ArcticGiant

This is the ArcticGiant script written for the WikiMedia player. It is public domain, written by MaikMerten.

There is a demo of this script in use by the WikiMedia player here.

This script is referenced in the FOSS Codecs Research Codecs_Draft_Recommendations.

<video id="testvideo" style="display:none"></video>


<script language="JavaScript">
var vlcActiveX = false;
var vlcPlugin = false;
var videoElement = false;
var oggPlugin = false;
var javaEnabled = false;
</script>
<script language="vbScript">
on error resume next
vlcActiveX = (IsObject(CreateObject("VideoLAN.VLCPlugin.2")))
</script>


<script language="JavaScript">

function embedVideoElement(location, width, height) {
  document.write("<video style=\"width:" + width + ";height:" + height + ";\" src='" + location + "' id='video_element'></video><br>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='play' onClick='document.getElementById(\"video_element\").play()'>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='stop' onClick='document.getElementById(\"video_element\").pause(); document.getElementById(\"video_element\").start = 0;'>");
}

function embedOggPlugin(location, width, height) {
  document.write("<object type='application/ogg' width='"+width+"' height='"+height+"' data='" + location + "'></object>");
}

function embedVlcPlugin(location, width, height) {
  document.write("<object type='application/x-vlc-plugin' id='vlc_element' width='"+width+"' height='"+height+"' data='" + location + "'></object><br>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='play' onClick='document.getElementById(\"vlc_element\").play()'>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='stop' onClick='document.getElementById(\"vlc_element\").stop()'>");
}


function embedVlcActiveX(location,width,height) {
  document.write("<object classid='clsid:9BE31822-FDAD-461B-AD51-BE1D1C159921' codebase='http://downloads.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/latest/win32/axvlc.cab#Version=0,8,6,0' width='"+width+"' height='"+height+"' id='vlc_element'>");
  document.write("<param name='MRL' value='" + location +"'>");
  document.write("</object><br>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='play' onClick='document.getElementById(\"vlc_element\").playlist.play()'>");
  document.write("<input type='button' value='stop' onClick='document.getElementById(\"vlc_element\").playlist.stop()'>");
}

function embedCortado(location,width,height) {
  document.write("<applet code='com.fluendo.player.Cortado.class' archive='cortado.jar' width='"+width+"' height='"+height+"'>");
  document.write("<param name='url' value='" + location + "'>");
  document.write("</applet>");
}



if(document.getElementsByTagName("video").length > 0) {
  var myvideo = document.getElementById("testvideo");
  if(myvideo.play) {
    videoElement = true;
  }
}

var searchedMimeTypes = false;
var foundJavaMimeType = false;

if(navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes.length > 0) {

  searchedMimeTypes = true;

  for (var i = 0; i < navigator.mimeTypes.length; i++) {
    if(navigator.mimeTypes[i].type.indexOf("application/ogg") > -1) {
      oggPlugin = true;
    }
    if(navigator.mimeTypes[i].type.indexOf("application/x-vlc-plugin") > -1) {
      vlcPlugin = true;
    }	
    if(navigator.mimeTypes[i].type.indexOf("application/x-java-applet") > -1) {
      foundJavaMimeType = true;
    }
  }

}


var nativePlayback = vlcActiveX || vlcPlugin || videoElement || oggPlugin;
 
if(searchedMimeTypes) {
  javaEnabled = navigator.javaEnabled() && foundJavaMimeType;
} else {
  javaEnabled = navigator.javaEnabled();
}


var file = "arctic_giant.ogg";
var width = 512;
var height = 384;

if(videoElement) {
  embedVideoElement(file,width,height);
} else if(vlcPlugin) {
  embedVlcPlugin(file,width,height);
} else if(vlcActiveX) {
  embedVlcActiveX(file,width,height);
} else if(oggPlugin) {
  embedOggPlugin(file,width,height);
} else if(javaEnabled) {
  embedCortado(file,width,height);
}

</script>