km-plyr v1.0.0

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

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Features

• 📼 HTML Video & Audio, YouTube & Vimeo - support for the major formats
• 💪 Accessible - full support for VTT captions and screen readers
• 🔧 Customizable - make the player look how you want with the markup you want
• 😎 Clean 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
• 💵 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 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
• 👌 Preview thumbnails - support for displaying preview thumbnails
• 🤟 No frameworks - written in "vanilla" ES6 JavaScript, no jQuery required
• 💁‍♀️ Sass - to include in your build processes

Demos

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

Quick setup

HTML

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

HTML5 Video

<video id="player" playsinline controls data-poster="/path/to/poster.jpg">
  <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>

Note: The poster image should be specified using data-poster. This is to prevent it being downloaded twice. If you're sure the image will be cached, you can still use the poster attribute for true progressive enhancement.

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

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

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

You can use Plyr as an ES6 module as follows:

import Plyr from 'plyr';

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

Alternatively you can 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 Cloudflare) for the JavaScript. There's 2 versions; one with and one without polyfills. My recommendation would be to manage polyfills separately as part of your application but to make life easier you can use the polyfilled build.

<script src="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.7.8/plyr.js"></script>

...or...

<script src="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.7.8/plyr.polyfilled.js"></script>

CSS

Include the plyr.css stylesheet into your <head>.

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

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

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.plyr.io/3.7.8/plyr.css" />

SVG Sprite

The SVG sprite is loaded automatically from our CDN (provided by Cloudflare). To change this, see the options below. For reference, the CDN hosted SVG sprite can be found at https://cdn.plyr.io/3.7.8/plyr.svg.

Self hosting

If you don't want to create a build system to include Plyr as an npm module, you can use the pre-built files. You have a few options:

• Download the files from the CDN links above, they're already minified.
• Download the files from unpkg or similar services.
• Build the project yourself using npm i && npm run build, which installs the dependencies and spits out a build to dist.

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.

If you do not wish to use Vi, you can set your own ads.tagUrl option.

Advanced

Customizing the CSS

If you want to change any design tokens used for the rendering of the player, you can do so using CSS Custom Properties.

Here's a list of the properties and what they are used for:

