I've been trying to replicate this effect apple has on their website. I have been able to do the stop & start effectively on scroll but the reverse playback is an issue.
I've searched and old solutions on the website point to a reverse video which i've done but given that apple has done it for both ipad air and mac pro, I am sure there is a new solution.
Do let me know if you have been able to figure it out. I checked the website, they only use one video.
Thank you so much.
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Neat. So they have one big video file (named 'story.mp4') which contains all the transitions. Then have code that can ask the video to play from one point in the file to another point, rather than playing from start straight through to finish.
But you've figured out that much and you want to know how to play parts of the video in reverse? Perhaps this question and answer will help: Is it possible to play HTML5 video in reverse? According to that, it comes down to setting the media element's playbackRate to -1.
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Using froogaloop (the js api provided by vimeo) I was able to play two videos at the same time on desktop and android phone but this isn't working on ipad.
It's a video of someone commenting the first video so I also need the first video to be muted (also ok on desktop and android phone).
On ipad, it seems like the first video shortly enters the playing state and stops when the second starts, as if there were an hard-coded limitation on the player that prevent both videos from playing at the same time.
Ipad is also the only platform where I see the "undock" button, which could explain the hard limitation.
Is there a way to play 2 videos at the same time, one muted, the other at full volume ?
First, vimeo has relased its new api recently and froogalops won't be maintained anymore, yet still working. I' don't know wether this release brings any changes in respect of ios
Second, your question is not super clear to me, as it seem you manage to do what you wanted, except on ipad (what ios version and what about other ios devices), while your title and your bottom line is
Is there a way to play 2 videos at the same time, one muted, the other at full volume ?
and not ? Is there a way to play two vimeo video at the same time on ipad or ios ?
Third, vimeo provides the posibility to add autopause=0 in the url of your embeded video, this prevent the vimeo video curently playing to be paused when another one is started.
It works on desktop and android but haven't tried the behaviour on ipad yet as Ì don't have one in hand at the moment.
Finally, after some seach, it seems that this question may be asked regarding ios at large, and not solely ipad, and in this respect this post might be usefull for you
Not sure if it helps, as your post is 7 month old, but if you provide your code I may give a second try.
Cheers
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!
When looking at my video player app yesterday morning, I noticed some odd behavior on the AS3 Chromeless player.
When using the setSize function as documented in the API, the giant play button that overlays the video is now suddenly becoming very large, not even close to the dimensions specified. However, once the play button is clicked, the video player itself is fine. This is throwing off all of the positioning in my app, and looks terrible.
I assume something changed on the Chromeless Player, but I need to get this to work sooner rather than later. Is anyone else experiencing this issue / does anyone have a work around?
Thanks for the help!
Each time you set the size, force a redraw. Its gonna do that when you click it, and apparently, in your case, doesn't.
This is a known problem with the Google Data API for Youtube. People seem to be clamoring for a fix, although Google has not been very responsive.
So I'm trying to play music on a webpage, but whenever it plays for the first time, you have to go through a short but annoying process of enabling quicktime for the website.
Is there either:
Another way to play music (a different music player) that can still be invisible and plays immediately?
A way to force enable quicktime when they get to the site?
So yeah, please help me out!
What I did was I just embedded an invisible youtube player. Works decently.
I'm setting up a website which ultimately displays videos. The video files are all .mpg and requirements prevent me from converting these to another format such as flv. So far I have been playing around with Windows Media Player but have found that it doesn't play nice with non IE browsers. The problem which arises is that although the video will play, it doesn't shrink itself to fit in the WMP container and so only the top corner is visible. This problem goes away if I download the np-mswmp plugin for Firefox however it is a manual install and I'd rather not leave it to the user. Once the Firefox plugin is installed, Chrome also plays the files correctly but I doubt that the average user would ever think to do this.
Is there a better way to embed .mpg files into a web page, an alternative player which doesn't require file conversion? I have had a play with Quicktime but it only ever shows a Q with a question mark imposed over it, even when I associate Quicktime with .mpeg files. Any advice would be appreciated!
Thanks,
James
I'm sorry to say there isn't a good way to do cross-browser video without being able to force your users to install something. That is why every video site uses flash, since it's the nearest thing to a standard - but of course flash has some gaps in coverage, the most significant being iPhones.
Windows Media Player has only about 70% penetration and Internet Explorer somewhat less. By going this route you will end up with 1 in 3 users unable to view your videos.
Either bite the bullet and move to Flash as a video player or just give your users a download link. A download link is a very easy way to support almost every user, if you can do that.