asyncy-player v0.0.1

Plyr

A simple, lightweight, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player that supports modern browsers.

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Features

• Accessible - full support for VTT captions and screen readers
• Customisable - make the player look how you want with the markup you want
• Good HTML - uses the right elements. <input type="range"> for volume and <progress> for progress and well, <button>s for buttons. There's no <span> or <a href="#"> button hacks
• Responsive - works with any screen size
• HTML Video & Audio - support for both formats
• Embedded Video - support for YouTube and Vimeo video playback
• Monetization - make money from your videos
• Streaming - support for hls.js, Shaka and dash.js streaming playback
• API - toggle playback, volume, seeking, and more through a standardized API
• Events - no messing around with Vimeo and YouTube APIs, all events are standardized across formats
• Fullscreen - supports native fullscreen with fallback to "full window" modes
• Shortcuts - supports keyboard shortcuts
• Picture-in-Picture - supports Safari's picture-in-picture mode
• Playsinline - supports the playsinline attribute
• Speed controls - adjust speed on the fly
• Multiple captions - support for multiple caption tracks
• i18n support - support for internationalization of controls
• No dependencies - written in "vanilla" ES6 JavaScript, no jQuery required
• SASS - to include in your build processes

Oh and yes, it works with Bootstrap.

Changelog

Check out the changelog to see what's new with Plyr.

Plugins & Components

Some awesome folks have made plugins for CMSs and Components for JavaScript frameworks:

Quick setup

Here's a quick run through on getting up and running. There's also a demo on Codepen. You can grab all of the source with NPM using npm install plyr.

Try Plyr online

You can try Plyr in Codepen using our minimal templates: HTML5 video, HTML5 audio, YouTube, Vimeo. For Streaming we also have example integrations with: Dash.js, Hls.js and Shaka Player

HTML

Plyr extends upon the standard HTML5 media element markup so that's all you need for those types.

HTML5 Video

<video poster="/path/to/poster.jpg" id="player" playsinline controls>
    <source src="/path/to/video.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    <source src="/path/to/video.webm" type="video/webm">

    <!-- Captions are optional -->
    <track kind="captions" label="English captions" src="/path/to/captions.vtt" srclang="en" default>
</video>

HTML5 Audio

<audio id="player" controls>
    <source src="/path/to/audio.mp3" type="audio/mp3">
    <source src="/path/to/audio.ogg" type="audio/ogg">
</audio>

For YouTube and Vimeo players, Plyr uses progressive enhancement to enhance the default <iframe> embeds. Below are some examples. The plyr__video-embed classname will make the embed responsive. You can add the autoplay, loop, hl (YouTube only) and playsinline (YouTube only) query parameters to the URL and they will be set as config options automatically. For YouTube, the origin should be updated to reflect the domain you're hosting the embed on, or you can opt to omit it.

YouTube embed

We recommend progressive enhancement with the embedded players. You can elect to use an <iframe> as the source element (which Plyr will progressively enhance) or a bog standard <div> with two essential data attributes - data-plyr-provider and data-plyr-embed-id.

<div class="plyr__video-embed" id="player">
    <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bTqVqk7FSmY?origin=https://plyr.io&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;playsinline=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1" allowfullscreen allowtransparency allow="autoplay"></iframe>
</div>

Note: The plyr__video-embed classname will make the player a responsive 16:9 (most common) iframe embed. When plyr itself kicks in, your custom ratio config option will be used.

Or the <div> non progressively enhanced method:

<div id="player" data-plyr-provider="youtube" data-plyr-embed-id="bTqVqk7FSmY"></div>

Note: The data-plyr-embed-id can either be the video ID or URL for the media.

Vimeo embed

Much the same as YouTube above.

<div class="plyr__video-embed" id="player">
    <iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/76979871?loop=false&amp;byline=false&amp;portrait=false&amp;title=false&amp;speed=true&amp;transparent=0&amp;gesture=media" allowfullscreen allowtransparency allow="autoplay"></iframe>
</div>

Or the <div> non progressively enhanced method:

<div id="player" data-plyr-provider="vimeo" data-plyr-embed-id="76979871"></div>

JavaScript

Include the plyr.js script before the closing </body> tag and then in your JS create a new instance of Plyr as below.

