# Plyr A simple, accessible and customizable HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo media player. [Checkout the demo](https://plyr.io) [![Image of Plyr](https://cdn.plyr.io/static/plyr-v1.5.jpg)](https://plyr.io) ## Why? We wanted a lightweight, accessible and customizable media player that supports [*modern*](#browser-support) browsers. Sure, there are many other players out there but we wanted to keep things simple, using the right elements for the job. ## Features - **Accessible** - full support for VTT captions and screen readers - **Lightweight** - under 10KB minified and gzipped - **[Customisable](#html)** - make the player look how you want with the markup you want - **Semantic** - uses the *right* elements. `` for volume and `` for progress and well, `

Option	Type	Default	Description
`enabled`	Boolean	`true`	Completely disable Plyr. This would allow you to do a User Agent check or similar to programmatically enable or disable Plyr for a certain UA. Example below.
`html`	String	`See controls.md`	See controls.md for more info on how the html needs to be structured.
`controls`	Array	`["restart", "rewind", "play", "fast-forward", "current-time", "duration", "mute", "volume", "captions", "fullscreen"]`	Toggle which control elements you would like to display when using the default controls html. If you specify a `html` option, this is redundant. The default value is to display everything.
`i18n`	Object	`See controls.md`	Used for internationalization (i18n) of the tooltips/labels within the buttons.
`iconPrefix`	String	`icon`	Specify the id prefix for the icons used in the default controls (e.g. "icon-play" would be "icon"). This is to prevent clashes if you're using your own SVG defs file but with the default controls. Most people can ignore this option.
`debug`	Boolean	`false`	Display debugging information on what Plyr is doing.
`autoplay`	Boolean	`false`	Autoplay the media on load. This is generally advised against on UX grounds. It is also disabled on iOS (an Apple limitation).
`seekTime`	Number	`10`	The time, in seconds, to seek when a user hits fast forward or rewind.
`volume`	Number	`5`	A number, between 1 and 10, representing the initial volume of the player.
`click`	Boolean	`true`	Click (or tap) will toggle pause/play of a `<video>`.
`tooltips`	Object	`{ controls: false, seek: true }`	controls: Display control labels as tooltips on :hover & :focus (by default, the labels are screen reader only). seek: Display a seek tooltip to indicate on click where the media would seek to.
`duration`	Number	`null`	Specify a custom duration.
`displayDuration`	Boolean	`true`	Displays the duration of the media on the "metadataloaded" event (on startup) in the current time display. This will only work if the `preload` attribute is not set to `none` (or is not set at all) and you choose not to display the duration (see `controls` option).
`selectors`	Object	—	See `plyr.js` in `/src` for more info. You probably don't need to change any of these.
`listeners`	Object	—	Allows early binding of event listeners to the controls. See `controls` above for list of controls and see `plyr.js` in `/src` for more info.
`classes`	Object	—	Similar to above, these are the classes added to the player when state changes occur.
`captions`	Object	—	One property `defaultActive` which toggles if captions should be on by default. The default value is `false`.
`fullscreen`	Object	—	See below
`storage`	Object	—	Two properties; `enabled` which toggles if local storage should be enabled (if the browser supports it). The default value is `true`. This enables storing user settings, currently it only stores volume but more will be added later. The second property `key` is the key used for the local storage. The default is `plyr_volume` until more settings are stored.

Option	Type	Default	Description
`enabled`	Boolean	`true`	Toggles if fullscreen should be enabled (if the browser supports it).
`fallback`	Boolean	`true`	Enable a full viewport view for older browsers.
`hideControls`	Boolean	`true`	Hide the controls when fullscreen is active and the video is playing, after 1s. The controls reappear on hover of the progress bar (mouse), focusing a child control or pausing the video (by tap/click of video if `click` is `true`).
`allowAudio`	Boolean	`false`	Allow audio play to toggle fullscreen. This will be more useful later when posters are supported.

