Responsive Video Player in MVC4.0


In this article I am showing how to develop a code for video playing sites in MVC 4.0 which can be used in many devices and it fits to exact screen size. Lets have look at it. The technology used here is MVC4.0 and ASP.net 4.0 with JQuery mobile.

Now a days adding a video to web-site is very easy, but if that web-site opened in small device other than Desktop or Laptop, will the video be played beyond the width of the screen.The answer is YES. I will show you , how to develop a responsive video Player in MVC 4.0 with the help of JQuery plugin fitvid.js

I am showing the CSS3 media queries code for responsive design.


@media only screen and (min-width:639px)
{
.title
{
font-family:'French Script MT';
font-weight:bold;
font-size:120px;
}
div span
{
display:block;
}
#mainContainer
{
margin-bottom:25%;
margin-right:25%;
margin-top:5%;
margin-left:30%;
}
.whiteText
{
color:#f4f4f4;
}
.Background
{
background: rgb(254,254,253); /* Old browsers */
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(254,254,253,1) 0%, rgba(220,227,196,1) 42%, rgba(174,191,118,1) 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(254,254,253,1)), color-stop(42%,rgba(220,227,196,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(174,191,118,1))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(254,254,253,1) 0%,rgba(220,227,196,1) 42%,rgba(174,191,118,1) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(254,254,253,1) 0%,rgba(220,227,196,1) 42%,rgba(174,191,118,1) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(254,254,253,1) 0%,rgba(220,227,196,1) 42%,rgba(174,191,118,1) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(254,254,253,1) 0%,rgba(220,227,196,1) 42%,rgba(174,191,118,1) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#fefefd', endColorstr='#aebf76',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */


}
.page
{
width:50%;
-webkit-transform:rotate(-6deg);/*Chrome and Safari*/
-moz-transform:rotate(-6deg); /*firefox*/
-ms-transform:rotate(-6deg); /*IE browser*/
-o-transform:rotate(-6deg);/*Opera*/
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%, rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%) !important; /* FF3.6+ */
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%,rgba(255,255,255,1)), color-stop(100%,rgba(255,255,255,0))); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
background: -o-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* IE10+ */
background: linear-gradient(to bottom, rgba(255,255,255,1) 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 100%); /* W3C */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#ffffff', endColorstr='#00ffffff',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
border:1px solid white;
}

.floatRight
{
float:right;
}

}
body {
background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADIAAAAyCAMAAAAp4XiDAAAAUVBMVEWFhYWDg4N3d3dtbW17e3t1dXWBgYGHh4d5eXlzc3OLi4ubm5uVlZWPj4+NjY19fX2JiYl/f39ra2uRkZGZmZlpaWmXl5dvb29xcXGTk5NnZ2c8TV1mAAAAG3RSTlNAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEAvEOwtAAAFVklEQVR4XpWWB67c2BUFb3g557T/hRo9/WUMZHlgr4Bg8Z4qQgQJlHI4A8SzFVrapvmTF9O7dmYRFZ60YiBhJRCgh1FYhiLAmdvX0CzTOpNE77ME0Zty/nWWzchDtiqrmQDeuv3powQ5ta2eN0FY0InkqDD73lT9c9lEzwUNqgFHs9VQce3TVClFCQrSTfOiYkVJQBmpbq2L6iZavPnAPcoU0dSw0SUTqz/GtrGuXfbyyBniKykOWQWGqwwMA7QiYAxi+IlPdqo+hYHnUt5ZPfnsHJyNiDtnpJyayNBkF6cWoYGAMY92U2hXHF/C1M8uP/ZtYdiuj26UdAdQQSXQErwSOMzt/XWRWAz5GuSBIkwG1H3FabJ2OsUOUhGC6tK4EMtJO0ttC6IBD3kM0ve0tJwMdSfjZo+EEISaeTr9P3wYrGjXqyC1krcKdhMpxEnt5JetoulscpyzhXN5FRpuPHvbeQaKxFAEB6EN+cYN6xD7RYGpXpNndMmZgM5Dcs3YSNFDHUo2LGfZuukSWyUYirJAdYbF3MfqEKmjM+I2EfhA94iG3L7uKrR+GdWD73ydlIB+6hgref1QTlmgmbM3/LeX5GI1Ux1RWpgxpLuZ2+I+IjzZ8wqE4nilvQdkUdfhzI5QDWy+kw5Wgg2pGpeEVeCCA7b85BO3F9DzxB3cdqvBzWcmzbyMiqhzuYqtHRVG2y4x+KOlnyqla8AoWWpuBoYRxzXrfKuILl6SfiWCbjxoZJUaCBj1CjH7GIaDbc9kqBY3W/Rgjda1iqQcOJu2WW+76pZC9QG7M00dffe9hNnseupFL53r8F7YHSwJWUKP2q+k7RdsxyOB11n0xtOvnW4irMMFNV4H0uqwS5ExsmP9AxbDTc9JwgneAT5vTiUSm1E7BSflSt3bfa1tv8Di3R8n3Af7MNWzs49hmauE2wP+ttrq+AsWpFG2awvsuOqbipWHgtuvuaAE+A1Z/7gC9hesnr+7wqCwG8c5yAg3AL1fm8T9AZtp/bbJGwl1pNrE7RuOX7PeMRUERVaPpEs+yqeoSmuOlokqw49pgomjLeh7icHNlG19yjs6XXOMedYm5xH2YxpV2tc0Ro2jJfxC50ApuxGob7lMsxfTbeUv07TyYxpeLucEH1gNd4IKH2LAg5TdVhlCafZvpskfncCfx8pOhJzd76bJWeYFnFciwcYfubRc12Ip/ppIhA1/mSZ/RxjFDrJC5xifFjJpY2Xl5zXdguFqYyTR1zSp1Y9p+tktDYYSNflcxI0iyO4TPBdlRcpeqjK/piF5bklq77VSEaA+z8qmJTFzIWiitbnzR794USKBUaT0NTEsVjZqLaFVqJoPN9ODG70IPbfBHKK+/q/AWR0tJzYHRULOa4MP+W/HfGadZUbfw177G7j/OGbIs8TahLyynl4X4RinF793Oz+BU0saXtUHrVBFT/DnA3ctNPoGbs4hRIjTok8i+algT1lTHi4SxFvONKNrgQFAq2/gFnWMXgwffgYMJpiKYkmW3tTg3ZQ9Jq+f8XN+A5eeUKHWvJWJ2sgJ1Sop+wwhqFVijqWaJhwtD8MNlSBeWNNWTa5Z5kPZw5+LbVT99wqTdx29lMUH4OIG/D86ruKEauBjvH5xy6um/Sfj7ei6UUVk4AIl3MyD4MSSTOFgSwsH/QJWaQ5as7ZcmgBZkzjjU1UrQ74ci1gWBCSGHtuV1H2mhSnO3Wp/3fEV5a+4wz//6qy8JxjZsmxxy5+4w9CDNJY09T072iKG0EnOS0arEYgXqYnXcYHwjTtUNAcMelOd4xpkoqiTYICWFq0JSiPfPDQdnt+4/wuqcXY47QILbgAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==);
}

