Video.js Simple Prerolls

Simple video.js plugin that uses the video.js' videojs-contrib-ads plugin to display a preroll video before the main video starts.

Adding the plugin

Download the videojs-contrib-ads plugin or build it yourself from the repository. Include videojs.ads.js and videojs-preroll after including video.js itself.

<script src="video.js"></script>
<script src="videojs.ads.js"></script>
<script src="videojs-preroll.js"></script>
<link href="video-js.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="video.ads.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<link href="videojs-preroll.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

Initialize the plugin:

<video id="example_video_1" class="video-js vjs-default-skin" controls width="640" height="264" poster="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.png">
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4" type='video/mp4' />
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.webm" type='video/webm' />
  <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.ogv" type='video/ogg' />
</video>
<script>
videojs('example_video_1', {plugins:{ads:{},preroll:{src:"advertisement.mp4"}}});
</script>

There's also a working example of the plugin you can check out if you're having trouble.

Documentation

Plugin Options

You may pass in an options object to the plugin upon initialization. This object may contain any of the following properties:

src

Type: String

Required. Source video file to play

href

Type: String

Url to redirect to if user clicks on the ad. Can be left empty for no redirection.

target

Type: String Default: _blank

Target to open the url in (eg _blank or _top)

allowSkip

Type: Boolean Default: true

Allow the user to skip the ad when it has played for a number of seconds

skipTime

Type: Integer Default: 5

Number of seconds after which the video can be skipped

repeatAd

Type: Boolean Default: false

Whether the ad should be repeated if a new src is loaded to the player

Credits

Uses javascript and css for video skipping and linking block from The Onions videojs-vast-plugin

Release History

###v0.2.0

• Updated videojs-contrib-ads library to v0.5.0 and made the preroll plugin compatible with it
• Fixed some of the loading events to start playback faster if there is no ad to be displayed

###v0.1.0

• Initial release

License

MIT