Method	Parameters	Description
`play()`	—	Plays the media
`pause()`	—	Pauses the media
`restart()`	—	Restarts playback
`rewind(...)`	Number	Rewinds by the provided parameter, in seconds. If no parameter is provided, the default seekInterval is used (10 seconds).
`forward(...)`	Number	Fast forwards by the provided parameter, in seconds. If no parameter is provided, the default seekInterval is used (10 seconds).
`seek(...)`	Number	Seeks the media to the provided parameter, time in seconds.
`setVolume(...)`	Number	Sets the player volume to the provided parameter. The value should be between 0 (muted) and 10 (loudest). If no parameter is provided, the default volume is used (5). Values over 10 are ignored.
`togglePlay()`	Boolean	Toggles playback for the player based on either the boolean argument or it's current state.
`toggleMute()`	—	Toggles mute for the player.
`toggleCaptions()`	—	Toggles whether captions are enabled.
`toggleFullscreen()`	Event	Toggles fullscreen. This can only be initiated by a user gesture due to browser security, i.e. a user event such as click.
`isFullscreen()`	—	Boolean returned if the player is in fullscreen.
`support(...)`	String	Determine if a player supports a certain MIME type. This is not supported for embedded content (YouTube).
`source(...)`	Object or undefined	Get/Set the media source. array .source([ { src: "/path/to/video.webm", type: "video/webm", ...more attributes... }, { src: "/path/to/video.mp4", type: "video/mp4", ...more attributes... } ])` This will inject a child `source` element for every element in the array with the specified attributes. `src` is the only required attribute although adding `type` is recommended as it helps the browser decide which file to download and play. YouTube Currently this API method only accepts a YouTube ID when used with a YouTube player. I will add URL support soon, along with being able to swap between types (e.g. YouTube to Audio or Video and vice versa.) undefined Returns the current media source url. Works for both native videos and embeds.
`poster(...)`	String	Set the poster url. This is supported for the `video` element only.
`destroy()`	—	Destroys the plyr UI and any media event listeners, effectively restoring to the previous state before `setup()` was called.
`restore()`	—	Reverses the effects of the `destroy()` method, restoring the UI and listeners.

Key	Type	Description
`type`	String	Options are `video`, `audio`, `youtube` and `vimeo`
`title`	String	Title of the new media. Used for the aria labelling.
`sources`	Array	This is an array of sources. `type` is optional for YouTube and Vimeo when specifying an array. For YouTube and Vimeo media, only the video ID must be passed as the source as shown above. The keys of this object are mapped directly to HTML attributes so more can be added to the object if required.
`poster`	String	URL for the poster image (video only).
`tracks`	Array	An array of track objects. Each element in the array is mapped directly to a track element and any keys mapped directly to HTML attributes so as in the example above, it will render as ``. Booleans are converted to HTML5 value-less attributes.

Event name	HTML5 only	Description
`canplay`	✔	Sent when enough data is available that the media can be played, at least for a couple of frames. This corresponds to the `HAVE_ENOUGH_DATA` `readyState`.
`canplaythrough`		Sent when the ready state changes to `CAN_PLAY_THROUGH`, indicating that the entire media can be played without interruption, assuming the download rate remains at least at the current level. Note: Manually setting the `currentTime` will eventually fire a `canplaythrough` event in firefox. Other browsers might not fire this event.
`emptied`	✔	The media has become empty; for example, this event is sent if the media has already been loaded (or partially loaded), and the `load()` method is called to reload it.
`ended`		Sent when playback completes.
`error`	✔	Sent when an error occurs. The element's `error` attribute contains more information.
`loadeddata`	✔	The first frame of the media has finished loading.
`loadedmetadata`	✔	The media's metadata has finished loading; all attributes now contain as much useful information as they're going to.
`loadstart`	✔	Sent when loading of the media begins.
`pause`		Sent when playback is paused.
`play`		Sent when playback of the media starts after having been paused; that is, when playback is resumed after a prior `pause` event.
`playing`		Sent when the media begins to play (either for the first time, after having been paused, or after ending and then restarting).
`progress`		Sent periodically to inform interested parties of progress downloading the media. Information about the current amount of the media that has been downloaded is available in the media element's `buffered` attribute.
`seeked`	✔	Sent when a seek operation completes.
`seeking`	✔	Sent when a seek operation begins.
`stalled`	✔	Sent when the user agent is trying to fetch media data, but data is unexpectedly not forthcoming.
`timeupdate`		The time indicated by the element's `currentTime` attribute has changed.
`volumechange`		Sent when the audio volume changes (both when the volume is set and when the `muted` attribute is changed).
`waiting`	✔	Sent when the requested operation (such as playback) is delayed pending the completion of another operation (such as a seek).
`enterfullscreen`		User enters fullscreen (either the proper fullscreen or full-window fallback for older browsers)
`exitfullscreen`		User exits fullscreen
`captionsenabled`		Captions toggled on
`captionsdisabled`		Captions toggled off
`ready`		Triggered when initial setup is done or a source change has occurred.

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