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.
I like how SoundCloud and Vimeo have their various tabs synchronized so as soon as you start playing something in one tab, the other tabs pause. What's more interesting is that this only works on SoundCloud when two instances of the website are open, but for Vimeo this happens even between a Vimeo website tab (with the video playing) and a Vimeo video embedded on say The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/22/7433775/watch-the-styles-of-your-favorite-directors-recreated-with-stock). However when the Vimeo video is embedded on Facebook (when I had shared it) it doesn't work.
I was wondering if one of the techniques mentioned on Javascript: sharing data between tabs is used here and if yes, why doesn't it work when the Vimeo video is embedded on Facebook and I have another tab playing Vimeo video.
So, I just inspected and indeed both SoundCloud and Vimeo use a localStorage solution. Vimeo has a key from https://f.vimeocdn.com called sync_active which updates to whichever video is playing currently or last played (if all the videos are paused). They have this key even when a Vimeo video is embedded on The Verge and hence this works there as well. However in the case of Facebook, Vimeo doesn't have any localStorage and hence no synchronization happens.
In the case of SoundCloud, it also has a key from https://soundcloud.com called V2::local::inst_<id> which gets updated to whichever tab is playing. They don't have this localStorage even when SoundCloud is embedded on The Verge and hence this only works between various SoundCloud website tabs.
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