vue-hls-player

Descriptions

It is a video player for the m3u8 format thankfully forked by LeonidShv/vue-hls-video-player. Customized to make the player themable. Added support for showing subtitles / captions of the videos.

Requirements: only for the vue 3 and nuxt 3 projects

Examples, how to use component

npm i vue-hls-player

<script setup>
  import { VideoPlayer } from 'vue-hls-player';

  function processPause(progress) {
    console.log(progress)
  }

  const subtitles = [
    {
        link: "subtitles-de.vtt",
        label: "Deutsch",
        lang: "de"
    },
    {
        link: "subtitles-en.vtt",
        label: "English",
        lang: "en"
    }
]
</script>

<template>
  <div id="video-container">
    <VideoPlayer
        type="default"
        @pause="processPause"
        previewImageLink="poster.webp"
        link="videoLink.m3u8"
        :progress="30"
        :isMuted="false"
        :isControls="true"
        :subtitles="subtitles"
        class="customClassName"
    />

    <VideoPlayer
        type="preview"
        previewImageLink="poster.webp"
        link="videoLink.m3u8"
        class="customClassName"
    />
  </div>
</template>

For nuxt 3, try to wrap this component in ClientOnly, images for previewImageLink need to store in public folder

<ClientOnly>
  <VideoPlayer
    type="preview"
    previewImageLink="/img/learn.webp"
    link="https://demo.unified-streaming.com/k8s/features/stable/video/tears-of-steel/tears-of-steel.ism/.m3u8"
    class="customClassName"
  />
</ClientOnly>

Props:

type:

1. value: 'default', type: String

default video player, where you can process pauses and setup progress time.

Default props for the type: default:

:isMuted="false"

2. value: 'preview', type: String

you can pause video on hover, without sound (muted), without controls. It does not have access to props: isMuted, isControls, progress, @pause

Default props for the type: preview:

:isMuted="true"

@pause:

1. Event, for processing pauses: @pause="processPause"

function processPause(progress: number) {
  console.log(progress)
}

@video-ended:

1. Event, called if the video has ended @video-ended="videoEnded"

const videoEnded = (data) => {
  console.log("video ended at time: ", data.currentTime)
  console.log("video element ", data.video)
}

@video-fullscreen-change:

1. Event, event dispatcher for detecting fullscreen change @video-fullscreen-change="fullscreenChange"

const fullScreenAction = (fullScreenElement) => {
    if(fullScreenElement === null) {
        console.log("fullscreen is off")
    } else {
        console.log("fullscreen is on")
    }
}

@video-fullscreen-action:

1. Event, handling the fullscreen action of the player @video-fullscreen-action="fullScreenAction"

const fullScreenAction = (data) => {
    if(isFullscreen.value) {
        document.exitFullscreen();
    } else {
        document.getElementById("video-container").requestFullscreen()
    }
}

showTranscriptBlock:

1. value: true or false, type: Boolean

pass true, if you want to show the transcript block. To make transcripts work, your need to provide .txt files in the same path and base-filename like the passed subtitles prop.

previewImageLink:

1. value: 'poster.webp', type: String

poster image for the video player

link:

1. value: 'videoLink.m3u8', type: String

link on video in format m3u8

progress:

1. value: true or false, type: Boolean

it can turn on and off the sound of the video

it can show and hide the video control panel

subtitles:

1. value: array of object, for subtitles to append: object has link, lang

subtitles to add as tracks to the video example:

[{
  link: `https://url-to-your/subtitles.vtt`,
  label: 'English',
  lang: 'en'
}]

isMuted: 1 value: true or false, type: Boolean

it makes the video muted

autoplay:

1. value: true or false, type Boolean

it will set the native

Last release:

v1.0.9 - v1.0.14

• Fixes
• Small styling improvements

v1.0.9

• Fix sizes in fullscreen mode for video
• Hide transcript block completely when hidden

v1.0.8

• Add slots to inject own elements nearby video element
• Add prop for autoplay video

v1.0.7

• Add function to handle own logic for fullscreen

v1.0.6

• Small fixes
• Remove debug log

v1.0.5

• Load transcriptions additionally to subtitles
• Add styled transcription block for better readability
• Improve interaction and dynamic params

v1.0.4

• Make subtitles dynamic
• Add new switch to disable the subtitle block
• Fix some minor issues

v1.0.3

• Removed controls in favour of themable overlay by player.style.
• Updated hls library
• Added styled caption overlays. Added separate container to show all captions.