wplayer

Features

• Accessible - full support for VTT captions and screen readers
• Customisable - make the player look how you want with the markup you want
• Good 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
• HTML Video & Audio - support for both formats
• 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 Safari's 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
• No dependencies - written in "vanilla" ES6 JavaScript, no jQuery required
• SASS - to include in your build processes

HTML

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

HTML5 Video

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

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>

SVG

The icons used in the Player 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 Player 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/

Using the inlineSvg option

You can specify inlineSvg option like this:

    const inlineSvg = require('wplayer/dist/plyr.svg');
    
    const player = new Player(someSelector, {
        controls: [
           ...
        ],
        loadSprite: true,
        inlineSvg
    });

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

Initialising

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

• A CSS string selector that's compatible with querySelector
• A HTMLElement
• A NodeList
• 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 setting up multiple players below.

Here's some examples

Passing a string selector:

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

Passing a HTMLElement:

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

Passing a NodeList (see note below):

const player = new Player(document.querySelectorAll('.js-player'));

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

Setting up 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 Player(p));

...or use a static method where you can pass a string selector, a NodeList or an Array of elements:

const players = Player.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.

Passing options

The second argument for the constructor is the options object:

const player = new Player('#player', {
    /* options */
});

In all cases, the constructor will return a Player object that can be used with the API methods. See the API section for more info.

Options

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": "This is an example video", "volume": 1, "debug": true }'></video>

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

Option	Type	Default	Description
enabled	Boolean	true	Completely disable Player. This would allow you to do a User Agent check or similar to programmatically enable or disable Player for a certain UA. Example below.
debug	Boolean	false	Display debugging information in the console
controls	Array, Function or Element	['play-large', 'play', 'progress', 'current-time', 'mute', 'volume', 'captions', 'settings', 'pip', 'airplay', 'fullscreen']	If a function is passed, it is assumed your method will return either an element or HTML string for the controls. Three arguments will be passed to your function; id (the unique id for the player), seektime (the seektime step in seconds), and title (the media title). See controls.md for more info on how the html needs to be structured.
settings	Array	['captions', 'quality', 'speed', 'loop']	If you're using the default controls are used then you can specify which settings to show in the menu
i18n	Object	See defaults.js	Used for internationalization (i18n) of the text within the UI.
loadSprite	Boolean	true	Load the SVG sprite specified as the iconUrl option (if a URL). If false, it is assumed you are handling sprite loading yourself.
iconUrl	String	null	Specify a URL or path to the SVG sprite. See the SVG section for more info.
iconPrefix	String	plyr	Specify the id prefix for the icons used in the default controls (e.g. "plyr-play" would be "plyr"). This is to prevent clashes if you're using your own SVG sprite but with the default controls. Most people can ignore this option.
blankVideo	String	https://cdn.plyr.io/static/blank.mp4	Specify a URL or path to a blank video file used to properly cancel network requests.
autoplay	Boolean	false	Autoplay the media on load. This is generally advised against on UX grounds. It is also disabled by default in some browsers. If the autoplay attribute is present on a <video> or <audio> element, this will be automatically set to true.
autopause¹	Boolean	true	Only allow one player playing at once.
seekTime	Number	10	The time, in seconds, to seek when a user hits fast forward or rewind.
volume	Number	1	A number, between 0 and 1, representing the initial volume of the player.
muted	Boolean	false	Whether to start playback muted. If the muted attribute is present on a <video> or <audio> element, this will be automatically set to true.
clickToPlay	Boolean	true	Click (or tap) of the video container will toggle play/pause.
disableContextMenu	Boolean	true	Disable right click menu on video to help as very primitive obfuscation to prevent downloads of content.
hideControls	Boolean	true	Hide video controls automatically after 2s of no mouse or focus movement, on control element blur (tab out), on playback start or entering fullscreen. As soon as the mouse is moved, a control element is focused or playback is paused, the controls reappear instantly.
resetOnEnd	Boolean	false	Reset the playback to the start once playback is complete.
keyboard	Object	{ focused: true, global: false }	Enable keyboard shortcuts for focused players only or globally
tooltips	Object	{ controls: false, seek: true }	controls: Display control labels as tooltips on :hover & :focus (by default, the labels are screen reader only). seek: Display a seek tooltip to indicate on click where the media would seek to.
duration	Number	null	Specify a custom duration for media.
displayDuration	Boolean	true	Displays the duration of the media on the "metadataloaded" event (on startup) in the current time display. This will only work if the preload attribute is not set to none (or is not set at all) and you choose not to display the duration (see controls option).
invertTime	Boolean	true	Display the current time as a countdown rather than an incremental counter.
toggleInvert	Boolean	true	Allow users to click to toggle the above.
listeners	Object	null	Allows binding of event listeners to the controls before the default handlers. See the defaults.js for available listeners. If your handler prevents default on the event (event.preventDefault()), the default handler will not fire.
captions	Object	{ active: false, language: 'auto', update: false }	active: Toggles if captions should be active by default. language: Sets the default language to load (if available). 'auto' uses the browser language. update: Listen to changes to tracks and update menu. This is needed for some streaming libraries, but can result in unselectable language options).
fullscreen	Object	{ enabled: true, fallback: true, iosNative: false }	enabled: Toggles whether fullscreen should be enabled. fallback: Allow fallback to a full-window solution. iosNative: whether to use native iOS fullscreen when entering fullscreen (no custom controls)
ratio	String	16:9	The aspect ratio you want to use for embedded players.
storage	Object	{ enabled: true, key: 'plyr' }	enabled: Allow use of local storage to store user settings. key: The key name to use.
speed	Object	{ selected: 1, options: [0.5, 0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2] }	selected: The default speed for playback. options: Options to display in the menu. Most browsers will refuse to play slower than 0.5.
quality	Object	{ default: 'default', options: ['hd2160', 'hd1440', 'hd1080', 'hd720', 'large', 'medium', 'small', 'tiny', 'default'] }	Currently only supported by YouTube. default is the default quality level, determined by YouTube. options are the options to display.
loop	Object	{ active: false }	active: Whether to loop the current video. If the loop attribute is present on a <video> or <audio> element, this will be automatically set to true This is an object to support future functionality.
ads	Object	{ enabled: false, publisherId: '' }	enabled: Whether to enable vi.ai ads. publisherId: Your unique vi.ai publisher ID.
urls	Object	See source.	If you wish to override any API URLs then you can do so here. You can also set a custom download URL for the download button.