<script src="path/to/plyr.js"></script>
<script>const player = new Plyr('#player');</script>

See initialising for more information on advanced setups.

You can use our CDN (provided by Fastly) for the JavaScript. There's 2 versions; one with and one without polyfills. My recommendation would be to manage polyfills seperately as part of your application but to make life easier you can use the polyfilled build.

<script src="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.4.3/plyr.js"></script>

...or...

<script src="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.4.3/plyr.polyfilled.js"></script>

CSS

Include the plyr.css stylsheet into your <head>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/plyr.css">

If you want to use our CDN (provided by Fastly) for the default CSS, you can use the following:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.4.3/plyr.css">

SVG Sprite

The SVG sprite is loaded automatically from our CDN (provided by Fastly). To change this, see the options below. For reference, the CDN hosted SVG sprite can be found at https://cdn.plyr.io/3.4.3/plyr.svg.

Ads

Plyr has partnered up with vi.ai to offer monetization options for your videos. Getting setup is easy:

• Sign up for a vi.ai account
• Grab your publisher ID from the code snippet
• Enable ads in the config options and enter your publisher ID

Any questions regarding the ads can be sent straight to vi.ai and any issues with rendering raised through GitHub issues.

Advanced

SASS

You can use bundle.scss file included in /src as part of your build and change variables to suit your design. The SASS require you to use the autoprefixer plugin (you be should already!) as all declarations use the W3C definitions.

The HTML markup uses the BEM methodology with plyr as the block, e.g. .plyr__controls. You can change the class hooks in the options to match any custom CSS you write. Check out the JavaScript source for more on this.

SVG

The icons used in the Plyr controls are loaded in an SVG sprite. The sprite is automatically loaded from our CDN by default. If you already have an icon build system in place, you can include the source plyr icons (see /src/sprite for source icons).

Using the iconUrl option

You can however specify your own iconUrl option and Plyr will determine if the url is absolute and requires loading by AJAX/CORS due to current browser limitations or if it's a relative path, just use the path directly.

If you're using the <base> tag on your site, you may need to use something like this: svgfixer.js

More info on SVG sprites here: http://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts/ and the AJAX technique here: http://css-tricks.com/ajaxing-svg-sprite/

Cross Origin (CORS)

You'll notice the crossorigin attribute on the example <video> elements. This is because the TextTrack captions are loaded from another domain. If your TextTrack captions are also hosted on another domain, you will need to add this attribute and make sure your host has the correct headers setup. For more info on CORS checkout the MDN docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Access_control_CORS

Captions

WebVTT captions are supported. To add a caption track, check the HTML example above and look for the <track> element. Be sure to validate your caption files.

JavaScript

Initialising

You can specify a range of arguments for the constructor to use:

• A CSS string selector that's compatible with querySelector
• A HTMLElement
• A NodeList
• A jQuery object

Note: If a NodeList, Array, or jQuery object are passed, the first element will be used for setup. To setup multiple players, see setting up multiple players below.

Here's some examples

Passing a string selector:

const player = new Plyr('#player');

Passing a HTMLElement:

const player = new Plyr(document.getElementById('player'));

Passing a NodeList (see note below):

const player = new Plyr(document.querySelectorAll('.js-player'));

The NodeList, HTMLElement or string selector can be the target <video>, <audio>, or <div> wrapper for embeds.

Setting up multiple players

You have two choices here. You can either use a simple array loop to map the constructor:

const players = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('.js-player')).map(p => new Plyr(p));

...or use a static method where you can pass a string selector, a NodeList or an Array of elements:

const players = Plyr.setup('.js-player');

Both options will also return an array of instances in the order of they were in the DOM for the string selector or the source NodeList or Array.

Passing options

The second argument for the constructor is the options object:

const player = new Plyr('#player', {
    /* options */
});

In all cases, the constructor will return a Plyr object that can be used with the API methods. See the API section for more info.

