I've followed this tutorial:
http://popcornjs.org/popcorn-101
Tutorial Code
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://popcornjs.org/code/dist/popcorn-complete.min.js"></script>
<script>
// ensure the web page (DOM) has loaded
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function () {
// Create a popcorn instance by calling Popcorn("#id-of-my-video")
var pop = Popcorn("#ourvideo");
// add a footnote at 2 seconds, and remove it at 6 seconds
pop.footnote({
start: 2,
end: 6,
text: "Pop!",
target: "footnotediv"
});
// play the video right away
pop.play();
}, false);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<video height="180" width="300" id="ourvideo" controls>
<source src="http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/webmademovies/popcornplug.mp4">
<source src="http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/webmademovies/popcornplug.ogv">
<source src="http://videos.mozilla.org/serv/webmademovies/popcornplug.webm">
</video>
<div id="footnotediv"></div>
</body>
</html>
And can run this locally.
In Firebug, I see the footnote
div update from:
<div style="display: none;">Pop!</div>
to:
<div style="display: inline;">Pop!</div>
On a live site however, I am loading my page html from a MongoDB database via Ajax and the footnote display functionality doesn't seem to be working.
Thinking this might have something to do with needing to 're-initialise' after the content has loaded, I've added the popcorn.js functionality to a function called on click:
Function
<script>
function myPopcornFunction() {
var pop = Popcorn("#ourvideo");
pop.footnote({
start: 2,
end: 6,
text: "Pop!",
target: "footnotediv"
});
pop.play();
}
</script>
Call
$(document).on("click","a.video", function (e) {
// passing values to python script and returning results from database via getJSON()
myPopcornFunction();
});
This doesn't seem to have an effect.
No footnotediv
content is loaded when the video plays.
The video is also not playing automatically.
It's hard to reproduce in jsFiddle with dynamic content, so is there a generic approach to ensuring popcorn works with dynamically loaded content?
Firebug Error on click
TypeError: k.media.addEventListener is not a function
It seems to have been a timing issue in that originally I had made a call to the myPopcornFunction()
outside of the function which loaded the content (a getJSON()
function). When I placed the call within the same block as the getJSON()
function, things seemed to maintain their 'order' and popcorn could work correctly.
Before
$(document).on("click","a.video", function (e) {
$.getJSON("/path", {cid: my_variable, format: 'json'}, function(results){
$("#content_area").html("");
$("#content_area").append(results.content);
});
e.preventDefault();
myPopcornFunction(); // the call WAS here
});
After
$(document).on("click","a.video", function (e) {
$.getJSON("/path", {cid: my_variable, format: 'json'}, function(results){
$("#content_area").html("");
$("#content_area").append(results.content);
myPopcornFunction(); // the call is now HERE
});
e.preventDefault();
});
The myPopcornFunction()
was the same as in the original post.