HTML5 and Javascript to play videos only when visible

I am interested in setting up an HTML page with multiple video clips such that each video clip plays only while visible and then pauses when out of view.

I have found this great example of how this can be implemented with one clip, but I have been unable to modify the code to work with multiple clips. Perhaps I need to convert this code into a function for easy re-usability?

Here is what I have so far (JS Bin linked above modified for 2 clips instead of one).

This code seems to work for only one of the two clips.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <!--   Created using jsbin.com   Source can be edited via http://jsbin.com/ocupor/1/edit
    -->
    <head>
        <meta charset=utf-8 />
        <title>JS Bin</title>
        <style>
            #right {
                position: absolute;
                top: 2000px;
            }
            #video1 {
                position: absolute;
                left: 2000px;
                top: 2000px;
            }
            #video2 {
                position: absolute;
                left: 2000px;
                top: 3000px;
            }

        </style>

        <style id="jsbin-css">
        </style>
    </head>
    #
    <body style="width: 4000px; height: 4000px;">
        <div id="info"></div>
        <div id="down">
            scroll down please...
        </div>
        <div id="right">
            scroll right please...
        </div>
        <video id="video1">
            <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4"/>

        </video>
        <script>
            var video = document.getElementById('video1'), fraction = 0.8;

            function checkScroll() {
                var x = video.offsetLeft, y = video.offsetTop, w = video.offsetWidth, h = video.offsetHeight, r = x + w, //right
                b = y + h, //bottom
                visibleX, visibleY, visible;

                visibleX = Math.max(0, Math.min(w, window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth - x, r - window.pageXOffset));
                visibleY = Math.max(0, Math.min(h, window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight - y, b - window.pageYOffset));

                visible = visibleX * visibleY / (w * h);

                if (visible > fraction) {
                    video.play();
                } else {
                    video.pause();
                }
            }

            checkScroll();
            window.addEventListener('scroll', checkScroll, false);
            window.addEventListener('resize', checkScroll, false);
        </script>

        <video id="video2">
            <source src="http://video-js.zencoder.com/oceans-clip.mp4"/>

        </video>
        <script>
            var video = document.getElementById('video2'), fraction = 0.8;

            function checkScroll() {
                var x = video.offsetLeft, y = video.offsetTop, w = video.offsetWidth, h = video.offsetHeight, r = x + w, //right
                b = y + h, //bottom
                visibleX, visibleY, visible;

                visibleX = Math.max(0, Math.min(w, window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth - x, r - window.pageXOffset));
                visibleY = Math.max(0, Math.min(h, window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight - y, b - window.pageYOffset));

                visible = visibleX * visibleY / (w * h);

                if (visible > fraction) {
                    video.play();
                } else {
                    video.pause();
                }
            } checkScroll();
            window.addEventListener('scroll', checkScroll, false);
            window.addEventListener('resize', checkScroll, false);

        </script>

    </body>
</html>

OK, I think, it must be something like this:

var videos = document.getElementsByTagName("video");

function checkScroll() {
    var fraction = 0.8; // Play when 80% of the player is visible.

    for(var i = 0; i < videos.length; i++) {

        var video = videos[i];

        var x = video.offsetLeft, y = video.offsetTop, w = video.offsetWidth, h = video.offsetHeight, r = x + w, //right
            b = y + h, //bottom
            visibleX, visibleY, visible;

            visibleX = Math.max(0, Math.min(w, window.pageXOffset + window.innerWidth - x, r - window.pageXOffset));
            visibleY = Math.max(0, Math.min(h, window.pageYOffset + window.innerHeight - y, b - window.pageYOffset));

            visible = visibleX * visibleY / (w * h);

            if (visible > fraction) {
                video.play();
            } else {
                video.pause();
            }

    }

}

window.addEventListener('scroll', checkScroll, false);
window.addEventListener('resize', checkScroll, false);

Using the isInViewport plugin and jQuery, here's my code for the task

$('video').each(function(){
    if ($(this).is(":in-viewport")) {
        $(this)[0].play();
    } else {
        $(this)[0].pause();
    }
})

None of the above seemed to work for me, but I finally found a way: you'll need the visible plugin, and this little piece of code right here:

$(window).scroll(function() {
    $('video').each(function() {
        if ($(this).visible(true)) {
            $(this)[0].play();
        } else {
            $(this)[0].pause();
        }
    })
});

This will allow any video to play only when it gets into viewport. By replacing visible( true ) by visible() , you can set it to play only when the entire video DOM element is in viewport.

HTML5 and Javascript to play videos only when visible

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