Vidazor

Vidazor = Video + Blazor | The HTML5 Video API For Blazor - Vidazor provides a C#/Blazor interface to the HTML5 video API that you normally can only access with JavaScript. The docs are available at https://github.com/AradAral/Vidazor


Keywords
Blazor, Video, WebAssembly, HTML5, blazor-client, blazor-component, blazor-wasm, blazor-webassembly, html5video, html5videoapi
License
MIT
Install
Install-Package Vidazor -Version 1.0.5

Documentation

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What Is Vidazor? NuGet version (Vidazor)

Vidazor = Video + Blazor

Vidazor is a Blazor library (RCL) that allows you to seamlessly work with the HTML5 video API, which normally you'd have to work with manually via JS interop.

Checkout the demo here

Vidazor currently only supports Blazor WebAssembly, due to the fact that it uses JSInProcessRuntime, it won't work on Blazor Server projects at the moment.

Getting Setup

You can set up Vidazor in your project in just 3 simple steps:

1. Install the NuGet package:

You can install the package via NuGet Package Manager, just search for "Vidazor".

Or if running commands is your thing, you can:

Install-Package Vidazor

Or via the .NET CLI:

dotnet add package Vidazor

2. Add the imports:

After having installed the package, add the following @using directives either to the _Imports.razor file in your Blazor project, or if you intend to use Vidazor in a specific component, add the directives to the top of that component:

@using Vidazor
@using Vidazor.Types

3. Start using the <VidazorVideo> component with a reference:

Now you're all set up! You can start using Vidazor! In your components, use the <VidazorVideo> tag, and reference the component to a private field. Through the private field, you can access the properties and methods that Vidazor offers.

<VidazorVideo @ref="video" OnTimeUpdate="@(() => Console.WriteLine($"Current time is: {video.CurrentTime}"))">
    <source src="/sample.mp4" />
</VidazorVideo>

<button type="button" @onclick="() => video.Play()">Play</button>
<button type="button" @onclick="() => video.Pause()">Pause</button>
<button type="button" @onclick="() => video.Muted = !video.Muted">Toggle Sound</button>

@code {
    VidazorVideo video;
}

Using HTML attributes on the <video> tag:

Vidazor supports attribute splatting, which means you can pass in any number of HTML attributes you want to the <VidazorVideo> component, and those attributes will then be captured and splatted onto the <video> element when the component is rendered.

<VidazorVideo @ref="video" class="foo bar" preload="auto">
    <source src="/sample.mp4" />
</VidazorVideo>

HTML ouput:

<video class="foo bar" preload="auto">
    <source src="/sample.mp4" />
</video>

Features:

Vidazor provides nearly all the methods, properties, and events that the JavaScript HTMLMediaElement object provides:

Methods:

The following methods can be called easily through the VidazorVideo object:

Vidazor Method JavaScript Equivalent Description
.Play() .play() Plays the video playback.
.Pause() .pause() Pauses the video playback.
.Load() .load() Reloads the video.
.CanPlayType(string) .canPlayType(string) Checks if the browser can play a video with the specified MIME media type.

Properties:

The following properties can be accessed easily through the VidazorVideo object:

