hugo-video

About

This Hugo theme component provides a shortcode: video for embedding videos using the HTML video element.

It comes with english, french, german and russian localization. Other languages welcome! Send your pull request.

Features

This shortcode uses Hugo Page Resources. The video to display must be placed in the page bundle.

The shortcode takes one mandatory argument: the filename of the video file to display, without the extension. It detects automatically if several versions of the file exists in the page bundle, and add accordingly the multiple src tags. When an image file with the same filename is also present in the page bundle, it is automatically used as a poster frame.

When the browser doesn't support the HTML video element, the shortcode displays a localized notice allowing the video download for local playing.

Following video formats are supported:

• MP4 (extension .mp4 or .m4v)
• WebM, (extension .webm)
• Ogg, (extension .ogv)

Default values:

• Browser's default controls are displayed (controls attribute is always included)
• Video can be preloaded (preload="auto" attribute is always included)
• Video width is 100% (width="100%" attribute is included); this can be changed by indicating the desired width when calling the shortcode, see example below)
• Following video attributes can be set: muted="true", autoplay="true" and loop="true". Credits goes to Tom McKenzie for this feature
• Default settings are used for other video attributes

When no video file of the given name is found in the supported format (see above), the shortcode intentionally fails with a No valid video file with filename <filename> found. error.

Usage

1. Add the hugo-video as a submodule to be able to get upstream changes later

   git submodule add https://github.com/martignoni/hugo-video.git themes/hugo-video

2. Add hugo-video as the left-most element of the theme list variable in your site's or theme's configuration file config.yaml or config.toml. Example, with config.yaml:

   theme: ["hugo-video", "my-theme"]

   or, with config.toml,

   theme = ["hugo-video", "my-theme"]

3. Place your video file(s) in the page bundle of your post.
4. In your site, use the shortcode, this way, indicating the video filename without its extension. If your video file is my-beautiful-screencast.mp4, type this:

   {{< video src="my-beautiful-screencast" >}}

   or

   {{< video src="my-beautiful-screencast" width="600px" >}}

Thanks

• To Tom McKenzie, for implementing muted, autoplay and loop video attributes support.
• To Olaf Haag and Paul Lettington, for raising and fixing some bugs.
• To Arsenii Lyashenko, for implementing controls disabling option and for providing the russian localization.

Licence

Copyright © 2019 onwards, Nicolas Martignoni nicolas@martignoni.net.

All the source code is licensed under GPL 3 or any later version

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.