I am making an interactive video series in which the viewer can click the annotations to view another video of mine. I have the embedded player on my website, but when I click the annotation linking to another video, it opens a new tab where the video will play on YouTube. How can I make it so that the viewer watches the new video in the same embedded player, without leaving the site?
This is off the top of my head, so not 100% sure, but wourth a try.
First off, you wil need to use the api embedded player. Then you can target it.
You will then need to script the links to target it. Thinking about it, it might not work as the player is "hosted" off your page.
A different way that might be better and should work, is to do a "GET" request on your page and reload your page using the ID to load the required video.
EG.. http: //www.yoursite.com/player.php?videoID=VideoID as link.
I use this in my site for some things, but never tried it with annotations, but should work.
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I couldn't find a proper explaination, tutorial or thread online explaining the following: I "simply" want to load a Vimeo Video (where I have a pro-Account) without controls (play, pause, timeline, whatsoever) just the pure video (also without the black bar top and bottom) and stream it within a div I created. I want the video to be always fully filling this div.
How can I use the Vimeo-API to do that? I found examples of the Vimeo-API but nowhere I could find anything regarding loading the plain video file.
According to this answer, your Vimeo videos should have a "play in external player" link (Pro account required):
Go to your Video Settings and Video File, at the bottom there is a section called Use Your Own Player, you'll find there direct urls to your video.
You can embed that direct URL in a player of your choice - e.g. a <video> element:
<video src="http://player.vimeo.com/external/85569724.sd.mp4?s=43df5df0d733011263687d20a47557e4"></video>
You can create that <video> element using JavaScript, as well.
A plain <div> element can not dispplay video without some element to aid it.
Is there a way to have embed youtube video and trigger to jump to manually positions programatically?
The user who is submitting a link to our video-gallery can also input some highlights (like 0:13, 5:25, 8:41) and it would be cool, if other users just click on the time-point and the video would jump to there.
format:
(youtubeURL)#t=(no. of mins.)m(no. of secs.)s
example:
#t=2m35s will move to 2:36 of the video.
When embedding, just use the format.
example:
Go to the solution
I have this webpage:
http://healthpad.net/dashboard/
It have 10 <video> elements on it.
For some reason, when I load the page on an iPad, it is not showing the video posters.
Try the following:
load the page on a desktop browser
load it on an iPad or iPad simulator, and you get a big black box with a play button
please tell me why this is happening?
Here's what I've already ruled out:
Image Content-Type header.
I've validated that the image content-type header is properly set.
In the example above, the Content-Type header properly image/jpeg.
Interference with the video.js library
VideoJs is used to show that nice play button on desktop browsers and to customise the controls. This library doesn't interfere with the native player however.
Just to make sure, I've created a test video page which doesn't have the video-js class, so the library doesn't pick up and process that video. In fact, the test page doesn't even include any JS library, it's just
<html><body>
<video
controls
height="400"
width="600"
poster="http://healthpad.net/media/CACHE/images/uploads/video_poster_1414/bd5fba5a68ddd0f4b3f61193f6908962.jpg"
src="http://healthpad.net/media/uploads/video_processed_720p_1414.mp4"
></video>
</body></html>
http://healthpad.net/rj_templates/test/zzz/
Usage of any video attributes that may not be supported on Mobile Safari
The test page above just has a plain video tag. I've tried removing every other attribute except for src and poster, it didn't help.
Most of the StackOverflow questions on the topic just say "Restart your iPad"
Here's where it gets weird:
If you google around on this, the answers on StackOverflow that have been accepted often say "Restart your iPad, that did it for me".
So I've tried doing the same thing, at first I just said that it doesn't work in my case.
Then, I tried this:
(all of the following on the iPad simulator)
Go to the site, video posters don't show
Go to the test page (http://healthpad.net/rj_templates/test/zzz/), video poster doesn't show.
Click home to exit Safari (or Cmd+Shift+H mac shortcut for the simulator)
Double-Click home button to get the task switcher outside of Safari, tap and hold on the safari icon until the kill button shows.
Kill Safari
Open safari (restarted). At this point, if you load the test page (the one with just one video), the poster will show.
Now go to the multi-video page: (http://healthpad.net/dashboard/). Video posters don't show.
Go back to the single-video test page, the video poster for that one no longer works either.
Repeat steps 3 to 8 to see the process of when video posters stop working.
So apparently, at some point, Mobile Safari decides it will no longer show any video posters.
Also, apparently, my site triggers this condition.
Clarifications:
When posters no longer work, it doesn't only occur on one domain, no video posters will be loaded for any other site, regardless whether or not it's on a totally different domain (e.g. the demo video from http://www.videojs.com/).
In order to reset this behaviour, from what I've seen, you have to kill and restart Safari. Just closing and reopening it doesn't reset this state.
Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? Is there a way to work around it?
EDIT: looks like this no longer works. Not shocking given how much iOS has changed in the last 7 years.
I got this working by using a PNG instead of a JPG.
