iOS now supports this natively since v10. So long, and thanks for all the videos!
Make videos playable inline on Safari on iPhone (prevents automatic fullscreen)
This enables iOS 10's playsinline attribute on iOS 8 and iOS 9 (almost a polyfill). It lets you:
- Play videos without going fullscreen on the iPhone (demo)
- Play silent videos without user interaction
- Autoplay silent videos with the
autoplayattribute (demo) - Use videos as WebGL/ThreeJS textures (demo)
- <2KB, standalone (no frameworks required)
- No setup: include it, call
enableInlineVideo(video), done - No custom API for playback, you can just call
video.play()onclick - Supports audio
- Supports autoplay on silent videos
- Doesn't need canvas
- Doesn't create new elements/wrappers
- It works with existing players like jPlayer
- Disabled automatically on iOS 10+
Limitations:
- Needs user interaction to play videos with sound (standard iOS limitation)
- Limited to iPhone with iOS 8 and 9. iPad support needs to be enabled separately. It's disabled on Android.
- The video framerate depends on
requestAnimationFrame, so avoid expensive animations and similar while the video is playing. Try stats.js to visualize your page's framerate - Known issues
Pick your favorite:
<script src="dist/iphone-inline-video.min.js"></script>npm install --save iphone-inline-videovar enableInlineVideo = require('iphone-inline-video');import enableInlineVideo from 'iphone-inline-video';You will need:
-
a
<video>element with the attributeplaysinline(required on iOS 10 and iOS 11. Why?)<video src="file.mp4" playsinline></video>
-
the native play buttons will still trigger the fullscreen, so it's best to hide them when
iphone-inline-videois enabled. More info on the.IIVCSS class.IIV::-webkit-media-controls-play-button, .IIV::-webkit-media-controls-start-playback-button { opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; width: 5px; }
-
the activation call
// one video var video = document.querySelector('video'); enableInlineVideo(video);
// or if you're already using jQuery: var video = $('video').get(0); enableInlineVideo(video);
// or if you have multiple videos: $('video').each(function () { enableInlineVideo(this); });
Done! It will only be enabled on iPhones and iPod Touch devices.
Now you can keep using it just like you would on a desktop. Run video.play(), video.pause(), listen to events with video.addEventListener() or $(video).on(), etc...
BUT you still need user interaction to play the audio, so do something like this:
enableInlineVideo(video);
video.addEventListener('touchstart', function () {
video.play();
});If at some point you want to open the video in fullscreen, use the standard (but still prefixed) webkitEnterFullScreen() API, but it has some caveats.
If your video file doesn't have an audio track, then must set a muted attribute:
<video muted playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>The autoplay attribute is also supported, if muted is set:
<video autoplay muted playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>Muted videos can also be played without user interaction — which means that video.play() doesn't need to be called inside an event listener:
<video muted playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>setTimeout(function () { video.play(); }, 1000); // exampleThe iPad already supports inline videos so IIV is not enabled there.
The only reason to enabled IIV on iPad:
- you want muted videos to autoplay, or
- you want to play videos without user interaction
To enabled IIV on the iPad:
enableInlineVideo(video, {
iPad: true
});New features in iOS 10 and iOS 11:
-
videos play inline:
<video playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>
-
muted videos play inline without user interaction:
<video muted playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>
setTimeout(function () { video.play(); }, 1000); // example
-
muted videos autoplay inline:
<video autoplay muted playsinline src="video.mp4"></video>
Essentially everything that this module does, so iphone-inline-video will be automatically disabled on iOS 10-11. Make sure you use the playsinline attribute.
MIT © Federico Brigante
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