Basic player

This example plays a Big Buck Bunny HLS stream using a minimal player setup.

Open Video UI

Tip: open your browser's developer console and use the player and THEOplayer variables to interact with this demo.

Open Video UI is provided by <theoplayer-default-ui>, configured through its configuration and source attributes.

Code

demo.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Basic player</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, viewport-fit=cover" />
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com" />
    <link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin />
    <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Sans:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet" />
    <style>
      html,
      body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
      }

      theoplayer-default-ui:not(:defined) {
        display: inline-block;
        box-sizing: border-box;
      }

      theoplayer-default-ui {
        width: 100%;
        aspect-ratio: 16 / 9;
        font-family: 'Noto Sans', sans-serif;
        background: #000;
      }
    </style>
    <script src="https://cdn.theoplayer.com/dash/theoplayer/THEOplayer.js"></script>
    <script nomodule src="https://unpkg.com/@theoplayer/web-ui@2/polyfills"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/@theoplayer/web-ui@2"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!--
      libraryLocation: For demonstration purposes, we use the theoplayer.com CDN.
      For production use, we recommend hosting THEOplayer yourself
      and changing this (as well as the <script> tags above)
      to point to THEOplayer's location on your own website.

      licenseUrl: Change this to point to your THEOplayer license file.
      Alternatively, replace it with a "license" property whose value is your THEOplayer license itself.
    -->
    <theoplayer-default-ui
      configuration='{"libraryLocation":"https://cdn.theoplayer.com/dash/theoplayer/","licenseUrl":"../../../../theoplayer-license.txt"}'
      source='{"sources":{"src":"https://cdn.theoplayer.com/video/big_buck_bunny/big_buck_bunny_metadata.m3u8","type":"application/x-mpegurl"},"poster":"https://cdn.theoplayer.com/video/big_buck_bunny/poster.jpg","metadata":{"title":"Big Buck Bunny"}}'
    ></theoplayer-default-ui>
    <script src="../utils.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Legacy UI

The legacy video.js-based UI is created with new THEOplayer.Player().

Code

legacy-ui.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Basic player (legacy UI)</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <style>
      html,
      body {
        margin: 0;
        padding: 0;
      }

      .theoplayer-skin {
        width: 100%;
      }
    </style>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.theoplayer.com/dash/theoplayer/ui.css" />
    <script src="https://cdn.theoplayer.com/dash/theoplayer/THEOplayer.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="player" class="video-js theoplayer-skin vjs-16-9"></div>
    <script>
      var player = new THEOplayer.Player(document.querySelector('#player'), {
        // For demonstration purposes, we use the theoplayer.com CDN.
        // For production use, we recommend hosting THEOplayer yourself
        // and changing this (as well as the <script> and <link> tags above)
        // to point to THEOplayer's location on your own website.
        libraryLocation: 'https://cdn.theoplayer.com/dash/theoplayer/',
        // Change this property to point to your THEOplayer license file:
        licenseUrl: '../../../../theoplayer-license.txt',
        // Alternatively, uncomment this, change its value to your THEOplayer license, and remove "licenseUrl":
        // license: 'your_theoplayer_license',
      });
      player.source = {
        sources: [
          {
            src: '//cdn.theoplayer.com/video/big_buck_bunny/big_buck_bunny_metadata.m3u8',
            type: 'application/x-mpegurl',
          },
        ],
      };
    </script>
  </body>
</html>