gifplayer

Customizable jquery plugin to play and stop animated gifs. Similar to 9gag's. New: Video support (webm, mp4)

Basic Usage

1. Add a preview of the gif or video file to your website
2. Specify a ‘data-src’ attribute with the path to the animated gif or video, or simply have an image with the same name and the .gif extension in the same folder of the ‘preview’ image
3. Include jquery.js, jquery.gifplayer.js and gifplayer.css on your site
4. Call the .gifplayer() method for the desired images

<img class="gifplayer" src="media/banana.png" />
 
<script>
	$('.gifplayer').gifplayer();
</script>

Options

Options can be setup in two ways:

1. Setup as an object when initializing the plugin:

$('.banana').gifplayer({ label: 'play' });

2. Setup as data attributes in the preview image:

<img class="banana" src="banana.png" data-label="play">

Option	Values	Default	Allowed values
label	A value for the label in the circle over the image	‘gif’
playOn	Event that triggers playing the animated gif	'click'	'click', 'hover'
mode	Load an animated gif file or a video	'gif'	'gif', 'video'
gif	Source for the gif file	Default option is the same name of the preview imagem replacing extension to .gif
mp4	Source for the mp4 video file (video mode)	Default option is the same name of the preview imagem replacing extension to .mp4
webm	Source for the webm video file (video mode)	Default option is the same name of the preview imagem replacing extension to .webm
wait	Would you wait until the animation file has been fully loaded to play, or start playing right away	false	true, false

Methods (beta)

Use these methods to play and stop the player programatically

$('#banana').gifplayer('play');

$('#banana').gifplayer('stop');

Events (beta)

Use events to do awesome things

$('#banana').gifplayer({
    onPlay: function(){
        console.log('GIF started',this);
    },
    onStop: function(){
        console.log('GIF stopped',this);
    },
});