HTML5Video

Summary: Show HTML5 Video

Version: 20200130

Prerequisites: none

Status: working

License: GPL2+

Version: 20151004

Maintainer:

GNUZoo

Users: +4 (View / Edit)

Downloads: HTML5Video.php Δ

Discussion: HTML5Video-Talk

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.

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
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.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");

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.

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

Contributors

GNUZoo

Comments

See discussion at HTML5Video-Talk

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