VideoJS for Asset Pipeline

Installation

Add to your Gemfile

gem 'videojs_rails'

And run bundle to install the library.

bundle

Add the resources to your application.js file

# app/assets/javascripts/application.js
//= require video

And that resource to application.css file

/*
*= require_self
*= require video-js
*/

currently skins are not implemented (after migrate to 4.1 version)

And to production.rb add this line

config.assets.precompile += %w( video-js.swf vjs.eot vjs.svg vjs.ttf vjs.woff )

Usage

<%= videojs_rails sources: { mp4: "http://domain.com/path/to/video.mp4", webm: "http://another.com/path/to/video.webm" }, width:"400" %>

Captions

This is currently experimental function.

<%= videojs_rails sources: { mp4: "http://domain.com/path/to/video.mp4" }, width:"400", captions: { en: "http://domain.com/path/to/captions.vvt" } %>

Resources

http://videojs.com/ http://videojs.com/#getting-started

Update from video.js release

Generate video.js distribution files

• Checkout release tag e.g. git checkout v4.6.1.
• Run the build i.e. grunt.

Copy video.js files into videojs_rails

$ cp $VIDEO_JS_HOME/dist/video-js/video-js.swf $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/flash/
$ cp $VIDEO_JS_HOME/dist/video-js/font/* $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/fonts/
$ cp $VIDEO_JS_HOME/dist/video-js/video.dev.js $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/javascripts/video.js.erb
$ cp $VIDEO_JS_HOME/dist/video-js/video-js.css $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/stylesheets/video-js.css.erb

Update video.js files with ERB from previous version of videojs_rails

The following files need to be modified to use the Rails asset_path helper e.g. for the location of the Flash player SWF file and for the location of the various font files:

• $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/javascripts/video.js.erb
• $VIDEO_JS_RAILS_HOME/vendor/assets/stylesheets/video-js.css.erb