I'm looking to build a microsite that has a fullscreen 360 video. I've been doing some research but can't seem to find the answer. Is it possible to have a full screen 360 video using JWPlayer, Bitmovin or another HTML5 player with static navigation elements on top if it? I think it would be feasible by changing the z index of the top element but haven't been able to verify this. Thank you.
Bitmovin Player does support this use case either through the Player API (your own controls that control the player through JavaScript) or by modifying the player Skin (available in Bitmovin-Player v7).
So let's say you want to overlay a Play button over the video you would just define a element that then calls .play() on the player instance.
$('.play-button').click(function () {
player.play();
});
The button can then easily be skinned and placed above the player with CSS.
Although changing the viewport is not supported through the API or the Controls. These get handled by touch-controls on the Video element (or the device gyro).
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I have video that will be divided into 4 videos.
First the player will stream a lower resolution of the original video, then the user can zoom into the video to see more details, I need the player to stream one of the 4 videos - that's higher in resolution- based on where the user zoomed in.
How can I make that using VideoJS or any other video player ?
After searching, this is the answer ...
For zooming into the video, you can follow this tutorial: Zooming and rotating for video in HTML5 and CSS3
For switch streaming of videos in the same player, you can make that by changing the source on html5 video tag and make some calculations to know where the user zoomed in and hence change the source video.
As there is no response yet let me analyse the problem. This is by no means meant as a full answer, but other people will probably be able to answer parts of the problem:
First the player will stream a lower resolution of the original video,
This means you will need to create/use a video stream. There are plenty of plugins you can use for videostreaming, and depends on what you want. You can consider writing it yourself using for example C#'s System.IO objects and transforming the video in bytes(And putting it back together) The resolution would be easiest reached by just having a seperate video file for this step of the proces. (a lower resolution one used for streaming only)
then the user can zoom into the video to see more details, I need the player to stream one of the 4 videos - that's higher in resolution- based on where the user zoomed in.
So you need to trigger a zoom effect. This means you would need to detect zoom. This would be possible with Javascript in a webbrowser, if you want a browser based application. When that zoom is triggered you can retrieve what position the mouse is on the screen/in the div or on some sort of overlay. Depending on this position you could show another stream.
How can I make that using VideoJS or any other video player ?
Basically these steps above is how i would start looking into this specific case. Considering your VideoJS as a suggestion i assume this is browser based. This would probably mean using Javascript libraries, maybe combined with a server side language.
Thats as far as i can go. Maybe someone can pick up specific parts of the thing i wrote and help you a step further.
Have a nice day!
I want to use the Charmless youtube player in my application and I want to remove youtube logo from the Player. How can i achieve this thing? My application is developed using AS3.
Simply add ?modestbranding=1 to the end of your URL.
See more here.
modestbranding (supported players: AS3, HTML5)
This parameter lets you use a YouTube player that does not show a YouTube logo.
Set the parameter value to 1 to prevent the YouTube logo from displaying in the control bar.
Note that a small YouTube text label will still display in the upper-right corner of a paused
video when the user's mouse pointer hovers over the player.
try this API player code.
http://www.youtube.com/apiplayer?version=3&modestbranding=1&showinfo=1
Chromeless player, the modestbranding has no effect unless "showinfo=1" is must for API player.
I tried to remove youtube logo by many ways. But I didn't get success to remove it from the youtube player.
Finally I check the youtube player functionality and behavior. When video is attached to the player then it will be displayed in center. if player container height is bigger then video height so both (top and bottom) side Black strip will be appeared. Just we have to hide the Black Strip from the user display area using masking concept. (In Flash we can apply the mask to container and same thing will be done using the DOM model in Javascript.)
In directly it will be removed as per end user perspective not actually. so Indirect way youtube logo is removed from the player.
you can try GKPlugin this plugin using JWPlayer 5.x at:
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B0OhZLpuvlSRTDZLMXowQWNMZTA#list
I need to develop a custom FLV video player with some features like Youtube's player: a "double" progress bar with loading and playing information, and the ability to click it to navigate the video.
Which components should I use to accomplish this?
Maybe 2 progress bars on top of each other? If so, then how can I click on it to navigate to a certain part of the video?
Thanks in advance!
I want to create a html5 page with video and an image overlay - meaning some image that is showing over the video. This overlay will in time also be text in some cases. Is there any good way to achieve this?
What I've been trying this far is to use a <video> tag to hold the video, and draw the image into a canvas, which I place on top of the video. To show it I need to move the video back setting z-index to -1, but then the video controls won't work. Maybe there's a solution to make the controls work again, but I'm not sure if I'm on the right path here.. I am assuming there is a recommended solution to this. Maybe using a canvas which I fill both video and overlay into. Or something completely different?
Note: I edited the question as it originally pointed in the wrong direction regarding what was important here. I'd love to have a solution which makes this work seamlessly in fullscreen and everything, but the focus is: What is the appropriate way to place items on top of video - in html5?
Achieving what you want and have it supported in out-of-the-box fullscreen is problematic. Fullscreen support in html5 video is only optional and in any way not accesible thorugh the API (See discussion here).
Even if you used the built in fullscreen there is no way you could inject content above it unless you are willing to change the video file itself on the server in runtime.
what you can do however (And what I did in a similar case) is to implement your own video controls, run the video tag without the built in controls, and have fun with overlaying as many layers as you want on top of your now out of focus video.
As for fullscreen, you can implement some sort of custom background fullscreen similar to what's been done here
edit: The problem you're having by placing a canvas over the video is blocking the built in html video controls. My suggestion is to implement your own video controls (play, pause, volume, seeker, etc.) using html and javascript calling the video API. You can probably even make it prettier then the ugly built in controls.
Your controls can be contained in a layer above the overlaid canvas, and thus the video will be shown, above it the overlay and above it your control set.
You can read a little about implementing your own controls here or here
And anyway this can easily be much better than this.
Is there a way to access/listen to the previous/next buttons in the iOS HTML5 video player? Ideally I would listen to some sort of a prev and next event and swap out the videos accordingly without the user having to close the video and click my prev/next buttons.
(source: iphonefaq.org)
I am currently using jwplayer to generate the html5 video and listening to their playlist next/prev listeners don't seem to do the trick. I can always find and attach listeners to the actual <video> tag pretty easily though.
If you attach listeners to the video tag itself then when the user hits next and previous then the listeners in the code will put up on those buttons. I am doing something similar with youTube videos. If you hit next it goes to the end of the youtube video and fires a video complete event tag and then I load the next video when that is called, so that the video will one loop without the next button and two the users can hit the buttons. I have not found a way to monitor the buttons in the player on the iphone side, but if I find it I will post that as well since it is important to know both angels if possible.
Funny thing I think I am looking to try and do the same exact thing. I know how to transition the videos to the next without having to leave the fullscreen mode because of using youTube api in the js but I am not able to observe the quicktime player itself and need to for another feature that I would like to work on.
That's the native iOS player which is a thin version of Quicktime. You'll know if it's an HTML5 player when it doesn't transition from the Quicktime player and your page in Safari. How is your movie being embedded?
I recently had a similar problem and was unable to find a solution using the HTML player. I ended up implementing the video player using MPVideoPlayer Framework and launching it from my web view with a custom URL scheme (AppName:Commnad:Asset). I was then able to use the delegate methods to monitor user interactions. If you would like to see basic implementation, let me know and I can add some code.