I need to embed a YouTube player with the following attributes:
Must not allow users to go forward or back (no progress bar)
Must have access to player events (player disappears and message is displayed when video ends)
Must be able to go fullscreen and back to normal at user's request.
I was hoping the JS API would allow me to do this easily, but apparently Flash security makes it so the user has to click somewhere within the flash element itself in order to use Flash to go fullscreen.
As a workaround, right now I'm using the HTML5 fullscreen API as seen here: http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/full-screen/index.html
But this causes cross-browser funkiness and even appears to be messing with my player events (the video stops playing and goes back to the beginning when I requestFullScreen). I could try to work this angle some more but I'm praying there's an easier way.
I would love if there was some way to customize the embedded YouTube player to remove the progress bar but still allow fullscreen w/ Flash, since it's just so much more seamless. Is this even possible?
Your users should still be able to fullscreen by double clicking the video. The HTML5 fullscreen api should work fine, but if you're having issues where the flash plugin in re-initializing I would do two things. First report the bugs to the browser vendors so they can be fixed. Two listen for onYouTubePlayerReady a second time and add your event listeners again. Then seek to the point in the video they were at before going fullscreen.
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I have a Chrome extension that inserts a menu into the page, but whenever any flash or html5 video player goes full screen, anything outside of the video player is invisible.
Could I have two objects in full screen at the same time (one over the other), or is there another way to do this? I would rather not have to insert the html specifically into different places on different websites, because of the large variety of existing video players. The solution should be universal for all video players.
EDIT:
Since then, a lot of the web has moved to using html5 instead of flash, so this has become a very possible thing to do on almost all websites.
Here was the code I ended up writing and using. Hopefully this will help someone:
document.addEventListener("webkitfullscreenchange", function(){//Whenever an element becomes or stops being in full screen
//first, grab the page's fullscreenElement
var fse = document.fullscreenElement||document.mozFullScreenElement||document.webkitFullscreenElement||document.msFullscreenElement;
if(fse){//if there is a fullscreened element
fse.appendChild(menu);//append the menu inside the fullscreened element
}else{//if nothing is in full screen
if(window.self !== window.top){//if we are in an iframe
menu.remove();//hide menu if we are in an iframe
}else{//if we arn't in an iframe
document.body.insertBefore(menu, document.body.firstChild);//show menu
}
}
});
This is not likely to be possible. The video player fullscreen implementation takes over the entire screen; you do not have a browser window to overlay on anymore.
It's not the same as going fullscreen in your browser, where you still have the normal browser window to work with.
edit: to expand further;
With any video player using Flash, this is absolutely not possible, because you have no chance of any HTML elements to overlay onto; the fullscreen is handled by flash itself, and you can't do anything with that.
With HTML5, from my testing it also seems impossible. I went to this sample page, edited the HTML in the dev tools to try inserting a div inside the video element, but it won't render.
If you had control over the pages, it might be possible to fullscreen a container div instead of the video itself, and then achieve what you want, but since you can't control the pages in question, that likely won't help you at all (unless you wanted to try replacing IDs/etc in-page, but even that wouldn't guarantee success; if the page JS already had handles on the relevant elements, replacing IDs wouldn't update those)
Unfortunately as #Collin Grady mentioned this is not possible since the browser takes care when you play a fullscreen video.
You can still simulate full screen tho! You could modify the size of the video to adjust to the size of the screen (or whatever size you require). By doing this you still have control on your elements and can show your menu on top of the video.
There is an article in CSS Tricks that could guide you on how to modify the dimensions of a youtube video. The writer of the article wrote a jQuery plugin too called FitVids.JS
By Simulating full screen you could show what you want on top.
I hope this helps
I am creating a site that mostly contains video and am trying to get the same effect as seen on the trailers on www.apple.com/trailers where in clicking on the link to the video will display it at its specified resolution inside a slightly opaque black frame, thus removing distraction from the rest of the site. I am also at a loss for figuring out how to click upon the area outside of the video to stop viewing it.
At present I am using the tag with a small amount of javascript and custom css ui buttons, this would work fine but the native "fullscreen" function is ugly and i'm only looking to play the video in a window. My video also carries on playing when I come out of fullscreen, I would like that to stop.
