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YouTube Playback Technology
for Video.js Build Status

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YouTube playback technology for the Video.js player.

Install

You can use bower (bower install videojs-youtube), npm (npm install videojs-youtube) or the source and build it using grunt. Then, the only file you need is dist/vjs.youtube.js.

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://vjs.zencdn.net/4.12/video-js.css" />
  <script src="https://vjs.zencdn.net/4.12/video.js"></script>
  <script src="vjs.youtube.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <video id="vid1" src="" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls preload="auto" width="640" height="360" data-setup='{ "techOrder": ["youtube"], "src": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjS6SftYQaQ" }'>
  </video>
</body>
</html>

See the examples folder for more

How does it work?

Including the script vjs.youtube.js will add the YouTube as a tech. You just have to add it to your techOrder option. Then, you add the option src with your YouTube URL.

It supports:

Additional Options

This plugin exposes the following additional player options:

  • ytcontrols (Boolean): Display the YouTube player controls instead of the Video.js player controls. (default false)
  • ytFullScreenControls (Boolean): Show the fullscreen controls on the default youtube player controls. Also enables double click to fullscreen. (default true)
  • quality (String): Set the default video quality. Should be one of 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, 144p.
  • playsInline (Boolean): Sets the playsinline YouTube player parameter to enable inline playback on iOS
  • forceHTML5 (Boolean): Forces loading the YouTube HTML5 player (default true)

##Special Thank You Thanks to Steve Heffernan for the amazing Video.js and to John Hurliman for the original version of the YouTube tech

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