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Two Simultaneous Videos

Jaap Murre

This demo shows how you can show two videos simultaneously or as is the case here, the same video in two different positions.


This script also demonstrates how you can hide the controls by accessing VideoElementJS styles and how to completely disable the keyboard short-cuts to control video playing.

Chapter 10

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var b1, b2, b3, cover, options, advanced_options;
                
main = new Box();

b1 = addblock("center","top",100,25)
     .text("Two snakes");  
             
b2 = addblock("left","center",30,20);
b3 = addblock("right","center",30,20);

// Cover player until it is playing to hide initial startup stuff 
cover2 = addblock("left","center",32,32,"white");
cover3 = addblock("right","center",32,32,"white");

var video_options = {
        autoplay: true              // Start right away
    },
    advanced_options = {
        clickToPlayPause: false,    // Disable click                    
		features: [],               // No controls visible (Play etc.)
		pauseOtherPlayers: false,   // Allow two or more players
		enableKeyboard: false       // No keyboard shortcuts
    };

b2.setvideo('animated_snake_moving_1',100,100,video_options,"snake1",advanced_options);
query(".mejs__container",b2.node).style("background-color","white"); // no black background
query(".mejs__controls",b2.node).style("display","none"); // just in case: hide controls

// Make sure the second video player has a different ID, here 'snake2'
b3.setvideo('animated_snake_moving_1',100,100,video_options,"snake2",advanced_options);
query(".mejs__container",b3.node).style("background-color","white");
query(".mejs__controls",b3.node).style("display","none");

b3.await('videoplaying'); // Starting a video may take some time, so we wait for this

cover2.style("background-color","transparent"); // Then, we remove the cover on playing
cover3.style("background-color","transparent"); 

await("videoended"); // We finish up as soon as the first player has ended

b2.deletevideo(); // Delete the players; we will (re)create new ones all the time
b3.deletevideo();

console.log("blocks: ",b2,b3);

b2.clear(); // We clear the block
b3.clear();                

await(500);

b1.text("That's all folks!");

await(2000);

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