#YOUTUBE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER HOW TO#

Here’s how to allow the browser to preload just the video metadata and show the 1st frame as the poster:

We might thus receive a high data transfer bill from our hosting provider if this blog post gets a lot of views. In most of the above players we’ve used preload='none' to prevent the video from being loaded together with the web page because it might use considerable data even if the user will not play the video.

auto – the audio/video should start loading as soon as the page loads.

metadata – only the metadata is preloaded: dimensions, first frame, track list, duration, etc.

If the video is not played automatically it’s a good idea to show a video thumbnail and thus give viewers a glimpse of the content.įor the video to have a poster you simply need to add the poster attribute and the URL to the poster image: Ī video can be preloaded in multiple ways by adding the preload attribute. #t=10 => results in the time interval [10,end) Show a video poster or thumbnail before the video is started #t=,20 => results in the time interval [0,20) In this example, the video playback will start at second 15 and end at second 20: Using Media Fragments (the #t= anchor in the src) you can specify the time at which the video should start playback and end playback. Start or stop the video at a certain point or timestamp You can find more examples on how to control the default Chrome video player UI here.

#YOUTUBE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER DOWNLOAD#

In the example above the fullscreen and download buttons have will be turned off or hidden but only if the user is on Chrome. Some specific controls can be hidden separately by using the controlsList attribute (Chrome 58+ only), for example: If you don’t specify the attribute the controls won’t be shown. Showing or hiding the video player’s controlsĬontrols like play/pause, volume, full-screen toggle and the seek slider can easily be toggled using the controls attribute: If only one video format is available, it can be specified directly using the src attribute: The list of sources is tried from top to bottom. It is also recommended that you specify the MIME type using the optional type attribute. Multiple sources can be specified by using elements. To suit all browsers you can provide multiple video files as the source for one video player. Not all browsers support all video containers and codecs. Fitting portrait videos in landscape players using the object-fit CSS property.Accessing more functionality through JavaScript.Showing captions or subtitles during playback.Show a video poster or thumbnail before the video is started.Start or stop the video at a certain point or timestamp.Showing or hiding the video player’s controls.Specifying multiple sources for a video.

#YOUTUBE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER CODE#

In this blog post, we’ll take a deeper look at 10 of those advanced features and explain with code examples how you can use them on your website in your HTML video players. Tip: use a Set Text action to play the video and a Set Text action with no text to unload the video to stop it playing when the text box is closed.We’ve covered the basics of adding a video to your web page using the element and briefly listed the element’s more advanced features in an earlier blog post. Open it in an iPad and you will see HTML5 Video. If you open the HTML5 output in a flash enabled web browser, you will see the flash video in the HTML5 panorama.

Make sure the text box is the same size as the video window. Closing the video will return back to the panorama, a text box size of 200 x 160px worked ok in my tests.

#YOUTUBE HTML5 VIDEO PLAYER SKIN#

When making a skin for the iPhone or iPod Touch, make the text box/video player window small enough to fit the screen, it does not matter that it will be small as with these devices the panorama will hide and the video will fill the screen.

Change the text box size to match your video, in this example 480 x 390 and paste the above code in the text field.

Open the skin Editor and add a text box, you may want to give it an ID of Video Player.

The code should look similar to this (the video I am using is Outputting HTML5/CSS3 Panoramas Tutorial):

Set the window size, then copy the code.

Click the Share button under the video window.

Go to YouTube and open the video you want to embed.

Youtube html5 video player