mobile-videoplayer.js

Web video player for mobile browser, especially for ios safari which is disabled to autoplay mp4

Introduction

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

mobile-videoplayer.js is the videoplayer for mobile browser, especially for ios safari which is disabled to autoplay mp4, inspired by jani.

Note that tamagotchi_4u.mp4 which is used to show this product demo is CC BY, belonged to BandaiJP.

Demo

Usage

Create the container tag.

  • load-scene class element is displayed until the video is finished loading.
  • play-scene class element has one or multiple strip class elements. See Question below to understand why you must prepare multiple images to show long video.
  • replay-scene class element and done-scene class element are displayed after the video is finished playing.
  • replay-scene class element is going to be registered click event to replay the video.

Set data-*-url to send fine-grained impression trackings following VAST format as close as possible.

<div id="video_container">
  <div class="load-scene">
      <img src="http://placehold.it/320x180">
  </div>

  <div
      class="play-scene"
      data-frame-width=320
      data-frame-height=180
      data-fps=12
      data-did-start-url=""
      data-did-resume-url=""
      data-did-complete-url=""
      data-first-quartile-url=""
      data-midpoint-url=""
      data-third-quartile-url=""
      data-did-pause-url=""
      style="display: none;"
      >
      <div
          data-url="assets/tamagotchi_320x180_1.a9ac945e.jpg"
          class="strip"
          >
          <img>
      </div>
      <div
          data-url="assets/tamagotchi_320x180_2.d10717e2.jpg"
          class="strip"
          style="display: none;"
          >
          <img>
      </div>
      <div
          data-url="assets/tamagotchi_320x180_3.a6a03603.jpg"
          class="strip"
          style="display: none;"
          >
          <img>
      </div>
      <div
          data-url="assets/tamagotchi_320x180_4.0895f168.jpg"
          class="strip"
          style="display: none;"
          >
          <img>
      </div>
  </div>

  <div class="replay-scene" style="display: none;">
      <p>replay ?</p>
  </div>

  <div class="done-scene" style="display: none;">
      <img src="http://placehold.it/320x180">
  </div>
</div>

Insert the script.

Pass container element id as 1st arg and is_debug flag to console log as 2nd arg.

<script src="mvplayer.min.js"></script>
<script>
window.onload = function(){
    MVPlayer.Controller.run(document.getElementById("video_container"), true);
};
</script>

Support

Confirmed to work well in these browsers listed below.

IE6, IE7, IE8, Safari(7.1/8), Firefox(31), Chrome(39),
iOS Safari(iOS6, iOS7, iOS8), Android(2.2, 4.4, 5)

Also confirmed that time to complete loading and then start almost video is about 3~4 sec in mobile 3G network.

Namespace

mobile-videoplayer.js use only one global variable MVPlayer to avoid polluting other global namespace.

Install

Install grunt and bower commands.

sudo npm install -g grunt-cli
sudo npm install -g bower

Then install node module local dependencies.

npm install

And install bower components.

bower install

Run

grunt

Then access http://localhost:9000/ or http://localhost:9000/scroll.html.

Test

Run tests using only PhantomJS.

grunt

Run tests using FireFox, Chrome, Safari, PhantomJS and other (see Grunt.coffee).

grunt testem:run:long

Run tests to generate test coverage.

grunt testem:run:long
open coverage/lcov-report/index.html

Convert mp4 to jpgs

Use jani-strip_maker.

./bin/strip_maker from_movie_to_strips --input_file ./src/assets/tamagotchi_4u.mp4 --fps 12 --height 180 --width 320

Question

The reason why multiple images are needed is that mobile version of Safari automatically downsamples any jpg when it hits the 1024x1024 pixel limit.

  • According to Apple’s Guideline about Know iOS Resource Limits, the limit about 1024 pixel seems to me not to be applied to jpg.
  • But when I tried to use an over 1024 pixel jpg in mobile version of Safari, I could confirm to be rendered a terribly coarse one.

jani-strip_maker is supported to split into multiple jpgs automatically for avoiding this limit.

Licence

Licensed under the MIT license.

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