jquery-ooyala

jQuery-Ooyala provides a dead-simple interface for creating and working with Ooyala's V3 Javascript Player. It is:

Easy to use

• Requires no javascript out of the box: all behaviour and initialization can be configured via data attributes on HTML elements
• Takes care of all tasks needed to embed content from Ooyala onto a page

Extensible

• Support for multiple players on pages
• Support for lazy loading of players on specified events
• Plethora of css hooks to use to style the player given its state

Versatile

• Robust javascript API for high and low-level interfaces to the Ooyala player
• Mechanisms for accessing the global OO object for a player, as well as the underlying Ooyala player itself
• Chainable, jquery-like interface for subscribing to player events
• Fine-grained control over the plugin's automatic initialization logic

Enterprise-Grade

• Built using jquery-boilerplate
• Full suite of jasmine unit tests
• 100% code coverage, verified by istanbul
• Heavily annotated source code, and a plethora of demos to get you up and running quickly!

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Table of Contents

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• Installation
• Basic Usage
  • Initializing the player
  • Lazy loading
  • Using the Flash-based player
  • Customizing player placement within an element
  • CSS Hooks
• Advanced Usage
  • Subscribing to player events
  • Using Additional Elements to Load / Seek Within Videos
  • Custom script tag / player params
  • Directly accessing the Ooyala global object and player
  • Controlling auto-initialization
  • Accessing the plugin constructor directly
• Plugin Javascript API
  • OoyalaWrapper
    • Public Properties
    • Methods
    • Ooyala Player method proxies.
• Full List of Options
• Running Demos
• FAQ/Troubleshotting
• License

Installation

You can install jquery-ooyala using either bower

$ bower install jquery-ooyala

or component

$ component install refinery29/jquery-ooyala

or npm

$ npm install jquery-ooyala

Basic Usage

Initializing the player

In your html, add an element with class "oo-player", as well as a script tag pointing to jquery and jquery-ooyala

<div class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="your_player_id"
     data-content-id="your_content_id"></div>
<!-- .... -->
<script src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- use dist/jquery.ooyala.min.js for a minified version -->
<script src="/vendor/jquery-ooyala/dist/jquery.ooyala.js"></script>

And that's all there is to it! jquery-ooyala will take care of all the plumbing around loading the Ooyala v3 player represented by the id specified in data-player-id, as well as create the Player with the video specified by data-content-id.

You can, of course, also use Javascript to initialize the plugin. Assuming you have the following html

<div id="your-ooyala-player-element"></div>
<!-- .... -->
<script src="/vendor/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
<!-- use dist/jquery.ooyala.min.js for a minified version -->
<script src="/vendor/jquery-ooyala/dist/jquery.ooyala.js"></script>

Then you can instantiate the plugin like so:

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala({
    playerId: "your_player_id",
    contentId: "your_content_id"
});

Note that in either case, playerId and contentId are required.

Lazy loading

Often times, especially on mobile, you'll want to wait until a user interacts with an element on your page before you load all of the assets needed for the ooyala player. You can easily achieve this functionality using jquery-ooyala by specifying an event it should listen for before loading the player.

<div class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="your_player_id"
     data-content-id="your_content_id"
     data-lazy-load-on="touchend"
    >Tap me to load a video!</div>

Now the ooyala player will not be loaded until a touchend event is triggered on that element.

You can achieve the same result using javascript:

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala({
    playerId: "your_player_id",
    contentId: "your_content_id",
    lazyLoadOn: "touchend"
});

Using the Flash-based player

By default, jquery-ooyala opts for loading Ooyala's HTML5-based video player, rather than its flash version. If you'd like to disabled this functionality and only use the HTML5 player as a fallback by using data-favor-html5="false" on an .oo-player element, or by specifying favorHtml5: false as an option to the plugin call in Javascript. Note that there are other "platforms" you can use for the player, which can be specified by a custom URI param to the player script tag. For more info on this, see the section on Custom script tag / player params below.

Customizing player placement within an element

jquery-ooyala allows you to control where exactly the player gets placed within its containing element via the data-player-placement attribute (html) / playerPlacement option (javascript). This option can have 3 possible values:

1. "append" - The player will be appended to the element
2. "prepend" - The player will be prepended to the element
3. function( $videoContainer ) - A function can be used here to provide complete control over exactly where the player gets placed. It will be passed a jquery object representing the element containing all of the Ooyala DOM. This value of this in this function will be set to the jquery object representing the element the plugin was called on.

Here's how you could specify player placement using HTML

<div class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="your_player_id"
     data-content-id="your_content_id"
     data-player-placement="prepend"
>
    <p>This text will appear below the ooyala player</p>
</div>

And here's how you could specify it within javascript using a custom placement function:

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala({
    playerId: "your_player_id",
    contentId: "your_content_id",
    playerPlacement: function( $videoContainer ) {
        this.find( ".some-inner-container" ).append( $videoContainer );
    }
});

CSS Hooks

jquery-ooyala provides the following css hooks for styling:

• oo-player is added to every element which the plugin is called on
• oo-player-loading is applied during initialization (before the player/content has loaded) as well as when different videos are being loaded
• oo-player-ready is applied when content has been loaded and is ready to be played
• oo-player-playing is applied when the player is current playing content
• oo-player-paused is applied when currently playing content is paused
• oo-player-error is applied if there is an error loading the player script, or if there is an error when loading content for a player

We use SMACCS-style naming conventions and don't apply any styling ourselves. Therefore you can apply universal styles using oo-player, and then apply more specific styles using the oo-player-* state specifiers.