Weird thing is, the JPG worked in iOS Safari locally (via a POW server on local wifi) but when pushed to staging the poster image didn't load. Both the local and staging code were referencing the same file on S3.
Changed the file format to PNG and it loads fine.
I see the question keeps getting upvoted once in a while, though there's no answer.
So here's what I ended up doing:
On iOS, instead of showing the video player (even with autoload=false), I will just show the poster and a play button, two standalone <img> tags.
When they get clicked, I create the video player from javascript and tell it to play. Works fine, users don't see much difference.
I fixed it by adding preload="none" to my code.
<video width="344" preload="none" height="217" poster="/themes/custom/xxxxxx">
In Safari settings [iOS7] Block Pop-Ups turned "OFF" seemed to cure this for me, hope this helps.
Well if someone is still stuck on this is how I managed to get it done in React.js but the algorithm itself should be useful in any framework:
First I detect whether the browser is safari or not using the following in a useEffect:
var isSafari = /^((?!chrome|android).)*safari/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
then I set it inside a state object.
If safari is true then instead of displaying the video i simply display an image with that poster as its source. Then I have an onClick handler on the image tag itself clicking on it will change the above state back to false and hence image component will stop showing and video will be shown instead. Now one more problem you would have to tackle here is that on image click the image will disappear and video will appear and you'll then have to click the video again for it to play. That's bad UX. so for that you can simply attach a ref to the video and inside the click handler for Image after you set the state simple do :
videoRef.current.play()
This will start playing the video as well.
I know this is a hacky solution so don't come at me but it was the only thing i could do to get it work.
I am trying to add custom controls to an embeded YouTube player. I am overlaying a html menu. However, when a user clicks on the full screen button within YouTube my html menu will no longer be available on the larger player.
There are two possible solutions I foresee.
First, if I could figure out the element that is generated for the fullscreen player then I could overlay controls on this.
Second, if I could grab the fullscreen click event I could use javascript to get the current available window demenisions an scale the video to the available realestate.
I found this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Using_fullscreen_mode?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=DOM%2FUsing_full-screen_mode
However, I am not sure if it would work in most browsers and second it looks like it is in the test phase.
The answers I am looking for are:
What is the element or how can I find the element that is generated for the fullscreen player?
Or
How can I capture the click event for fullscreen?
Do you want to capture the click anywhere on the screen or on a link in a menu?
If you want to capture the click on a link on a menu I think this plugin can be useful as an example:
http://www.seanmccambridge.com/tubular/
https://code.google.com/p/jquery-tubular/source/browse/trunk/js/jquery.tubular.1.0.js
So here's the challenge. Make a clickable popcorn link OVERLAYING the video. Simple enough on desktop, but iOS is proving to be a challenge. If the video element has the controls attribute iOS hijacks all clicks within the video window, making the link overlay un-clickable. However if the controls attribute is not present on the video element, the popcorn links are clickable and work well.
Problems is, now there are no video controls. And I need those. So I figured some hand written javascript based video controls should work out fine. No controls attribute on the video tag so popcorn overlays are clickable, plus working controls! My attempt with this is to use video.js.
So now I have video.js video controls and popcorn living in harmony on desktop. But on iPad the video.js part works, but the popcorn part doesn't anymore. I get the video.js controls, but no popcorn events fire. However there are NO ERRORS, and the script executes completely.
Does anyone know what is happening here? Why would video.js stop popcorn only on iOS? Is there a solution?
PROBLEM DEMO
VideoJS has to make changes to your web page to insert all its controls and get them positioned correctly, and that includes moving the video element around. Mobile Safari is notoriously sensitive and a little bit weird about this stuff. It looks like VideoJS is removing your original video element and replacing it with a new one, and this is happening after Popcorn has attached it self to the original.
Debugging minified Javascript on Mobile Safari is no picnic, so I can't tell exactly why VideoJS is doing this on the iPad and not other browsers. But using the console, it's possible to get a rough idea what's going on:
document.getElementsByTagName('video')[0] ===
window.Popcorn.instances[0].media
//false!
That means the video element that Popcorn is listening to is not the same one that you're seeing and playing in your web page. From this command...
window.Popcorn.instances[0].media.parentNode //null!
...you can see that the original tag exists in memory but is not attached to the DOM. So while the new video plays along, the original one is stuck paused at 0:00.
The solution is to set up your Popcorn instance after VideoJS is done doing its business. And then make sure you reference the video element properly, because now '#popacorn' references a <div>, and the new video element is called "popacorn_html5_api". That should cover you for iOS as well as desktop browsers.
I had the same problem in Firefox. Popcorn not working with videoJS.
I solved my problem like this:
jQuery(function(){
_V_('videoid').ready(function() { // videoJS ready ?
console.info('videoJS ready : player ID = '+$(this).attr('id'));
console.info('videoJS ready : videoObj ID = '+$('#videoid video').attr('id'));
var pop = Popcorn( "#"+$('#videoid video').attr('id') );
// etc...
});
});
Like said brianchirls, videoJS makes a div id = "videoid" containing a video id = "videoid_html5_api", so the object id="videoid" is no longer a video object.