Vide

Easy as hell jQuery plugin for video backgrounds.

Notes

• All modern desktop browsers are supported.
• IE9+
• iOS plays video from a browser only in the native player. So video for iOS is disabled, only fullscreen poster will be used.
• Some android devices play video, some not — go figure. So video for android is disabled, only fullscreen poster will be used.

Instructions

Download it from GitHub or via Bower: bower install vide

Include plugin: <script src="js/jquery.vide.min.js"></script>

Prepare your video in several formats like '.webm', '.mp4' for cross browser compatibility, also add a poster with .jpg, .png or .gif extension:

path/
├── to/
│   ├── video.mp4
│   ├── video.ogv
│   ├── video.webm
│   └── video.jpg

Add data-vide-bg attribute with a path to the video and poster without extension, video and poster must have the same name. Add data-vide-options to pass vide options, if you need it. By default video is muted, looped and starts automatically.

<div style="width: 1000px; height: 500px;"
  data-vide-bg="path/to/video" data-vide-options="loop: false, muted: false, position: 0% 0%">
</div>

Also you can set extended path:

<div style="width: 1000px; height: 500px;"
  data-vide-bg="mp4: path/to/video1, webm: path/to/video2, ogv: path/to/video3, poster: path/to/poster"
  data-vide-options="posterType: jpg, loop: false, muted: false, position: 0% 0%">
</div>

In some situations it can be helpful to initialize it with JS because Vide doesn't have mutation observers:

$('#myBlock').vide('path/to/video');
$('#myBlock').vide('path/to/video', {
...options...
});
$('#myBlock').vide({
  mp4: path/to/video1,
  webm: path/to/video2,
  ogv: path/to/video3,
  poster: path/to/poster
}, {
...options...
});
$('#myBlock').vide('extended path as a string', 'options as a string');

Easy as hell.

Options

Below is a complete list of options and matching default values:

{
  volume: 1,
  playbackRate: 1,
  muted: true,
  loop: true,
  autoplay: true,
  position: '50% 50%', // Similar to the CSS `background-position` property.
  posterType: 'detect', // Poster image type. "detect" — auto-detection; "none" — no poster; "jpg", "png", "gif",... - extensions.
  resizing: true, // Auto-resizing, read: https://github.com/VodkaBears/Vide#resizing
  bgColor: 'transparent', // Allow custom background-color for Vide div,
  className: '' // Add custom CSS class to Vide div
}

Methods

Below is a complete list of methods:

// Get instance of the plugin
var instance = $('#yourElement').data('vide');
 
// Get video element of the background. Do what you want.
instance.getVideoObject();
 
// Resize video background.
// It calls automatically, if window resize (or element, if you will use something like https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-resize).
instance.resize();
 
// Destroy plugin instance
instance.destroy();

Resizing

The Vide plugin resizes if the window resizes. If you will use something like https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-resize, it will resize automatically when the container resizes. Or simply use resize() method whenever you need.

Set the resizing option to false to disable auto-resizing.

Encoding video

http://diveintohtml5.info/video.html#miro

Meteor

Install

meteor add vodkabears:vide

Usage

Because of how meteor renders templates reactively you will need to initialize manually for the templates you want to use vide in.

Template.templateName.onRendered(function() {
  this.$('#elementName').vide('fileNameWithoutExtension');
});

Meteor integration by zimme.

Ruby Gem

Vider by Islam Wazery.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Ilya Makarov

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