':focus')){
mySwipe.slide(mySwipe.getPos(), 1000);
}
});
(mySwipe refers to the swipe.js slideshow library)
I had an issue with playback buttons in firefox also. I was using a html5 Doctype, so I added the following after the youtube url
&html5=1
maybe this might help you.
I simply could not get embedded videos to play inside the swipe.js library (or any other touch enabled jquery library). My solution was to extract thumbnail images from vimeo/youtube APIs and use them as placeholders in the slideshow. Then register a click event on the thumbnail that opened the video in a lightbox.
I know this thread is six years old, but I recently had this problem and all of the solutions on the internet did not work. But I figured it out for my site:
If you have a secure site (HTTPS) and you embed a youtube video with the code posted here,
iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/{$entity->getYoutubeVideoID()}" ...
... Firefox will block it, because that is "Mixed content." HTTP is unsecure, so it is not allowed to show.
Youtube is an HTTPS site, so including that "s" in your URL will allow it to play in Firefox and IE without having to disable security.
Flexslider 2 basically solved it. Swipe.js is wonderful, but with playing youtube/vimeo in a slider Flexslider works better.
What is the best way to create a video player similar to the youtube video player in that after the video has played, it shows a collection of further videos to watch?
The videos are not hosted on youtube.
Generating the video suggestions is not a problem. The problem is displaying them in the player after the video finished playing in such a way that if the user clicks one of the suggestions, the selected video page is opened and played.
Can I do this in html5 or jquery or flash or something else?
JWPlayer is a good HTML5 video player with a Flash fallback. It also has a decent API which supports related videos: http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/addons/related-videos/22352/related-videos-reference-guide/.
There are a few license options too: http://www.longtailvideo.com/jw-player/pricing/
Hope that helps.
Can be done in Flash. You could use the FLVPlayback Component to play the original video. Then use the Listener Class to listen for COMPLETE. You could then place thumbnails for each of the related videos on top of the FLVPlayback Component - these would then load the new video into the component and the process would continue.
Check this tutorial out for using the component and also the Listener Class for the component.
I work on a website that embeds videos from many different websites, the number of sources run into the thousands. For YouTube, their JavaScript API allows a way to detect when the video ends and one can execute any function he wants at that time. But this will only work for the youtube videos. What about all the others?
So is there a global all applicable way to detect when the Flash video on a page has stopped playing using either javascript or action script? And by "stopped playing" I mean stopped playing when it reached the end and not just been paused half way.
P.S. There will always be one embedded video inside a <div> with the id video on the page.
Just like YouTube provides an API, those players from those external websites have to provide their own APIs as well. There isn't an easy one-size-fits-all solution that you can implement in JavaScript.
I'm looking to add some videos to my mobile webapp. For the best UX, I'd like to avoid having a simple static video-tag. (because its in an element which is webkit animated and video + webkit animations don't always play nicely together in my experience.)
Rather, I'd like to have an image (with a play icon on it) to "link" to the video. Mobile YouTube (as seen on iOS) have done this very nicely where when you click the image, the video seems to "pop" up to fullscreen and plays. How do they do this? Is it a link? A previously hidden video-tag? Some webkit-animation to do the "popping"?
I snooped around using Chrome Inspector (+user agent switcher to iphone4) but the videos don't play on the desktop browser, and the code overall looks quite complex..
Can you help?
What you can do is on-click of the video thumbnail, you can load the video url using the object/embed tags. In IOS, whenever a video starts playing it automatically plays it in fullscreen(feature of IOS itself)
I believe you can do something similar to this on certain browsers (e.g. WebKit.)
How do I make it so when I have an embed code for a video, if they click the video it goes to another page? but doesn't mess with the controls of the video itself?
Thanks!
Usually, the "link" the video goes to is actually controlled by the flash movie that plays the video. If you use HTML5 video, you can control it better with usual JS event listeners, but it's not supported everywhere.
Alternatively, you can put an absolutely positioned transparent image over the video part of the player, and use JS (or an tag) to turn it into a link to elsewhere, while leaving the controls uncovered. I would test this thoroughly, and it may not work as expected on older IE versions.