https://github.com/scerickson/covervid

Make your HTML5 video behave like a background cover image with this lightweight Javascript plugin / jQuery extension
https://github.com/scerickson/covervid

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Make your HTML5 video behave like a background cover image with this lightweight Javascript plugin / jQuery extension

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scerickson/covervid
• Owner: scerickson
• License: mit
• Archived: true
• Created: 2014-05-02T18:22:30.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-12T02:06:46.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-06T08:38:59.604Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: javascript, jquery, video
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 118 MB
• Stars: 1,049
• Watchers: 29
• Forks: 186
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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CoverVid

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#### ⚠️ This project is no longer maintained now that their is widespread support for the [`object-fit`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-fit) and [`object-position`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/object-position) CSS properties in modern browsers ⚠️

At the core of CoverVid, is the idea of this little CSS snippet being possible...

```css

.selector {

    background-video: url('../foo/bar.mp4 || ../foo/bar.webm');

    background-size: cover;

    background-position: center center;

}

```

Why is it special?

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CoverVid is very lightweight, with only 800 bytes of Javascripts. It is usable in native Javascript and jQuery. Its' logic is parent based, meaning the parent element can be any size (Not necessarily just a full-screen background).

How do I use it?

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1. First pull the project down from GitHub, or install with bower running bower install covervid and link covervid.min.js into your site. Make sure it is loaded after jQuery if using it.

2. It is important to note that the video you target will use its' parent element to scale. With that in mind, we will create some simple markup and add some base styling to size the videos' parent/wrapper element.

    ```html

    


        

            

            

        

    

    ```

    ```css

    .covervid-wrapper {

        position: absolute;

        top: 0;

        left: 0;

        width: 100%;

        height: 100%;

    }

    ```


3. Now, we would simply call coverVid(Container-Element, Video-Width, Video-Height) on the video element, passing through the native dimensions of the video. If you are using jQuery, we would call $('.covervid-video').coverVid(1920, 1080);.