Advanced Usage

Subscribing to player events

jquery-ooyala provides an interface to subscribe to Player events in the same way that you would subscribe to any other event on a jquery object. The format for subscribing to these events is "ooyala.event.<EVENT_KEY>", where <EVENT_KEY> corresponds to a property name on the OO.EVENTS object. All arguments sent by the player message bus will be passed onto the event handlers.

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala( { /* ... */ })
                                  .on( "ooyala.event.WILL_PLAY_ADS ooyala.event.WILL_PLAY_SINGLE_AD", showAdBanner )
                                  .on( "ooyala.event.WILL_RESUME_MAIN_VIDEO", hideAdBanner )
                                  .on( "ooyala.event.FULLSCREEN_CHANGED", function( evt, isFullscreen ) {
                                    console.debug( ( isFullscreen ? "Fullscreen mode on" : "Fullscreen mode off" ) );
                                  });

For more information on the events you can hook into, take a look at Ooyala's Player Message Bus Events

Using Additional Elements to Load / Seek Within Videos

A common use case with any video player is the ability to change the current video that is playing. This can be accomplished by using what we call "triggers". Triggers are elements that, when interacted with, will change the state of the player. A trigger looks something like this:

<div id="player"
     class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="abc"
     data-content-id="123"></div>
<button data-oo-player-trigger='{ "domId": "player", "contentId": "456" }'>Play different video</button>

The data-oo-player-trigger param lets jquery-ooyala know that when the button is clicked, then the player within <div id="player"/> should be load in the content represented by id "456". These triggers are registered when jquery-ooyala first initializes.

Triggers can also be used to seek within the same video. This is useful for longer videos, in which you may want something similar to "Chapters"

<div id="player"
     class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="abc"
     data-content-id="123"></div>
<button data-oo-player-trigger='{ "domId": "player", "contentId": "123", "seek": 0 }'>Chapter 1 (0:00)</button>
<button data-oo-player-trigger='{ "domId": "player", "contentId": "123", "seek": 300 }'>Chapter 2 (5:00)</button>

The properties that can be specified within this object are as follows:

• domId: (Required) The id of an element which jquery-ooyala was initialized on.
• contentId: (Required) The id of the content that should be loaded.
• seek: (Default: 0) If the contentId is the same as the current contentId for the content that's playing, this will cause the player to seek to the specified offset (in seconds) within that video. Note that this property will do nothing if the contentIds differ
• event: (Default: "click") String representing the event that will be listened to in order to active the trigger. Useful for mobile devices, or for more interactive video experiences where you want things to change on mouseovers, mousemoves, etc.

Note that this functionality can be emulated relatively easily using Javascript

var $el = $( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala( { /* ... */ }),
    ooyala = $el.data( "ooyala" );
 
$( "#btn-play-some-video" ).on( "click", function() {
    ooyala.loadContent( "content_id_of_some_video" );
});
 
$( "#btn-seek-some-video" ).on( "click", function() {
    if ( ooyala.settings.contentId === "content_id_of_some_video" ) {
        ooyala.seek( 60 );
    }
});

Custom script tag / player params

If you need to provide any query paramaters to the player script call, or need to provide any additional embedded parameters to the ooyala player, you can do so by using data-url-params and data-player-params, respectively.

<div class="oo-player"
     data-player-id="your_player_id"
     data-content-id="your_content_id"
     data-url-params='{ "platform": "html5-fallback" }'
     data-player-params='{ "autoplay": true, "initialTime": 30 }'></div>

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala({
    playerId: "your_player_id",
    contentId: "your_content_id",
    urlParams: { platform: "html5-fallback" },
    playerParams: { autoplay: true, initialTime: 30 }
});

Note that for url params, namespace will be ignored, as we control that internally. Additionally, onCreate is ignored in player params. See the next section for info on how to hook into onCreate.

Directly accessing the Ooyala global object and player

When the ooyala script has completely loaded and the player has been created, the element containing the ooyala plugin will trigger an "ooyala.ready" event on itself, and pass along both the instantiated player, as well as that player's global OO object. You can hook into this event to perform low-level interactions with the player and the object.

$( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).ooyala({ /* ... */ })
                                  .on( "ooyala.ready", function( evt, player, OO ) {
                                    // work with OO and player
                                  });

The plugin instance itself can be retrieved by calling .data( "ooyala" ) on the element. This will return an instance of OoyalaWrapper, which is what we use to encapsulate all of the functionality of the plugin.

var ooyala = $( "#your-ooyala-player-element" ).data( "ooyala" ), player, OO;
 
// If you feel you need to, you can access the actual ooyala player using the `_player` property
player = ooyala._player;
// Additionally, you can access the global object for the player using the `_ooNamespace` property
OO = window[ ooyala._ooNamespace ];
 
// Using the javascript API to play some content
ooyala.play();

See the plugin javascript API for more info

Controlling auto-initialization

When jquery-ooyala initially loads, it automagically checks for all elements of class oo-player and instantiates the plugin on all of them. It also wires up any trigger elements it finds. If you want to disable this functionality, add a data-auto-init="false" attribute to the script tag that loads the player. Note that within the code we simply check for script[data-auto-init], so that attribute can be attached to any script tag, such as a built vendor.js file.

<!-- vendor.js contains jquery-ooyala bundled with it -->
<script data-auto-init="false" src="/build/vendor.js"></script>

You may also want to manually trigger this event, such as in a single-page application where elements are dynamically generated. You can do this by triggering a "jquery.ooyala.initialize" on document, which jquery-ooyala will listen to and perform that initialization logic when it's triggered.

$( document ).on( "dataVideosResponseReceived", function( evt, videos ) {
    var html = videosTemplateFunction( videos );
    $( "#view-container" ).append( html );
    $( document ).trigger( "jquery.ooyala.initialize" );
});

Accessing the plugin constructor directly

You can access the OoyalaWrapper constructor function by invoking $.data( document.body, "_jquery.ooyala" ). Note however, that in most cases there are better ways to achieve what you are trying to do than this way. However, if you'd rather use a different pattern in your code than a traditional jquery plugin pattern, this will give you that flexibility.

Plugin Javascript API

For those who need to get closer to the metal, the plugin provides a completely javascript API that is used under the hood to create/manipulate the player.

OoyalaWrapper

This is the constructor that is used to instantiate the plugin on each element it's called on.

var ooyala = $( "#some-player" ).data( "ooyala" ); // OoyalaWrapper instance

Public Properties

• el/$el: The element / jquery Object containing the element (respectively) that the plugin was called on.
• settings: An object representing the options the plugin was instantiated with, merged with its defaults.

Methods

• init( opts ): Called on instantiation to initialize the player. Takes an object opts containing plugin options (outlined below)
• getPlayer(): Makes a call for the ooyala player specified in options.playerId. Returns a promise that is fulfilled when the player script loads and is executed
• loadContent( contentId ): Switches out the current content in the player for the one specified by contentId

Ooyala Player method proxies.

OoyalaWrapper proxies the ooyala player's play(), pause(), seek(), and skipAd() functions. See the ooyala docs for information on how to use those methods.

Full List of Options

name	type	default	description
playerId / data-player-id	string	undefined	The id of the player to load
contentId / data-content-id	string	undefined	The id of the content for the player to load
favorHtml5 / data-favor-html5	boolean	true	When set to true, this will append ?platform=html5-priority to the ooyala script tag
lazyLoadOn / data-lazy-load-on	string	undefined	When specified, the plugin will wait to load the player until the specified event is dispatched on the element. Note that this accepts any valid string that $.fn.on accepts, so you can specify strings such as "click keyup"
playerParams / data-player-params	Object	{}	Options object that will be passed to OO.Player.create() as the last argument. Note that onCreate will be ignored. For more info, see Ooyala's Player Embedded Parameters Documentation
playerPlacement / data-player-placement	string/Function	"append"	Specifies how the player should be placed within its containing element. Can be either "prepend" or "append", or a custom function that can be used to position the player. See the documentation above for more info
urlParams / data-url-params	Object.<string, string>	{}	Object representing url params to be sent along with the player script tag url

Running Demos

1. cd into the plugin directory and run a static file server (such as Python's SimpleHTTPServer)

   $ cd /path/to/jquery-ooyala
   $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer

2. Navigate to localhost:8000/demo/DEMO_FILE_NAME.html where you should see the demo. Note that we load bootstrap and jquery from a CDN on these pages, so you'll need a working internet connection.

FAQ/Troubleshotting

I'm not seeing anything when I use the plugin on an empty element

Ensure that you set at least a min-height and (if you're not using a block element) a min-width on the element you're placing the plugin into. Ooyala sets styles on their html5 player by to width:100%;height:100% so if your element has no width/height, it won't show. You can also use the .oo-player css hook to apply global styles to all ooyala players on your page.

I'm trying to specify a certain namespace using urlParams, but I'm not seeing the Ooyala object in that namespace

jquery-ooyala does not honor the url param if passed in. This is the only way we can reliably support having multiple players on one page. If you really need to assign a global OO object for a player to a specific window property, you can accomplish this by using the "ooyala.ready" event:

$( "#element" ).ooyala({ /* ... */ })
               .on( "ooyala.ready", function( evt, player, OO ) {
                 window.MY_OO_NAMESPACE = OO;
               });

If you're experiencing other problems or have found a bug, please let us know by creating an issue

License

MIT License © Refinery29, Inc. 2014