video {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}

.container {
width: 70%;
padding: 5%;
margin:0px auto;
background:#fff;
box-shadow: 0 5px 5px rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
}

.vendor {
padding: 2%;
background: #d1eed1;
margin-bottom: 2em;
}

.unsupported {
background: #fddfde;
}



Following is the HTML code

code


Please add this code if your are unable get the Jquery plugin



/*global jQuery */
/*jshint multistr:true browser:true */
/*!
* FitVids 1.0
*
* Copyright 2011, Chris Coyier - http://css-tricks.com + Dave Rupert - http://daverupert.com
* Credit to Thierry Koblentz - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video/
* Released under the WTFPL license - http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
*
* Date: Thu Sept 01 18:00:00 2011 -0500
*/

(function( $ ){

"use strict";

$.fn.fitVids = function( options ) {
var settings = {
customSelector: null
};

var div = document.createElement('div'),
ref = document.getElementsByTagName('base')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];

div.className = 'fit-vids-style';
div.innerHTML = '­';

ref.parentNode.insertBefore(div,ref);

if ( options ) {
$.extend( settings, options );
}

return this.each(function(){
var selectors = [
"iframe[src*='player.vimeo.com']",
"iframe[src*='youtube.com']",
"iframe[src*='youtube-nocookie.com']",
"iframe[src*='kickstarter.com']",
"object",
"embed"
];

if (settings.customSelector) {
selectors.push(settings.customSelector);
}

var $allVideos = $(this).find(selectors.join(','));

$allVideos.each(function(){
var $this = $(this);
if (this.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'embed' && $this.parent('object').length || $this.parent('.fluid-width-video-wrapper').length) { return; }
var height = ( this.tagName.toLowerCase() === 'object' || ($this.attr('height') && !isNaN(parseInt($this.attr('height'), 10))) ) ? parseInt($this.attr('height'), 10) : $this.height(),
width = !isNaN(parseInt($this.attr('width'), 10)) ? parseInt($this.attr('width'), 10) : $this.width(),
aspectRatio = height / width;
if(!$this.attr('id')){
var videoID = 'fitvid' + Math.floor(Math.random()*999999);
$this.attr('id', videoID);
}
$this.wrap('
').parent('.fluid-width-video-wrapper').css('padding-top', (aspectRatio * 100)+"%");
$this.removeAttr('height').removeAttr('width');
});
});
};
})( jQuery );





By this way responsive video player can be acheived.
Please feel free to comment.

Below are the video's for different screen sizes.

mobile video player

TAB video Player

Video player,whose screen is bigger than desktop

Regards,
Arun
MCTS,MCSD


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