HTML5Video

Questions answered by this recipe
- How to show HTML5 Video?
- How to show OGG Video?
- How to show MP4 Video?
Description
This recipe makes it easy to add HTML5 Video.
It will first try to play ogg, then mp4. If the browser does not support HTML5 video it will display "Your browser does not support HTML5 video.".
Actual filenames should end with lowercase ".ogv" for ogg, ".mp4" for mp4.
(: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
- id - optional - required to set initial volume control
- volume - optional - sets initial volume control -requires unique 'id' to adjust - values from 0 to 1
Installing
Copy HTML5Video.phpΔ to your cookbook directory
In your config.php enter:
or in your farmconfig.php enter:
$FarmD
/cookbook/HTML5Video.php");
The default directory to contain poster images and videos is "\uploads\". To change the default directory set a variable in your config.php file like this:
$HTML5ImageDir = 'http://yourdomain.org/hot/images/';
$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.
Copyright 2007
- Version: 20200130 - abandon PHP 5 - eliminate webm video, adjust for PHP7
- Version: 20151004 - Fix error message
- Version: 20150815 - Remove hardcode path in poster variable + add php5.5 support
- Version: 1.1 - Change some text, remove extraneous line of code.
- Version: 1.0 - Initial release
See also
Contributors
Comments
See discussion at HTML5Video-Talk
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