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To use a video background we have to use the HTML 5 <video> element with position absolute inside a container wrapper. Videos are increasingly common in nowadays websites and a great way to create a modern website. With just a bit of CSS you can add a video background to your site in a matter of minutes.
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Take a look at my jquery videoBG plugin
http://syddev.com/jquery.videoBG/
Make any HTML5 video a site background... has an image fallback for browsers that don't support html5
Really easy to use
Let me know if you need any help.
First, your HTML markup looks like this:
<video id="awesome_video" src="first_video.mp4" autoplay />
Second, your JavaScript code will look like this:
<script type="text/javascript">
var index = 1,
playlist = ['first_video.mp4', 'second_video.mp4', 'third_video.mp4'],
video = document.getElementById('awesome_video');
video.addEventListener('ended', rotate_video, false);
function rotate_video() {
video.setAttribute('src', playlist[index]);
video.load();
index++;
if (index >= playlist.length) { index = 0; }
}
</script>
And last but not least, your CSS:
#awesome_video { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }
This will create a video element on your page that starts playing the first video right away, then iterates through the playlist defined by the JavaScript variable. Your mileage with the CSS may vary depending on the CSS for the rest of the site, but 100% width/height should do it on a basic page.
I might have a solution for the video as background, stretched to the browser-width or height, (but the video will still preserve the aspect ratio, couldnt find a solution for that yet.):
Put the video right after the body-tag with style="width:100%;".
Right afterwords, put a "bodydummy"-tag:
<body>
<video id="bgVideo" autoplay poster="videos/poster.png">
<source src="videos/test-h264-640x368-highqual-winff.mp4" type="video/mp4"/>
<source src="videos/test-640x368-webmvp8-miro.webm" type="video/webm"/>
<source src="videos/test-640x368-theora-miro.ogv" type="video/ogg"/>
</video>
<img id="bgImg" src="videos/poster.png" />
<!-- This image stretches exactly to the browser width/height and lies behind the video-->
<div id="bodyDummy">
Put all your content inside the bodydummy-div and put the z-indexes correctly in CSS like this:
#bgImg{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border: 0;
z-index: 1;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#bgVideo{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
border: 0;
z-index: 2;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
#bodyDummy{
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 3;
overflow: auto;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
Hope I could help. Let me know when you could find a solution that the video does not maintain the aspect ratio, so it could fill the whole browser window so we do not have to put a bgimage.
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