Play/pause HTML 5 video using JQuery

I am trying to control HTML5 videos using JQuery. I have two clips in a tabbed interface, there are six tabs in total, the others just have images. I am trying to make the video clips play when their tab is clicked and then stop when any of the others are clicked.

This must be a simple thing to do but I cant seem to get it to work, the code I am using to play the video is:

$('#playMovie1').click(function(){
  $('#movie1').play();
      });

I have read that the video element needs to be exposed in a function to be able to control it but can't find an example. I am able to make it work using JS:

document.getElementById('movie1').play();

Any advice would be great. Thanks

Your solution shows the issue here -- play is not a jQuery function but a function of the DOM element. You therefore need to call it upon the DOM element. You give an example of how to do this with the native DOM functions. The jQuery equivalent -- if you wanted to do this to fit in with an existing jQuery selection -- would be $('#videoId').get(0).play(). (get gets the native DOM element from the jQuery selection.)

You can do

$('video').trigger('play');
$('video').trigger('pause');

This is how I managed to make it work:

jQuery( document ).ready(function($) {
    $('.myHTMLvideo').click(function() {
        this.paused ? this.play() : this.pause();
    });
});

All my HTML5

Why do you need to use jQuery? Your proposed solution works, and it's probably faster than constructing a jQuery object.

document.getElementById('videoId').play();

For pausing multiple videos I have found that this works nicely:

$("video").each(function(){
    $(this).get(0).pause();
});

This can be put into a click function which is quite handy.

As an extension of lonesomeday's answer, you can also use

$('#playMovie1').click(function(){
    $('#movie1')[0].play();
});

Notice that there is no get() or eq() jQuery function called. DOM's array used to call play() function. It's a shortcut to keep in mind.

I like this one:

$('video').click(function(){
    this[this.paused ? 'play' : 'pause']();
});

Hope it helps.

This is the easy methods we can use

on jquery button click function

$("#button").click(function(event){
    $('video').trigger('play');
    $('video').trigger('pause');
}

Thanks

I use FancyBox and jQuery to embedd a video. Give it an ID.

Perhaps not the BEST solution could toggle play/pause differently - but easy for me and IT WORKS! :)

In the

`

<input type="hidden" id="current_video_playing">

<input type="hidden" id="current_video_status" value="playing">

<video id="video-1523" autobuffer="false" src="movie.mp4"></video>

<script>

// Play Pause with spacebar

$(document).keypress(function(e) { 

    theVideo = document.getElementById('current_video_playing').value

    if (e.which == 32) {

        if (document.getElementById('current_video_status').value == 'playing') {

            document.getElementById(theVideo).pause();

            document.getElementById('current_video_status').value = 'paused'

        } else {

            document.getElementById('current_video_status').value = 'playing'

            document.getElementById(theVideo).play();

        }

    }

});

</script>`

By JQuery using selectors

$("video_selector").trigger('play');  
$("video_selector").trigger('pause');
$("div.video:first").trigger('play');$("div.video:first").trigger('pause');
$("#video_ID").trigger('play');$("#video_ID").trigger('pause');

By Javascript using ID

video_ID.play();  video_ID.pause();

OR

document.getElementById('video_ID').play();  document.getElementById('video_ID').pause();

Found the answer here @ToolmakerSteve, but had to fine tune this way: To pause all

$('video').each(function(index){
	$(this).get(0).pause();
});

or to play all

$('video').each(function(index){
	$(this).get(0).play();
});

Just as a note, make sure you check if the browser supports the video function, before you try to invoke it:

if($('#movie1')[0].play)
    $('#movie1')[0].play();

That will prevent JavaScript errors on browsers that don't support the video tag.

var vid = document.getElementById("myVideo"); 
function playVid() { 
  vid.play(); 
} 
function pauseVid() { 
  vid.pause(); 
} 

<video id="myVideo" width="320" height="176">
  <source src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/BigBuckBunny.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
</video>
<button onclick="playVid()" type="button">Play Video</button>
<button onclick="pauseVid()" type="button">Pause Video</button><br> 

use this.. $('#video1').attr({'autoplay':'true'});

I also made it work like this:

$(window).scroll(function() {
    if($(window).scrollTop() > 0)
        document.querySelector('#video').pause();
    else
        document.querySelector('#video').play();
});

@loneSomeday explained it beautifully , here one solution which might also give you good idea how to achieve play/pause functionality

play/pause of video on click

<video style="min-width: 100%; min-height: 100%; " id="vid" width="auto" height="auto" controls autoplay="true" loop="loop" preload="auto" muted="muted">
<source src="video/sample.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="video/sample.ogg" type="video/ogg">
</video>
<script> 
$(document).ready(function(){
document.getElementById('vid').play(); });
</script> 

    enter code here
<form class="md-form" action="#">
  <div class="file-field">
    <div class="btn btn-primary btn-sm float-left">
      <span>Choose files</span>
      <input type="file" multiple>
    </div>
    <div class="file-path-wrapper">
      <input class="file-path validate" type="text" placeholder="Upload one or more files">
    </div>
  </div>
</form>

<video  width="320" height="240" id="keerthan"></video>

<button onclick="playVid()" type="button">Play Video</button>
<button onclick="pauseVid()" type="button">Pause Video</button> 
<script>
    (function localFileVideoPlayer() {
	
  var playSelectedFile = function (event) {
    var file = this.files[0]
    var type = file.type
    var videoNode = document.querySelector('video')
  



    var fileURL = URL.createObjectURL(file)
    videoNode.src = fileURL
  }
  var inputNode = document.querySelector('input')
  inputNode.addEventListener('change', playSelectedFile, false)
})()
function playVid() { 
  keerthan.play(); 
} 

function pauseVid() { 
  keerthan.pause(); 
} 
    
</script>