Is it possible to preload an html video? Note: the tag is created dynamicly later.
Currently I can do this with images by creating a hidden div and putting all the images in there. Then when I create the need later the image does not need to be reloaded.
When this is done with a video tag, the browser still loads the video from the beginning when the element is created.
I saw this: https://github.com/jussi-kalliokoski/html5Preloader.js, but it does not seem to work with videos. Any ideas would be appreciated!
Answer
Try this out:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<video width="320" height="240" controls="controls" **preload="auto"**>
<source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
<source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
<source src="movie.webM" type="video/webM" />
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>
</body>
</html>
Note: This doesnt work on IE ;), for this you can use some player(simply inclusion of a .js). They have a fallbak of flash for IE use JW Player & JW Player Preload
Njoy!!!