Is there any way to simply code the functionality behind when clicking a placeholder, giving an opaque black frame in which the video at its specified resolution will sit and play, and then clicking outside of the frame will stop the video and take me back to where I found the video?
I have been fine hitherto working with lightboxes and just simply having an image "button" to fire videos off, however some requirements have recently changed in one particular scenario.
I have a custom area on a page that has is contained within a news rotator area. I've eliminated the rotation and it is now effectively just a menu, however I need to both define a custom size for a YouTube video player (the two default sizes, sans full screen, are not appropriate). Consequently I have to figure out how to define a custom size in between and preferably HTML5, falling back to Flash.
Next, I need to have an overlay image that will fall out of the way to uncover the YouTube player once clicked and activate the play function without interaction.
What's the best process to follow here? I would prefer to use YouTube for several reasons over a custom HTML5 player (although there are nice options I've used).
A big bonus would be if I could leverage js to display another overlay image once the video has completed playing.
In the end I moved away from YouTube towards another solution. It's not free, but it is a superior solution.
However, saying that #PaulIrish had a suggestion that merits review: http://www.blogseye.com/i-make-plugins/youtube-poster-plugin/
The solution I ended up leveraging in the end is Wistia. They have a solid player + experience and the metrics are really nice. I appreciate the prompt reply from support so there's that personal human touch you completely miss from YouTube, and that alone is worth paying for to me.
looking to use HTML5 video tag and JS. the aim is to make a video swap from one video to the next very smoothly just like a cut in the movie. I have had a look at the API
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/video.html#tracklist
if anyone has an idea that would be great. My current plan is to familiarise myself with the API and figuare out how to que up the video for a smooth change. currently sellect a src and then play() causes an ugly white space pause before the next video comes in.
many thanks for looking
Use firefox and make hardware acceleration on. if you have good hardware it should work.
and you can also try this method, imagine if you have 5 videos to play and when you are in the 2nd video you can keep them by the video currently you are playing ,keep them on left and right sides and make them pause. when you move on to the 3nd video you can just get that relevant video and make it play. this method should eliminate any unnecessary lags.
HTML5 videos use a very low amount of CPU, so there's no reason you can't have multiple tags on the page at the same time. I would suggest having them all on the page and then using CSS and JavaScript to transition between them.
You won't be able to make this work on iOS since it doesn't allow playback to initialize without user interaction. The user will have to click to start each video.
Annoying, but that's how Apple rolls.
I have a website that runs on WordPress. There is a DIV in the header that contains an embedded QuickTime video (controls are turned off and need to stay like that). I have an image that is supposed to go over the video, and when the user clicks on it, the video should be revealed and play.
I think that if I messed around with the CSS and Javascript for long enough, I could make the image go away and revel the embedded video when clicked on, but I don't know how to make the video start on that same "onclick" event. Another note here: I prefer to use jQuery to do this, since that's what I usually work with. But whatever works works.
This is driving me crazy because I can't find any good information on how to do this! Thank you so much in advance for helping me out.
If you already have a DIV that contains the video, you can create another same-sized DIV that contains your image. Finally, set the image DIV with higher z-index and float it over the video DIV.
I think this should work.
There's really no good way to do this when rendering the video using the QuickTime plugin. Plugins are optimized for performance and typically render above the rest of the "native" elements within your page.
I seem to recall there's a wmode="transparent" attribute or "opaque" that was introduced recently to the plugin similar to what's used with the Flash plugin, but the performance will typically suffer because the plugin renderer will often need to switch to rendering in software as it composites the video with the element you have on top of it, and possibly elements beneath it as well.
The easiest thing to do is to simply use a video element to play the media you want on your page. At that point it is an element like any other on the page and interacts seamlessly with the z-index ordering of positioned elements.
An example of the usage is here: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/introduction-html5-video/
You may need to nest differently encoded videos as video elements in the page so various user agents with support for different codes can play the video. But just adding the video element and pointing it at your current QuickTime video will work as well as a simple object using the QT plugin.