jquery-video

Unifies the iframe APIs of Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion. Build as responsive jQuery UI widget.

Features

• Play, Pause and Stop command
• for Youtube, Vimeo and Dailymotion Player
• supports >=IE8, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera
• Responsive with CSS inspired by http://alistapart.com/article/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video

Demo

Demo can be found here: http://jquery-video.dachcom.ch/demo/

You can also checkout the project and open the index.html in the demo folder (use a webserver).

Dependencies

• jQuery: http://jquery.com/
• jQuery UI Widget: http://jqueryui.com/
• Vimeo API (Froogaloop2): https://github.com/vimeo/player-api/tree/master/javascript
• Youtube API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference
• Dailymotion API: http://www.dailymotion.com/doc/api/player.html
• Jasmine (Testing): http://pivotal.github.io/jasmine/

Installation

<!-- 1. Place containers with data attributes for configuration -->
<div class="container">
    <div class="video" data-type="vimeo" data-code="29950141" data-width="500" data-height="280"></div>
    <div class="video" data-type="youtube" data-code="ubKinQvpc6w" data-responsive="false" data-width="960" data-height="720"></div>
    <div class="video" data-type="dailymotion" data-code="x14b8od" data-width="500" data-height="280"></div>
</div>

<!-- 2. Include libraries -->
<script src="../lib/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../lib/jquery.ui.widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../lib/froogaloop.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<!-- 3. Include widget -->
<script src="../src/jquery.dcd.video.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<!-- 4. Bind widget to containers -->
<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function () {
        $('.video').video();
    });
</script>

Options

• type: API used [Required:(youtube|vimeo|dailymotion)]
• code: the video code [Required]
• width: the width of the video [Required:Integer]
• height: the height of the video [Required:Integer]
• responsive: should the video be included responsively [Optional:(true|false)]

Methods

• play: play video
• pause: pause video
• stop: stop video
• playing: returns status of video

Examples

     $(':dcd-videoYoutube').video('play'); // plays all youtube videos
     $('[data-type="youtube"]').video('play'); // plays also all youtube videos
     $('.video').video('pause'); // pauses all videos with class video
     $('[data-code="29950141"]').video('play'); // plays video with code 29950141
     $('.video').video('stop'); // stops all videos with class video
     $('[data-code="29950141"]').video('playing'); // returns true when video is playing, false if video is paused

Wishlist

• find better way to include and initialize youtube api
• find better way for video factory and inheritance
• include full test suite
• make 'responsive' class configurable
• implement more API commands
• implement more APIs (Dailymotion, MyVideo, ...)

Known Issues

• Youtube API is throwing exceptions
• You can't have more than one Vimeo video with the same code on one page