PmWiki | Cookbook / HTML5Video

Summary: Show HTML5 Video

Version: 1.1

Prerequisites: none

Status: working

Maintainer:

GNUZoo

Users: +3 (View / Edit)

Downloads: HTML5Video.php Δ

Questions answered by this recipe

How to show HTML5 Video?
How to show OGG Video?
How to show MP4 Video?
How to show WebM Video?

Description

This recipe makes it easy to add HTML5 Video.

It will first try to play ogg, then mp4 then webm. If the browser does not support HTML5 video it will display "Your browser does not HTML5 video.".

Actual filenames should end with lowercase ".ogv" for ogg, ".mp4" for mp4, and ".webm" for webm.

Example:

(:html5video filename=gilligans2v1 poster=gilligan width=480 height=270:)

Parameters

filename - first part of file - so if the file was gilligans2v1.ogg it would be "gilligans2v1"
poster - optional - an image to be displayed before the video begins
width - optional - custom width
height - optional - custom height

Installing

Copy HTML5Video.php Δ to your cookbook directory

In your config.php enter:

include_once("cookbook/HTML5Video.php");

or in your farmconfig.php enter:

include_once("$FarmD/cookbook/HTML5Video.php");

This program sets the default directory to contain videos in "\uploads\".

To change the default directory set a variable in your config.php file like this:

   $HTML5VideoDir = 'http://yourdomain.org/hot/videos/';

Notes

Release notes

This program is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation http://www.fsf.org either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Please donate to the author at url: http://gnuzoo.org/GNUZooPayPal

Version: 1.1 - Change some text, remove extraneous line of code.
Version: 1.0 - Initial release

Contributors

GNUZoo

Comments

Where does the poster need to be and in what format? Nova Ok, i see it in the code that it has to be in the same folder and it has to be .jpg, but for me it doesn't really work. Nova Ah, sorry, it's good to know, that the poster appears only if none of the videoformats get loaded. Is that true? Nova

There is - i think - an error in the script in such way, that it provides a (broken) link to some external site. If you look at the code, the poster is specified as

http://gnuzoo.org/guitarstuff/uploads/'.$poster.'.jpg

I don't think this is right. IMHO it should have at least been

$HTML5VideoDir.$poster.'.jpg

Otherwise, this seems a good recipe. Nova

It's very good, but I'd like to find a way to automatically use the $FarmD/uploads folder. In the case my pmwiki installation is in a subfolder (such as "pmwiki" or "wiki"), the upload folder won't be found. For my use, I've added $HTML5VideoDir = '../../uploads/'; and it works (because I have$EnablePathInfo = 1;), but there is probably a better syntax which would work for every case. It would be nice also to be able to write the full name of the video (including the extension). Farvardin

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HTML5Video