1. Vimeo only

API

There are methods, setters and getters on a Player object.

Object

The easiest way to access the Player object is to set the return value from your call to the constructor to a variable. For example:

const player = new Player('#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

Method	Parameters	Description
play()¹	-	Start playback.
pause()	-	Pause playback.
togglePlay(toggle)	Boolean	Toggle playback, if no parameters are passed, it will toggle based on current status.
stop()	-	Stop playback and reset to start.
restart()	-	Restart playback.
rewind(seekTime)	Number	Rewind playback by the specified seek time. If no parameter is passed, the default seek time will be used.
forward(seekTime)	Number	Fast forward by the specified seek time. If no parameter is passed, the default seek time will be used.
increaseVolume(step)	Number	Increase volume by the specified step. If no parameter is passed, the default step will be used.
decreaseVolume(step)	Number	Increase volume by the specified step. If no parameter is passed, the default step will be used.
toggleCaptions(toggle)	Boolean	Toggle captions display. If no parameter is passed, it will toggle based on current status.
fullscreen.enter()	-	Enter fullscreen. If fullscreen is not supported, a fallback "full window/viewport" is used instead.
fullscreen.exit()	-	Exit fullscreen.
fullscreen.toggle()	-	Toggle fullscreen.
airplay()	-	Trigger the airplay dialog on supported devices.
toggleControls(toggle)	Boolean	Toggle the controls (video only). Takes optional truthy value to force it on/off.
on(event, function)	String, Function	Add an event listener for the specified event.
once(event, function)	String, Function	Add an event listener for the specified event once.
off(event, function)	String, Function	Remove an event listener for the specified event.
supports(type)	String	Check support for a mime type.
destroy()	-	Destroy the instance and garbage collect any elements.

