I'm looking to place a video in an HTML5 page that will begin playing on page-load, and once completed, loop back to the beginning without a break. The video should also NOT have any controls associated with it, and either be compatible with all 'modern' browsers, or have the option of a polyfill.
Previously I would have done this via Flash and FLVPlayback, but I would prefer to steer clear of Flash in the HTML5 sphere. I'm thinking I could use javascript's setTimeout to create a smooth loop, but what should I use to embed the video itself? Is there something out there that will stream the video the way FLVPlayback would?
4 Answers
The loop attribute should do it:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted> <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" /> Your browser does not support the video tag. </video> The addition of the unintuitive muted attribute is required by Chrome as documented on their dev site.
Should you have a problem with the loop attribute (as we had in the past), listen to the videoEnd event and call the play() method when it fires.
Note1: I'm not sure about the behavior on Apple's iPad/iPhone, because they have some restrictions against autoplay.
Note2: loop="true" and autoplay="autoplay" are deprecated
As of April 2018, Chrome (along with several other major browsers) now require the muted attribute too.
Therefore, you should use
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted> <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> </video> For iPhone it works if you add also playsinline so:
<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop muted playsinline> <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" /> </video> You can do this the following two ways:
1) Using loop attribute in video element (mentioned in the first answer):
2) and you can use the ended media event:
window.addEventListener('load', function(){ var newVideo = document.getElementById('videoElementId'); newVideo.addEventListener('ended', function() { this.currentTime = 0; this.play(); }, false); newVideo.play(); }); 
