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The RIMdev blog lets up both document and play with what may, or may not, work.
Glad you asked! We currently check the post front matter and, if image: is listed, serve accordingly.
{% if page.image %}
{% assign postImage = page.image %}
{% elsif post.image %}
{% assign postImage = post.image %}
{% else %}
{% assign postImage = site.default_image %}
{% endif %}
Why page AND post? Our main page is assigned as a post.
Let’s load the video in our front matter, and handle fallback and poster image in the post in our include. We’re only dealing with .mp4 and .webm here. Video conversion? Cloud convert does a decent job for now. So now we have:
---
layout: post
video: /video/clouds_over_the_mountain
---
We could have used a collection and repeated our 3 formats with the same name, but a single entry with now extention makes more sense while listing the path.
Now we’re checking for and image or video:
{% if page.image %}
{% assign postImage = page.image %}
{% elsif post.image %}
{% assign postImage = post.image %}
{% else %}
{% if page.video %}
{% assign postVideo = page.video %}
{% elsif post.video %}
{% assign postVideo = post.video %}
{% else %}
{% assign postImage = site.default_image %}
{% endif %}
{% endif %}
<video class="background"
loop
muted
autoplay
preload="auto"
poster="{{ postVideo }}.png">
<source src="{{ postVideo }}.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="{{ postVideo }}.webm" type="video/webm">
</video>
The HTML5 Video Events and API page is a good place to start. You can see everything the API exposes and what may suite your needs. Check out this link for more on the element itself and attribute definitions.
Now we have to emulate background-position: cover; and we’re done.
video.background {
position: absolute;
top: 50%;
left: 50%;
min-width: 100%;
min-height: 100%;
width: auto;
height: auto;
z-index: -100;
transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}
Enjoy adding video to your jekyll project. Video content in this post is from the good folks at DISTILL.