1. For HTML5 players, play() will return a Promise in some browsers - WebKit and Mozilla 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;

Property	Getter	Setter	Description
isHTML5	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is HTML5.
isEmbed	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is an embedded player.
playing	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is playing.
paused	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is paused.
stopped	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is stopped.
ended	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player has finished playback.
buffered	✓	-	Returns a float between 0 and 1 indicating how much of the media is buffered
currentTime	✓	✓	Gets or sets the currentTime for the player. The setter accepts a float in seconds.
seeking	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is seeking.
duration	✓	-	Returns the duration for the current media.
volume	✓	✓	Gets or sets the volume for the player. The setter accepts a float between 0 and 1.
muted	✓	✓	Gets or sets the muted state of the player. The setter accepts a boolean.
hasAudio	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current media has an audio track.
speed	✓	✓	Gets or sets the speed for the player. The setter accepts a value in the options specified in your config. Generally the minimum should be 0.5.
quality¹	✓	✓	Gets or sets the quality for the player. The setter accepts a value from the options specified in your config.
loop	✓	✓	Gets or sets the current loop state of the player. The setter accepts a boolean.
source	✓	✓	Gets or sets the current source for the player. The setter accepts an object. See source setter below for examples.
poster	✓	✓	Gets or sets the current poster image for the player. The setter accepts a string; the URL for the updated poster image.
autoplay	✓	✓	Gets or sets the autoplay state of the player. The setter accepts a boolean.
currentTrack	✓	✓	Gets or sets the caption track by index. -1 means the track is missing or captions is not active
language	✓	✓	Gets or sets the preferred captions language for the player. The setter accepts an ISO two-letter language code. Support for the languages is dependent on the captions you include. If your captions don't have any language data, or if you have multiple tracks with the same language, you may want to use currentTrack instead.
fullscreen.active	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player is in fullscreen mode.
fullscreen.enabled	✓	-	Returns a boolean indicating if the current player has fullscreen enabled.
pip²	✓	✓	Gets or sets the picture-in-picture state of the player. The setter accepts a boolean. This currently only supported on Safari 10+ (on MacOS Sierra+ and iOS 10+) and Chrome 70+.

1. YouTube only. HTML5 will follow.
2. HTML5 only

The .source setter

This allows changing the player source and type on the fly.

Video example:

player.source = {
    type: 'video',
    title: 'Example title',
    sources: [
        {
            src: '/path/to/movie.mp4',
            type: 'video/mp4',
            size: 720,
        },
        {
            src: '/path/to/movie.webm',
            type: 'video/webm',
            size: 1080,
        },
    ],
    poster: '/path/to/poster.jpg',
    tracks: [
        {
            kind: 'captions',
            label: 'English',
            srclang: 'en',
            src: '/path/to/captions.en.vtt',
            default: true,
        },
        {
            kind: 'captions',
            label: 'French',
            srclang: 'fr',
            src: '/path/to/captions.fr.vtt',
        },
    ],
};

Audio example:

player.source = {
    type: 'audio',
    title: 'Example title',
    sources: [
        {
            src: '/path/to/audio.mp3',
            type: 'audio/mp3',
        },
        {
            src: '/path/to/audio.ogg',
            type: 'audio/ogg',
        },
    ],
};

Note: src property for YouTube and Vimeo can either be the video ID or the whole URL.

Property	Type	Description
type	String	Either video or audio. Note: YouTube and Vimeo are currently not supported as audio sources.
title	String	Optional. Title of the new media. Used for the aria-label attribute on the play button, and outer container. YouTube and Vimeo are populated automatically.
sources	Array	This is an array of sources. For HTML5 media, the properties of this object are mapped directly to HTML attributes so more can be added to the object if required.
poster¹	String	The URL for the poster image (HTML5 video only).
tracks¹	String	An array of track objects. Each element in the array is mapped directly to a track element and any keys mapped directly to HTML attributes so as in the example above, it will render as <track kind="captions" label="English" srclang="en" src="https://cdn.selz.com/plyr/1.0/example_captions_en.vtt" default> and similar for the French version. Booleans are converted to HTML5 value-less attributes.

1. HTML5 only

Events

You can listen for events on the target element you setup Player on (see example under the table). Some events only apply to HTML5 audio and video. Using your reference to the instance, you can use the on() API method or addEventListener(). Access to the API can be obtained this way through the event.detail.plyr property. Here's an example:

player.on('ready', event => {
    const instance = event.detail.plyr;
});

