A settings plugin for Hola Video.JS fork. Shows a menu with optional 3 items:
- Technical info – shows overlay with video tech info
- Quality select – if possible, user can select different quality for current video
- Report playback issue – automatically send player logs to Hola (for now this feature is working only with Hola CDN)
Extra features:
- minimal right-click context menu;
- default volume/quality (if available) configuration;
- persistent volume/quality saved accross page reloads (if hola/videojs-utils included).
To start using Hola settings plugin, follow these steps:
- Add these includes to your document's
<head>:
<script src="https://cdn.rawgit.com/hola/videojs5-settings/08567a8660366ba71cb937ae2b8fdc2cf8369e56/dist/videojs-settings.min.js"></script>- Set
pluginsoption for your Video.js setup:
In video tag data-setup attribute in your html
<video ... data-setup='{"plugins":{"settings":{"info":true,"report":true,"quality":true}}}'>
<source src="http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_1080p.mp4" type="video/mp4" label="high" />
<source src="http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_720p.mp4" type="video/mp4" label="medium" />
<source src="http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_360p.mp4" type="video/mp4" label="low" default />
</video>or in javascript videojs call:
videojs('your-video-element', {
plugins: {
settings: {
info: true,
report: true,
quality: {
sources: [
{src:"http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_1080p.mp4", type: "video/mp4", label: "high"},
{src:"http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_720p.mp4", type: "video/mp4", label: "medium"},
{src:"http://cdn.example.com/static/mp4/example_360p.mp4", type: "video/mp4", label: "low", "default": true}
]
},
volume: {level: 0.5, mute: true},
show_settings_popup_on_click: true
}
}
});The following configuration options are supported by this plugin:
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| info | <Boolean> |
false | Show 'technical info' in settings menu |
| report | <Boolean> |
false | Show 'report playback issue' in settings menu |
| quality.sources | <Array> |
List of quality sources. Shown in settings menu if quality.sources.length>1 |
|
| quality.sources[i].src | <String> |
Media source URL | |
| quality.sources[i].type | <String> |
Media source type | |
| quality.sources[i].label | <String> |
Media source label: shown in settings menu | |
| quality.sources[i]['default'] | <Boolean> |
false | Media source to be selected by default. NOTE: this may be overriden by persistent configuration. |
| volume | ``` | false``` | |
| volume.level | <Float> |
1.0 | Volume level between 0.0 and 1.0. NOTE: use volume.mute instead of 0.0 if you want to disable volume level. NOTE: this may be overriden by persisten configuration, use volume.override_local_storage = true to force defined configuration. |
| volume.mute | <Boolean> |
false | Volume mute. NOTE: this may be overriden by persisten configuration, use volume.override_local_storage = true to force defined configuration. |
| volume.override_local_storage | <Boolean> |
false | Set to true if you want to force volume configuration and ignore user choice saved in persistent configuration |
| show_settings_popup_on_click | <Boolean> |
false | Select the trigger method to show settings menu: onhover (false) or onclick (true) |
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| beforeresolutionchange | Fired when user clicks on a quality menu item. Use event.preventDefault() to cancel user selection (for instance when login required to view higher quality video etc). |
| resolutionchange | Fired when new resolution applied. Use player.currentSrc() to identify selected quality. |