Name	Description	Default / Fallback
--plyr-color-main	The primary UI color.	#00b3ff
--plyr-video-background	The background color of video and poster wrappers for using alpha channel videos and poster images.	rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)
--plyr-focus-visible-color	The color used for the focus styles when an element is :focus-visible (keyboard focused).	--plyr-color-main
--plyr-badge-background	The background color for badges in the menu.	#4a5464
--plyr-badge-text-color	The text color for badges.	#ffffff
--plyr-badge-border-radius	The border radius used for badges.	2px
--plyr-captions-background	The color for the background of captions.	rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)
--plyr-captions-text-color	The color used for the captions text.	#ffffff
--plyr-control-icon-size	The size of the icons used in the controls.	18px
--plyr-control-spacing	The space between controls (sometimes used in a multiple - e.g. 10px / 2 = 5px).	10px
--plyr-control-padding	The padding inside controls.	--plyr-control-spacing * 0.7 (7px)
--plyr-control-radius	The border radius used on controls.	3px
--plyr-control-toggle-checked-background	The background color used for checked menu items.	--plyr-color-main
--plyr-video-controls-background	The background for the video controls.	linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75))
--plyr-video-control-color	The text/icon color for video controls.	#ffffff
--plyr-video-control-color-hover	The text/icon color used when video controls are :hover, :focus and :focus-visible (equivalent).	#ffffff
--plyr-video-control-background-hover	The background color used when video controls are :hover, :focus and :focus-visible (equivalent).	--plyr-color-main
--plyr-audio-controls-background	The background for the audio controls.	#ffffff
--plyr-audio-control-color	The text/icon color for audio controls.	#4a5464
--plyr-audio-control-color-hover	The text/icon color used when audio controls are :hover, :focus and :focus-visible (equivalent).	#ffffff
--plyr-audio-control-background-hover	The background color used when video controls are :hover, :focus and :focus-visible (equivalent).	--plyr-color-main
--plyr-menu-background	The background color for menus.	rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9)
--plyr-menu-color	The text/icon color for menu items.	#4a5464
--plyr-menu-shadow	The shadow used on menus.	0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15)
--plyr-menu-radius	The border radius on the menu.	4px
--plyr-menu-arrow-size	The size of the arrow on the bottom of the menu.	6px
--plyr-menu-item-arrow-color	The color of the arrows in the menu.	#728197
--plyr-menu-item-arrow-size	The size of the arrows in the menu.	4px
--plyr-menu-border-color	The border color for the bottom of the back button in the top of the sub menu pages.	#dcdfe5
--plyr-menu-border-shadow-color	The shadow below the border of the back button in the top of the sub menu pages.	#ffffff
--plyr-progress-loading-size	The size of the stripes in the loading state in the scrubber.	25px
--plyr-progress-loading-background	The background color on the loading state in the scrubber.	rgba(35, 40, 47, 0.6)
--plyr-video-progress-buffered-background	The fill color for the buffer indication in the scrubber for video.	rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25)
--plyr-audio-progress-buffered-background	The fill color for the buffer indication in the scrubber for audio.	rgba(193, 200, 209, 0.6)
--plyr-range-thumb-height	The height of the scrubber handle/thumb.	13px
--plyr-range-thumb-background	The background of the scrubber handle/thumb.	#ffffff
--plyr-range-thumb-shadow	The shadow of the scrubber handle/thumb.	0 1px 1px rgba(215, 26, 18, 0.15), 0 0 0 1px rgba(215, 26, 18, 0.2)
--plyr-range-thumb-active-shadow-width	The width of the shadow when the scrubber handle/thumb is :active (pressed).	3px
--plyr-range-track-height	The height of the scrubber/progress track.	5px
--plyr-range-fill-background	The fill color of the scrubber/progress.	--plyr-color-main
--plyr-video-range-track-background	The background of the scrubber/progress.	--plyr-video-progress-buffered-background
--plyr-video-range-thumb-active-shadow-color	The color of the shadow when the video scrubber handle/thumb is :active (pressed).	rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.5)
--plyr-audio-range-track-background	The background of the scrubber/progress.	--plyr-video-progress-buffered-background
--plyr-audio-range-thumb-active-shadow-color	The color of the shadow when the audio scrubber handle/thumb is :active (pressed).	rgba(215, 26, 18, 0.1)
--plyr-tooltip-background	The background color for tooltips.	rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9)
--plyr-tooltip-color	The text color for tooltips.	#4a5464
--plyr-tooltip-padding	The padding for tooltips.	calc(var(--plyr-control-spacing) / 2))
--plyr-tooltip-arrow-size	The size of the arrow under tooltips.	4px
--plyr-tooltip-radius	The border radius on tooltips.	3px
--plyr-tooltip-shadow	The shadow on tooltips.	0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15)
--plyr-font-family	The font family used in the player.
--plyr-font-size-base	The base font size. Mainly used for captions.	15px
--plyr-font-size-small	The smaller font size. Mainly used for captions.	13px
--plyr-font-size-large	The larger font size. Mainly used for captions.	18px
--plyr-font-size-xlarge	The even larger font size. Mainly used for captions.	21px
--plyr-font-size-time	The font size for the time.	--plyr-font-size-small
--plyr-font-size-menu	The font size used in the menu.	--plyr-font-size-small
--plyr-font-size-badge	The font size used for badges.	9px
--plyr-font-weight-regular	The regular font weight.	400
--plyr-font-weight-bold	The bold font weight.	600
--plyr-line-height	The line height used within the player.	1.7
--plyr-font-smoothing	Whether to enable font antialiasing within the player.	false

You can set them in your CSS for all players:

:root {
  --plyr-color-main: #1ac266;
}

...or for a specific class name:

.player {
  --plyr-color-main: #1ac266;
}

...or in your HTML:

<video class="player" style="--plyr-color-main: #1ac266;">...</video>

Sass

You can use plyr.scss file included in /src/sass as part of your build and change variables to suit your design. The Sass requires you to use autoprefixer (you should be 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

Initializing

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

• A CSS string selector
• A HTMLElement
• 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 multiple players below.

Single player

Passing a CSS string selector that's compatible with querySelector:

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

Passing a HTMLElement:

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

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

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

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 CSS string selector, a NodeList, an Array of HTMLElement, or a JQuery object:

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.

Options

The second argument for the constructor is the options object:

const player = new Plyr('#player', {
  title: 'Example Title',
});

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": "Example Title" }'></video>

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

1. Vimeo only
2. Autoplay is generally not recommended as it is seen as a negative user experience. It is also disabled in many browsers. Before raising issues, do your homework. More info can be found here:

• https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/
• https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/09/autoplay-policy-changes
• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/firefox-66-to-block-automatically-playing-audible-video-and-audio/

3. YouTube does not support programatically toggling the native fullscreen player via it's API. This means on iOS you have two options, neither being perfect:

• Use the fallback/faux fullscreen option which covers the whole viewport (this is the default)
• Set playsinline to false and/or fullscreen.iosNative to true - either option hides the fullscreen toggle in the UI (because of the above API issue) and means iOS will play the video in it's native player.

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 for most browsers - e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Edge 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;