Standard Media Events

Event Type	Description
progress	Sent periodically to inform interested parties of progress downloading the media. Information about the current amount of the media that has been downloaded is available in the media element's buffered attribute.
playing	Sent when the media begins to play (either for the first time, after having been paused, or after ending and then restarting).
play	Sent when playback of the media starts after having been paused; that is, when playback is resumed after a prior pause event.
pause	Sent when playback is paused.
timeupdate	The time indicated by the element's currentTime attribute has changed.
volumechange	Sent when the audio volume changes (both when the volume is set and when the muted state is changed).
seeking	Sent when a seek operation begins.
seeked	Sent when a seek operation completes.
ratechange	Sent when the playback speed changes.
ended	Sent when playback completes. Note: This does not fire if autoplay is true.
enterfullscreen	Sent when the player enters fullscreen mode (either the proper fullscreen or full-window fallback for older browsers).
exitfullscreen	Sent when the player exits fullscreen mode.
captionsenabled	Sent when captions are enabled.
captionsdisabled	Sent when captions are disabled.
languagechange	Sent when the caption language is changed.
controlshidden	Sent when the controls are hidden.
controlsshown	Sent when the controls are shown.
ready	Triggered when the instance is ready for API calls.

HTML5 only

Event Type	Description
loadstart	Sent when loading of the media begins.
loadeddata	The first frame of the media has finished loading.
loadedmetadata	The media's metadata has finished loading; all attributes now contain as much useful information as they're going to.
qualitychange	The quality of playback has changed.
canplay	Sent when enough data is available that the media can be played, at least for a couple of frames. This corresponds to the HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA readyState.
canplaythrough	Sent when the ready state changes to CAN_PLAY_THROUGH, indicating that the entire media can be played without interruption, assuming the download rate remains at least at the current level. Note: Manually setting the currentTime will eventually fire a canplaythrough event in firefox. Other browsers might not fire this event.
stalled	Sent when the user agent is trying to fetch media data, but data is unexpectedly not forthcoming.
waiting	Sent when the requested operation (such as playback) is delayed pending the completion of another operation (such as a seek).
emptied	he media has become empty; for example, this event is sent if the media has already been loaded (or partially loaded), and the load() method is called to reload it.
cuechange	Sent when a TextTrack has changed the currently displaying cues.
error	Sent when an error occurs. The element's error attribute contains more information.

Shortcuts

By default, a player will bind the following keyboard shortcuts when it has focus. If you have the global option to true and there's only one player in the document then the shortcuts will work when any element has focus, apart from an element that requires input.

Key	Action
0 to 9	Seek from 0 to 90% respectively
space	Toggle playback
K	Toggle playback
←	Seek backward by the seekTime option
→	Seek forward by the seekTime option
↑	Increase volume
↓	Decrease volume
M	Toggle mute
F	Toggle fullscreen
C	Toggle captions
L	Toggle loop

Fullscreen

Fullscreen in Player is supported by all browsers that currently support it.

Browser support

Player supports the last 2 versions of most modern browsers.

Browser	Supported
Safari	✓
Mobile Safari	✓¹
Firefox	✓
Chrome	✓
Opera	✓
Edge	✓
IE11	✓³
IE10	✓²³

1. Mobile Safari on the iPhone forces the native player for <video> unless the playsinline attribute is present. Volume controls are also disabled as they are handled device wide.
2. Native player used (no support for <progress> or <input type="range">) but the API is supported. No native fullscreen support, fallback can be used (see options).
3. Polyfills required. See below.

Polyfills

Player uses ES6 which isn't supported in all browsers quite yet. This means some features will need to be polyfilled to be available otherwise you'll run into issues. We've elected to not burden the ~90% of users that do support these features with extra JS and instead leave polyfilling to you to work out based on your needs. The easiest method I've found is to use polyfill.io which provides polyfills based on user agent. This is the method the demo uses.

Checking for support

You can use the static method to check for support. For example

const supported = Player.supported('video', 'html5', true);

The arguments are:

• Media type (audio or video)
• Provider (html5, youtube or vimeo)
• Whether the player has the playsinline attribute (only applicable to iOS 10+)

Disable support programatically

The enabled option can be used to disable certain User Agents. For example, if you don't want to use Player for smartphones, you could use:

{
    enabled: /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry/i.test(navigator.userAgent);
}

If a User Agent is disabled but supports <video> and <audio> natively, it will use the native player.

RangeTouch

Some touch browsers (particularly Mobile Safari on iOS) seem to have issues with <input type="range"> elements whereby touching the track to set the value doesn't work and sliding the thumb can be tricky. To combat this, I've created RangeTouch which I'd recommend including in your solution. It's a tiny script with a nice benefit for users on touch devices.

Issues

If you find anything weird with Player, please let us know using the GitHub issues tracker.

Copyright and License

The MIT license