Customizing the mediaelement video player

If this is a plugin you found in this site you should better try to get help from it’s author.

No, this is about the WordPress native media player.

i see, are you adding an uploaded video or a url link?

i dont have any experience on the subject but i may find something to help.

i found this and the option for fullscreen is not supported (by default at least)

I saw that, so I made a request for those new features to be added. From what I understand they were introduced in 4.4, but it seems this needs to be done with a filter or something like that, and I don’t really understand how to make it work.

using the 2016 i tried this and it works

function add_extra_settings($mejs_settings) {

	$extra_settings = array(
		'loop' => false,
		'startVolume' => 0.1,
		'videoHeight' => -1,
		'alwaysShowControls' => false,
		'features' => ['playpause','volume'],

	);

	// combine the two arrays
	$mejs_settings = array_merge($extra_settings, $mejs_settings);

	return $mejs_settings;
}
add_filter('mejs_settings', 'add_extra_settings',9999);

in your functions.php

https://pippinsplugins.com/a-quick-introduction-to-using-filters/

It’s working perfectly, thanks!

May I ask, in the last line, what’s the “9999” for?

it’s a priority number i think you can skip it.

Thanks again.

Is there a way to make the filter work in a custom PHP page where I’m using this?: require('../wp-load.php');

With that line of code I’m using WordPress native media player outside the WordPress folder, but for some reason it doesn’t load the filter I just added to the functions file.
I’m not using the theme’s functions.php, but a personal functions file as a plugin where I added all my functions, leaving the theme’s one alone. Besides, it wouldn’t work in the theme’s function.php because I’m also using define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);, I don’t need my theme on the custom PHP page.

I love this solution. But…

I’m putting it in a plugin and I’m concerned that there might be other video content on a user website that should not be modified by my

add_filter(‘mejs_settings’, ‘add_extra_settings’,9999);

filter.

It appears that the add_extra_settings function has no knowledge of which video element it is being applied on.

Any way to limit the effects of this filter?

Doesn’t “mejs_settings” targets only the MediaElement tag?

Yes.

However, there could be dozens of them spread throughout a website and my plugin should only react to the specific ones that it “controls”.