Options

Options can be passed as an object to the constructor as above or as JSON in data-plyr-config attribute on each of your target elements:

<video src="/path/to/video.mp4" id="player" controls data-plyr-config='{ "title": "This is an example video", "volume": 1, "debug": true }'></video>

Note the single quotes encapsulating the JSON and double quotes on the object keys. Only string values need double quotes.

1. Vimeo only

API

There are methods, setters and getters on a Plyr object.

Object

The easiest way to access the Plyr object is to set the return value from your call to the constructor to a variable. For example:

const player = new Plyr('#player', {
    /* options */
});

You can also access the object through any events:

element.addEventListener('ready', event => {
    const player = event.detail.plyr;
});

Methods

Example method use:

player.play(); // Start playback
player.fullscreen.enter(); // Enter fullscreen

1. For HTML5 players, play() will return a Promise in some browsers - WebKit and Mozilla according to MDN at time of writing.

Getters and Setters

Example setters:

player.volume = 0.5; // Sets volume at 50%
player.currentTime = 10; // Seeks to 10 seconds

Example getters:

player.volume; // 0.5;
player.currentTime; // 10
player.fullscreen.active; // false;

1. YouTube only. HTML5 will follow.
2. HTML5 only

The .source setter

This allows changing the player source and type on the fly.

Video example:

player.source = {
    type: 'video',
    title: 'Example title',
    sources: [
        {
            src: '/path/to/movie.mp4',
            type: 'video/mp4',
            size: 720,
        },
        {
            src: '/path/to/movie.webm',
            type: 'video/webm',
            size: 1080,
        },
    ],
    poster: '/path/to/poster.jpg',
    tracks: [
        {
            kind: 'captions',
            label: 'English',
            srclang: 'en',
            src: '/path/to/captions.en.vtt',
            default: true,
        },
        {
            kind: 'captions',
            label: 'French',
            srclang: 'fr',
            src: '/path/to/captions.fr.vtt',
        },
    ],
};

Audio example:

player.source = {
    type: 'audio',
    title: 'Example title',
    sources: [
        {
            src: '/path/to/audio.mp3',
            type: 'audio/mp3',
        },
        {
            src: '/path/to/audio.ogg',
            type: 'audio/ogg',
        },
    ],
};

YouTube example:

player.source = {
    type: 'video',
    sources: [
        {
            src: 'bTqVqk7FSmY',
            provider: 'youtube',
        },
    ],
};

Note: src can be the video ID or URL

Vimeo example

player.source = {
    type: 'video',
    sources: [
        {
            src: '143418951',
            provider: 'vimeo',
        },
    ],
};

Note: src property for YouTube and Vimeo can either be the video ID or the whole URL.

1. HTML5 only

Events

You can listen for events on the target element you setup Plyr on (see example under the table). Some events only apply to HTML5 audio and video. Using your reference to the instance, you can use the on() API method or addEventListener(). Access to the API can be obtained this way through the event.detail.plyr property. Here's an example:

player.on('ready', event => {
    const instance = event.detail.plyr;
});

Standard Media Events

HTML5 only

YouTube only

Note: These events also bubble up the DOM. The event target will be the container element.

Some event details borrowed from MDN.

Embeds

YouTube and Vimeo are currently supported and function much like a HTML5 video. Similar events and API methods are available for all types. However if you wish to access the API's directly. You can do so via the embed property of your player object - e.g. player.embed. You can then use the relevant methods from the third party APIs. More info on the respective API's here:

• YouTube iframe API Reference
• Vimeo player.js Reference

Note: Not all API methods may work 100%. Your mileage may vary. It's better to use the Plyr API where possible.

Shortcuts

By default, a player will bind the following keyboard shortcuts when it has focus. If you have the global option to true and there's only one player in the document then the shortcuts will work when any element has focus, apart from an element that requires input.

Fullscreen

Fullscreen in Plyr is supported by all browsers that currently support it.

Browser support

Plyr supports the last 2 versions of most modern browsers.

1. Mobile Safari on the iPhone forces the native player for <video> unless the playsinline attribute is present. Volume controls are also disabled as they are handled device wide.
2. Native player used (no support for <progress> or <input type="range">) but the A