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BigVideo.js - The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video. The jQuery Plugin for Big Background Video (and Images) This plugin makes it easy to add fit-to-fill background video to websites. It can play silent ambient background video (or series of videos). Or use it as a player to show video playlist. BigVideo.js can also show big background images, which is nice to have for showing big background images for devices that don’t have autoplay for ambient video. BigVideo.js is built on top of Video.js from zencoder. You can read about how to use BigVideo.js below. DOWNLOAD: zip tar examples bower install BigVideo.js Setup BigVideo.js uses the Video.js api. To simply play a video that takes up the entire browser window (like in this example), do this: For crossbrowser fallbacks, you can include a source order with different video formats.

Ambient Video To play silent video in the background of a page (like in this example), use BigVideo’s ambient setting: Or play a series of ambient background videos (like in this example) Video.js BV.getPlayer().pause(); Tubular, a YouTube Background Player jQuery Plugin | Sean McCambridge Design. Video controls:Play | Pause | Volume Up | Volume Down | Mute Tubular is a jQuery plugin that lets you set a YouTube video as your page background. Just attach it to your page wrapper element, set some options, and you're on your way. $(page content wrapper element).tubular(options); Tubular's hello, world Assuming you're happy with the default options and you use a wrapper div with the id of wrapper, you simply attach to your wrapper div and specify the video you want to load: and Presto! A word of caution Tubular does not design your website for you. Options and defaults ratio: 16/9 // usually either 4/3 or 16/9 -- tweak as needed videoId: 'ZCAnLxRvNNc' // toy robot in space is a good default, no?

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Parallax Slider with jQuery. Ftdesigner.net - personal portfolio of Alexey Chenishov. Parallax Scrolling and Its Usage in Web Design. The parallax effect, also called parallax scrolling, is a special technique used in computer graphics at first, where background images move by the camera slower than foreground images. This is the actual concept where websites with parallax scrolling started.

It was widely used in the gaming industry more than 10-15 years ago and it is still used today in different domains. In the past years the parallax effect started to be used widely in web design. Its popularity went through the clouds when Nike redesigned their website based on this concept. The design concept started to be used because it is actually quite cool.

Parallax Scrolling Examples Although this is usually the case, utilizing the parallax scrolling effect doesn’t have to limit you to a fake 3D effect. When they see it for the first time, people use to think that the effect is nice. Performance Issues Although the effect looks brilliant, there are some downsides to it, such as the performance issues. New age technologies.