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Description

Polyplayer allows you to rule YouTube's, Soundcloud's and Vimeo's player using one API.

Code Quality Rank: L4
Programming language: JavaScript
Tags: Video/Audio    

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README

Polyplayer

Polyplayer allows you to rule YouTube's, Soundcloud's and Vimeo's player using one API.

Features

  • Playing, pausing, stopping
  • Seek to absolute or relative position
  • Fetch details about videos
  • Listen to events

Example

More examples are in examples/.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <body>

        <!-- This element wil be the player's parent node -->
        <div id="player"></div>

        <!-- Polyplayer requires Backbone and Underscore -->
        <script src="../bower_components/underscore/underscore.js"></script>
        <script src="../bower_components/backbone/backbone.js"></script>

        <!-- Polyplayer itself including vendor scripts -->
        <script src="../polyplayer.vendor.min.js"></script>

        <script>

            /**
             * Create new Soundcloud player
             */
            var player = new PP.Player({

                videoUrl: "https://soundcloud.com/mashupgermany/mashup-germany-berlin-banquet",

                container: "#player"

            });

            /**
             * Wait until the player is ready to play
             */
            player.on("ready", function() {

                /**
                 * Play and pause after 6s
                 */
                player.play();

                setTimeout(function() {
                    player.pause();
                }, 6000);

            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

API

Player

Player is an instance of Backbone.Model and has all its functions inherited. It's located under the PP namespace inside window (PP.Player).

new Player(options)

Creates a new player instance. options in an object:

Player#play()

Plays the video. This will fire a play event and change the state to PLAYING.

Player#pause()

Pauses the video. This will fire a pause event and change the state to PAUSED.

Player#stop()

Stops the video. This will fire a stop event and change the state to STOPPED. The video will start from the beginning when played.

Player#getDetails(callback)

Fetches details about the video. callback is a node-like callback function (err, result). result is an object containing following properties:

  • title String: The video's title
  • duration Number: Duration in ms
  • createdAt Date: Video's creating date
  • thumbnails Array: Video's thumbnail. Each element has width, height and url properties

Player#getCurrentPosition()

Returns the current position in ms.

Player#getState()

Returns the current state:

  • Player.states.LOADING: 0
  • Player.states.READY: 1
  • Player.states.PLAYING: 2
  • Player.states.PAUSED: 3
  • Player.states.FINISHED: 4
  • Player.states.STOPPED: 5

Player#seek(percent)

Seeks to a relative position in the video. percent is a number between 0 and 1, e.g. 0.5. This will fire a playProgress event.

Player#seekTo(ms)

Seeks to a absolute position in the video. ms is the number in ms to seek to, e.g. 12000. This will fire a playProgress event.

Events

Use Backbone.Model's on, off and once function to listen to events.

play

Fired when the video starts to play.

pause

Fired when the video pauses.

stop

Fired when the video stops.

finish

Fired when the video finishs to play.

playProgress

Fired continously when the video plays or seeks.

stateChange

Fired when the states changes. See Player#getState().

Playlist

Playlist is an instance of Backbone.Collection and has all its functions inherited. It's located under the PP namespace inside window (PP.Playlist).

new Player(players, options)

  • players is an array which contains Players which should be add instantly. Creates a new player instance. options in an object:
  • container String: CSS selector string to match the parent element in which later added players are injected.

Playlist#add(player)

Add a player to the list. player is either an instance of Player or an options object which will be passed to the Player's contructor.

Playlist#getCurrentPlayer()

Returns the current player object or null.

Playlist#setPlayer(playerObj)

playerObj should be an instance on Player which will be set as the current player.

Playlist#setPlayerById(playerId)

Same as setPlayer but gets the player using its id.

Playlist#nextPlayer(startFromBeginning)

Set the next player in the list as the current one. If startFromBeginning is true it will start from the beginning again if it reaches the bottom.

Playlist#previousPlayer(startFromEnd)

Sets the previous player in the list as the current one. If startFromEnd is true it will start from the end again it it reaches the top.

Playlist#randomPlayer()

Sets a random player as the current player.

Playlist#loopMode

Represents the current strategy what happends when a player finishes (finish event is fired):

  • Playlist.loopModes.NO: 0 (Nothing, default)
  • Playlist.loopModes.NEXT: 1 (Play the next player but don't repeat the list)
  • Playlist.loopModes.LOOP: 2 (Play the next player and repeat the list)
  • Playlist.loopModes.RANDOM: 3 (Choose a random player to be next)

It also exposes following functions which behave the same as Player does on the current player:

  • Playlist#play()
  • Playlist#pause()
  • Playlist#stop()
  • Playlist#getCurrentPosition()
  • Playlist#getState()
  • Playlist#seek(percent)

Events

Since it's a Backbone.Collection, Playlist triggers all events which are emitted by its models (see Player's event). Additionally it fires a playerChange event when a new player is set.

Browser support

Tested successfully in Chrome 31 and Firefox 26. IE 11 has problems using the YouTube iFrame API (we cannot fix this; it's YT's problem). Mobile browsers need flash or support HTML5's video and audio elements.

Testing

Use test/player.html and test/playlist.html to run tests. You'll need Flash in order to succed all tests.

Building

We use gulp for building and bower for dependency management:

# Install gulp and bower cli
npm install -g gulp bower

# Fetch all dependecies
npm install
bower install

# Build polyplayer.js
gulp build

# Build polyplayer.min.js
gulp build-minify

# Build polyplayer.vendor.min.js
gulp build-vendor

# Buid all
gulp all

See gulpfile.js for all tasks.

License

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Marius [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.


*Note that all licence references and agreements mentioned in the polyplayer README section above are relevant to that project's source code only.