maticz/okvideo

Fullscreen background videos for your webpages.

OKVideo

OKVideo is a jQuery plugin that allows for YouTube or Vimeo videos to be used as full-screen backgrounds on webpages. OKVideo aims to be customizable while making some basic decisions about how the plugin should control video. When using OKVideo, all videos will be served from Vimeo or YouTube based on a number of variables like browser, device, bandwidth, etc.

OKVideo uses the new YouTube IFrame API which does not require any Flash objects to be present on your website. This means that mobile devices will play video served by OKVideo. Content from Vimeo is served in a similar manner, although sometimes their videos will still be served in Flash.

Tested and working in Safari 5.1+, Chrome, Firefox 3.6+, IE 8+, Mobile Safari, Chrome for iOS.

Usage

After including jQuery and the OKVideo plugin, instantiate OKVideo like so:

$(function(){
  $.okvideo({ video: '[:id]' }) // [:id] refers to a YouTube or Vimeo ID
});

OKVideo conveniently will accept and parse full urls from YouTube or Vimeo:

$(function(){
  $.okvideo({ video: '[:url]' }) // [:url] refers to a YouTube or Vimeo URL
});

Want a YouTube playlist? I got u.

$(function(){
  $.okvideo({ playlist: {
                list: '[:id]', // a YT playlist id
                suggestedQuality: '[:quality]'
              }
           });
});

OKVideo accepts a number of options. The below will embed a high definition video from YouTube with the audio set to 50% and log something to the console once the video has completed:

$(function(){
  $.okvideo({
      source: '[:url]',
      volume: 50,
      hd: true,
      onFinished: function(){
          console.log('finished video!')
      }
  });
});

You can also simply pass an id or url if no other options are desired:

$(function(){
  $.okvideo('[:url]') // [:url] refers to a YouTube or Vimeo URL
});

YouTube API Access

OKVideo gives you access to all of the YouTube player events. You can listen for all of the available player states: unstarted, ended, playing, paused, buffering, and cued. To listen for them simply pass OKVideo a function to the corresponding option noted below.

Options

option	description	default	type
video	an id or url from vimeo or youtube	null	string
disablekeyControl	enable or disable key control (youtube videos only)	true	boolaen
captions	enable or disable captions (youtube videos only)	false	boolean
loop	loop the video	true	boolean
high def	control hd playback (youtube videos only)	false	boolean
volume	control the volume (from 0 to 100)	0	number
annotations	toggle annotations	true	boolean
onFinished	listen for the "finished" event	null	function
unstarted	listen for the "unstarted" event	null	function
onReady	listen for the "ready" event	null	function
onPlay	listen for the "play" event	null	function
onPause	listen for the "pause" event	null	function
buffering	listen for the "buffering" event	null	function
cued	listen for the "cued" event	null	function
Playlist
playlist.list	an id of a YouTube playlist	null	string
playlists.index	which video the playlist begins with	0	number
playlists.startSeconds	how many seconds into the first video to begin with	0	number
playlists.suggestedQuality	the resolution of the video	"default"	string (small, medium, large, hd720, hd1080, highres, default)

Tests

OKFocus tests with Jasmine. Once you've cloned the repo run bundle and then rake jasmine to test the source.