Vide

Easy as hell jQuery plugin for video backgrounds.

Minified version size: ~3.6kb

Notes

All modern desktop browsers are supported.
IE9+
iOS plays video from a browser only in the native player. So video for iOS is disabled, only fullscreen poster will be.
Some android devices play video, some — no, go figure. So video for android is disabled, only fullscreen poster will be.

Instructions

Download it from GitHub or via Bower: bower install vide

Include plugin: <script src="js/jquery.vide.min.js"></script>

Prepare your video in several formats like '.webm', '.mp4' for cross browser compatability, also add a poster with .jpg, .png or .gif extension:

path/
├── to/
│   ├── video.mp4
│   ├── video.ogv
│   ├── video.webm
│   └── video.jpg

Add data-vide-bg attribute with a path to the video and poster without extension, video and poster must have the same name. Add data-vide-options to pass vide options, if you need it. By default video is muted, looped and starts automatically.

<div style="width: 1000px; height: 500px;"
    data-vide-bg="path/to/video" data-vide-options="loop: false, muted: false, position: 0% 0%">
</div>

Or you can initialize it with JS, in some situations it can be helpful, because Vide doesn't have mutation observers, they are on you own:

$("#myBlock1").vide("path/to/video");
$("#myBlock2").vide("path/to/video", {
...options...
});

Easy as hell.

Options

Below a complete list of options and matching default values:

$("#yourElement").vide({
    volume: 1,
    playbackRate: 1,
    muted: true,
    loop: true,
    autoplay: true,
    position: "50% 50%" // Similar to the CSS `background-position` property
});

Methods

Below a complete list of methods:

// Get instance of the plugin
var instance = $("#yourElement").data("vide");

// Get video element of the background. Do what you want.
instance.getVideoObject();

// Resize video background.
// It calls automatically, if window resize (or element, if you will use something like https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-resize).
instance.resize();

// Destroy plugin instance
instance.destroy();

Resizing

Vide plugin resizes, if window resizes. If you will use something like https://github.com/cowboy/jquery-resize, it will resize automatically, when element will resize. Or simply use resize() method whenever you need.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Ilya Makarov, http://vodkabears.github.io

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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