I'm making a random order video player, adapting code from here but the same video just keeps playing, even though I can see (from text above the video) that the random ordering is working. Live version is here.
Is the problem with the appendChild meaning the new video is end of a list but the first in list keeps playing? I tried replaceChild but that didn't work.
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
var videos = [
[{type:'mp4', 'src':'carlos/one-carlostest.mp4'}],
[{type:'mp4', 'src':'carlos/two-carlostest.mp4'}],
[{type:'mp4', 'src':'carlos/three-carlostest.mp4'}],
[{type:'mp4', 'src':'carlos/four-carlostest.mp4'}],
[{type:'mp4', 'src':'carlos/five-carlostest.mp4'}]
];
// selecting random item from array as first to be played
var randomitem = videos[Math.floor(Math.random()*videos.length)];
// This function adds a new video source (dynamic) in the video html tag
function videoadd(element, src, type) {
var source = document.createElement('source');
source.src = src;
source.type = type;
element.appendChild(source);
}
// this function fires the video for particular video tag
function newvideo(src){
var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo");
videoadd(vid,src ,'video/ogg');
vid.autoplay = true;
vid.load();
vid.play();
}
// function call
newvideo(randomitem[0].src)
// Added an event listener so that everytime the video finishes ,a new video is loaded from array
document.getElementById('myVideo').addEventListener('ended',handler,false);
function handler(){
var newRandom = videos[Math.floor(Math.random()*videos.length)];
newvideo(newRandom[0].src)
document.getElementById("monitor").innerHTML = "randomitem is " + newRandom[0].src;
}
})
</script>
Also, if anyone can tell me why the autoplay never works that'd be appreciated, though it's the least of my problems.
I have kinda found this solution for your video playing one after other. now in your JS file, now you just will need to add your video src path.
var vidElement = document.getElementById('video');
var vidSources = [
"https://lutins.co.uk/carlos/one-carlostest.mp4",
"http://www.w3schools.com/html/movie.mp4"
];
var activeVideo = Math.floor((Math.random() * vidSources.length));
vidElement.src = vidSources[activeVideo];
vidElement.addEventListener('ended', function(e) {
// update the active video index
activeVideo = (++activeVideo) % vidSources.length;
if(activeVideo === vidSources.length){
activeVideo = 0;
}
// update the video source and play
vidElement.src = vidSources[activeVideo];
vidElement.play();
});video {
width:350px;
} <p>wowww you got it!</p>
<video src="https://lutins.co.uk/carlos/one-carlostest.mp4" id="video" autoplay muted playsinline></video>Change the randomIt variable into a callback, only this way, it will generate new random number each time it get call.
// I have change randomitem into a function with ofcourse a proper name
var getRandomItem = function() {
return videos[Math.floor(Math.random()*videos.length)];
}You should also call it properly like this:
//newvideo(randomitem[0].src) -> change it to
newvideo(getrandomItem().src)There might also other adjustments requires for your code to work.