castable-video

<castable-video>

Cast your video element to the big screen with ease!

The lightweight CastableVideoElement class extends the native HTMLVideoElement API and adds casting functionality to any video element. The API aims to be equivalent to the Remote Playback API with a few extra element attributes specific to casting.

It was primarily built for use in Media Chrome but it works great with any custom video controls as you can see in the example.

<script src="https://www.gstatic.com/cv/js/sender/v1/cast_sender.js?loadCastFramework=1"></script>
<script type="module" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/castable-video/+esm"></script>

<castable-video
  id="castable"
  src="https://stream.mux.com/DS00Spx1CV902MCtPj5WknGlR102V5HFkDe/high.mp4"
></castable-video>

<button onclick="castable.play()">Play</button>
<button onclick="castable.pause()">Pause</button>
<button id="castBtn" hidden onclick="castable.prompt()">Cast...</button>

<script>
  castable.remote.watchAvailability((available) => {
    castBtn.hidden = !available;
  });

  castable.remote.addEventListener('connecting', function (event) {
    console.log(event.type);
  });

  castable.remote.addEventListener('connect', function (event) {
    console.log(event.type);
  });

  castable.remote.addEventListener('disconnect', function (event) {
    console.log(event.type);
  });
</script>

Remote Playback API

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/RemotePlayback

Methods

• video.remote.prompt(): open the browser casting menu.
• video.remote.watchAvailability(callback): watch if remote devices are available.
• video.remote.cancelWatchAvailability(callback): cancel watching for remote devices.

Properties

• video.remote.state: the current cast state.
  • disconnected: Cast devices are available, but a cast session is not established.
  • connecting: Cast session is being established.
  • connected: Cast session is established.

Events

• connecting: fires when a cast session is being established.
• connect: fires when starting casting.
• disconnect: fires when stopping casting.

e.g. video.remote.addEventListener('connect', () => {})

Attributes

• cast-src: if Chromecast requires a different source than the one loaded.
  For example this would be needed if video src is a blob when using MSE.
• cast-stream-type: add <castable-video cast-stream-type="live"> for live streams.
• cast-content-type: required if Chromecast can't derive the content type from the source.

Usage with MSE (for example Hls.js or Dash.js)

When your media element is using Media Source Extension (MSE) element has a src like src="blob://.... If you are using Hls.js or Dash.js you may have noticed this. Because of the blob://.., castable-video has no way to know what the source is, so you must set the cast-src= attribute to the full URL of the video source.

Related

• Media Chrome Your media player's dancing suit. 🕺
• <mux-video> A Mux-flavored HTML5 video element w/ hls.js and Mux data builtin.
• <youtube-video> A web component for the YouTube player.
• <wistia-video> A web component for the Wistia player.
• <jwplayer-video> A web component for the JW player.
• <hls-video> A web component for playing HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) videos.
• <mux-player> The official Mux-flavored video player web component.