So I am using video.js as my video player on my website, but was curious if there was a way (either using video.js or another video player) to be able to sync a video between all devices on the website?
For example, if Person A, Person B and Person C is viewing this video on my website, it would sync their video up so they are at the same time, and if either of them pauses then all three people see their video pause? A lot like Netflix Party / Youtube Party for videos. I am quite new to JS
It's possible to set and read the current time of a video in JavaScript with HTMLMediaElement.currentTime. You can also play/pause and check if its playing with either the paused attribute or the pause/play events.
You will need some form of backend to keep track of when all of this happens and to relay the appropriate time/events to everyone watching which is outside the scope of basic DOM JS (though there are JS based backends if that's your thing).
You'll probably need some form of live two-way connection like a websocket.
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I want to program a little browser game which needs some audio.
<audio id='my-audio' src='...'></audio>
That works on desktop and mobile but I have one problem: I can control this audio with the system audio controls. So when I press pause/play on my computer keyboard it affects this audio and on my phone's lock screen there appears a huge audio control widget. Is it possible to disable/remove these controls?
I also tried using
new Audio('...')
in Javascript instead of the audio-tag. That did not solve the problem.
I suggest using the Web Audio API. The link is to an example that I think covers a use case similar to what you requested. In addition to running the tutorial, I've also successfully used this API to read raw audio data (PCM array of float values) and play back on demand, which is a bit more involved than what you are asking. In either case, there was no issue with popups of any sort.
So I am using video.js as my video player on my website, but was curious if there was a way (either using video.js or another video player) to be able to sync a video between all devices on the website?
For example, if Person A, Person B and Person C is viewing this video on my website, it would sync their video up so they are at the same time, and if either of them pauses then all three people see their video pause? A lot like Netflix Party / Youtube Party for videos. I am quite new to JS
It's possible to set and read the current time of a video in JavaScript with HTMLMediaElement.currentTime. You can also play/pause and check if its playing with either the paused attribute or the pause/play events.
You will need some form of backend to keep track of when all of this happens and to relay the appropriate time/events to everyone watching which is outside the scope of basic DOM JS (though there are JS based backends if that's your thing).
You'll probably need some form of live two-way connection like a websocket.
my friends and I are making a website that acts like a radio station called Musare with playlists of YouTube videos that play after each other.
Recently Chrome introduced a new 'feature' that automatically disables autoplaying of videos in background tabs with no option to turn this off. This breaks our site because users don't want to keep going back to the site to start a song. This also broke other big sites, like YouTube playlists, Facebook chat notification sound and a lot of music sharing sites.
By now, a lot of sites have found solutions to bypass this, like dubtrack.fm, YouTube, Facebook and probably some other sites as well.
There is someone working on making an option for it at https://codereview.chromium.org/1414853003/, but that might take weeks or even months for it to be in the main Google Chrome.
If anyone knows how to bypass this, please let me know.
Thanks in advance :)
Already tried:
Starting another video before the current one ends - no success
Messing around with the Player Variables - no success
Other things probably - no success
Extra notes:
We are using the YouTube API. We use YT.Player and the youtubePlayer.loadVideoById(id)
SoundCloud streaming works fine with SC.Stream.
The source code for our project is at https://github.com/Musare/Musare
So I have found out how to bypass it finally, after many hours of trying and researching.
If you just initialize the iframe player of YouTube by using the YT.Player constructor, you can then just use the player variable and use yourPlayerVariable.loadVideoById(id).
You have to first go to the tab for it to start, but after that it will be able to load and play video's without you having to go back to the tab. If you remove and re-add the iframe, you will have to go back for it to start again.
*Situation is -*I have to design a webpage that works on both desktop and on mobile devices, that plays an embeded youtube video (not autostarted) which then i can use interact with the video to get the play state etc (using this to count the total time watched, excluding pause/buffer/stop time)
I've managed to build the website using both the IFrame API and Javascript API from Youtube.
*However the problem is-*With Javascript API, the player on the desktop works and the view gets counted too but it doesnt work when i view it on a mobile device. The place where it should show the video (the div tag) doesnt react.
With the IFrame API, everything works in terms of functionality but when i press play on the video, the views do not get counted - accessed from both desktop and mobile. I've tested the viewcount several times, with different IP etc but while javascript API web gets counted instantly, IFrame API web is still not getting counted..
Does anyone have any suggestion to this problem?
Just to remind you, the crucial aspect of the webpage that i need are:
Embeded Youtube player
Being able to interact with the player (e.g. getState() or getDuration())
Website fully functional with mobile access
Valid view count
Thank you all in advance!! :)
Are you sure that the views are really being counted via the javascript api? I have always read that view counts only are considered valid when initiated using the actual YT play button. Meaning you can't initiate play via any API call and have the view count.
Here is a a somewhat dated blog post from Google/Youtube team explaining - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/youtube-api-gdata/7SsbvOJMWL0/rBCBqnFaxRgJ
I'm trying to find something that says this has changed but so far no luck.
** EDIT **
So I went back to the iFrame and Javascript API pages and if you do a search for 'view count' the first piece of content you'll find is a line stating --
"Note: A playback only counts toward a video's official view count if it is initiated via a native play button in the player."
Re-reading your post I'm not sure if you are using the API's to play the video or just to get data from its current state. If you are using it to actually initiate play then the view counts are not actually being counted. If you are seeing something different I'd love to see and learn from it.
Alright, I'm working on one project which involves html5 audio, in addition to that a video is shown while audio is playing (Just video, no controls etc). Video is a visualisation (sometimes called equaliser) of audio that is playing, made beforehand in adobe after effects. both files (video and audio) are same length e.g. 3 min 20 sec. I need a way to synchronise both, as video might load slower than audio or vice versa. Therefore I need to make it so that on computers with slow internet connection if video stops loading at some point and starts buffering I need to pause audio, and once video resumes start audio again, both at exactly same time, also when user skips to a certain bit in a song, video should skip to that bit as well, I'll use custom api made player for video so there would be no controls on video, only on soundcloud player.
It is almost as if I was using soundcloud custom player to control video. I'm struggling to find any resources on this anywhere, and would really like to know how to achieve this functionality.
javascript or jQuery solutions are preferable.
What makes it even more complicated is that I use SoundCloud's custom player to play songs:
http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs/custom-player#
And upload videos to Vimeo/YouTube (all done to decrease load on a website)
Check here: http://html5demos.com/two-videos
The sample is for syncing 2 videos, but with some hacking probably you can manage to sync audio and video.
Second, don't use Custom player, make your own HTML5 Audio element, check the SoundCloud API there is a property stream_url for every streamable track on soundcloud, just put that URL as source on your html5 audio tag.
Keep on mind that this will not work on Firefox and Opera for some time. Firefox will integrate native mp3 support in v20, not sure about opera