Vidazor Property Data Type Get & Set JavaScript Equivalent Description
.Autoplay bool .autoplay Gets or sets a Boolean indicating whether playback automatically begins as soon as enough of the video is available to do so without interruption.
.Buffered TimeRange[] Read-only .buffered Gets an array of TimeRange objects representing the parts of the video that the browser has buffered (i.e. loaded).
.Controls TimeRange[] .controls Gets or sets a Boolean reflecting the "controls" HTML attribute, indicating whether browser's default UI controls are displayed for the video.
.CrossOrigin string .crossorigin Gets or sets the CORS settings of the video.
.CurrentSrc string Read-only .currentSrc Gets the source URL of the current video. Tip: To set the source URL, use the Src property.
.CurrentTime double .currentTime Gets or sets a double indicating the current playback time in seconds.
.DefaultMuted bool .defaultMuted Gets or sets a Boolean reflecting the "muted" HTML attribute, indicating whether the video is muted by default.
.DefaultPlaybackRate double .defaultPlaybackRate Gets or sets a double indicating the default playback rate (i.e. speed) for the video.
.Duration double Read-only .duration Gets a double indicating the total length of the video in seconds.
.Ended bool Read-only .ended Gets a Boolean indicating whether the video has ended.
.Loop bool .loop Gets or sets a Boolean reflecting the "loop" HTML attribute, indicating whether the video should start over again after it has ended.
.MediaGroup string .mediaGroup Gets or sets the name of the media group that the video belongs to.
.Muted bool .muted Gets or sets a Boolean indicating whether the video is muted or not.
.NetworkState NetworkdState enum Read-only .networkState Gets a NetworkState enum indicating the current state of fetching the media over the network.
.Paused bool Read-only .paused Gets a Boolean indicating whether the video is paused or not.
.PlaybackRate double .playbackRate Gets or sets a double indicating the current playback rate (i.e. speed) of the video. Can be a negative number, which indicates backward playback.
.Played TimeRange[] Read-only .played Gets an array of TimeRange objects representing the parts of the video that has been played by the user.
.Preload Preload enum .preload Gets or sets a Preload enum reflecting the "preload" HTML attribute, indicating what content should be loaded before the video is played by the user.
.ReadyState ReadyState enum Read-only .readyState Gets a ReadyState enum indicating the readiness state of the video (e.g. whether enough of the video has been downloaded to be able to play the video, etc.)
.Seekable TimeRange[] Read-only .seekable Gets an array of TimeRange objects representing the parts of the video that the user can seek to (i.e. move the playback position to).
.Seeking bool Read-only .seeking Gets a Boolean indicating whether the user is currently seeking in the video.
.Src string .src Gets or sets a URL reflecting the "src" HTML attribute, indicating the source URL of the video.
.Volume double .volume Gets or sets a double indicating the volume level, from 0.0 (silent) to 1.0 (loudest).

Events:

The following events can be hooked into through the <VidazorVideo> component. The type of all the events is the standard Blazor EventCallback struct:

Vidazor Event JavaScript Equivalent Description
OnAbort abort Fires when the loading of a video is aborted.
OnCanPlay canplay Fires when the browser can start playing the video, but estimates that it will have to stop for further buffering (i.e. loading).
OnCanPlayThrough canplaythrough Fires when the browser can play through the video without stopping for buffering (i.e. loading).
OnDurationChange durationchange Fires when the duration of the video is updated.
OnEmptied emptied Fires when the current playlist is empty.
OnEnded ended Fires when the video has finished, and no further data is available.
OnError error Fires when the video could not be loaded due to an error.
OnLoadedData loadeddata Fires when the browser has loaded the current frame of the video.
OnLoadedMetadata loadedmetadata Fires when the browser has loaded the video's metadata (e.g. length, etc.)
OnLoadStart loadstart Fires when the browser has started to load the video.
OnPause pause Fires when the video has been paused.
OnPlay play Fires when the video has been started or is no longer paused.
OnPlaying playing Fires when the video has been started to play after having been paused OR stopped for buffering (i.e. loading).
OnProgress progress Fires preiodically when the browser loads the video.
OnRateChanged ratechanged Fires when the playback rate (i.e. speed) of the video has changed.
OnSeeked seeked Fires when the user has finished moving/skipping to a new position in the video.
OnSeeking seeking Fires when the user begins moving/skipping to a new position in the video.
OnStalled stalled Fires when the browser is trying to get media data, but data is unexpectedly not forthcoming.
OnSuspend suspend Fires when the browser is intentionally not getting media data.
OnTimeUpdate timeupdate Fires when the current time has changed.
OnVolumeChange volumechange Fires when the volume level has been changed.
OnWaiting waiting Fires when the video stops because it needs to buffer (i.e. load) the next frame.

Copyright and License

This software is released under the MIT license.