Getting Started

If you are looking for industry leading Video Player with dual synchronous video playback, advanced layout capabilities and the power of Annoto interactivity, you are in the right place :)

Setup

The player is officially available via CDN and npm. Annoto works out of the box with not only HTML <script> tag, but also with all major bundlers/packagers/builders, such as Browserify, WebPack, etc.

NPM

$ npm install @annoto/player

The package includes full typings and can be used in typescript/ES6/flow projects.

CDN

Creating a Player

Annoto player is exposed as UMD module, meaning it offers compatibility with the most popular script loaders and can be imported as commonjs/amd/es6. If you are not using any standard loader the player will be exposed on window as global variables.

If you are using a javascript module loader such as RequireJS. Annoto exposes a standard UMD. For example for requireJS:

requirejs(["https://player.annoto.net/index.js"], function(nn) {
    //
});

The main player class is AnnotoPlayer. After you have the player instance it can be used to load video sources, dynamically control Widget, get access to Widget API and much more.

Creating player using the annotoPlayer helper (CDN)

The annotoPlayer() helper is available only for the CDN. When using the npm package, please use the AnnotoPlayer constructor directly (see below)

The simplest way to create a player is using the annotoPlayer() method:

Typescript

import { annotoPlayer, IPlayerOptions } from '@annoto/player';
import { IConfig } from '@annoto/widget-api';

const options: IPlayerOptions;
const wConfig: Omit<IConfig, 'widgets'> = {
    clientId: '...', // [mandatory for widget] the clientId provided by Annoto
    ssoToken: '...', // JWT user SSO token (recomended, but can be dynamicaly authenticated using the API as well)
};
let player: AnnotoPlayer;

annotoPlayer(document.querySelector('annoto-player'), options).then((p) => {
    player = p;
    return Promise.all([
        player.loadSrc({
            src: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9EZi7KJcc',
            type: 'video/youtube'
        }),
        player.setupWidget(wConfig),
    ]);
}).then(() => {
    return player.loadWidget(); // until this api call, the widget is not shown
}).catch((err) => {
    console.error('player setup error: ', err);
});

HTML

Creating player using the AnnotoPlayer constructor

The Player instance can be created using the AnnotoPlayer constructor which allows the most flexibility:

Typescript

import {
    AnnotoPlayer,
    IPlayerOptions,
    WidgetService,
    IWidgetService,
    getConsoleLogger,
} from '@annoto/player';
import { IConfig } from '@annoto/widget-api';

const options: IPlayerOptions; // optional player options
const wConfig: Omit<IConfig, 'widgets'> = {
    clientId: '...', // [mandatory for widget] the clientId provided by Annoto
    ssoToken: '...', // JWT user SSO token (recomended, but can be dynamicaly authenticated using the API as well)
};
// IMPORTANT: there must be only a single WidgetService on a page
// same widgetService must be used for all the players on a page
const widgetService = new WidgetService(); 

async function setupPlayer(el: HTMLElement, opt?: IPlayerOptions): Promise<AnnotoPlayer> {
    const pl = new AnnotoPlayer(
        getConsoleLogger('AnnotoPlayer'),
        widgetService,
    );
    
    await pl.setup(el, opt);
    return pl;
}

let player: AnnotoPlayer;
setupPlayer(document.querySelector('annoto-player'), options).then((p) => {
    player = p;
    return Promise.all([
        player.loadSrc({
            src: 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1T9EZi7KJcc',
            type: 'video/youtube'
        }),
        player.setupWidget(wConfig),
    ]);
}).then(() => {
    return player.loadWidget(); // until this api call, the widget is not shown
}).catch((err) => {
    console.error('player setup error: ', err);
});

HTML

Player Options

Annoto Player extends standard VideoJS options with some advanced functionality, for more details, please refer to the PlayerOptions.

PlayerOptions extends VideoJS options, so all options supported by the videojs player can be used.

Using the Widget API

The most common widget related api is available directly via the AnnotoPlayer instance, for example: setupWidget, loadWidget, destroyWidget.

For more advanced usages the IAnnotoApi can be obtained using await player.getWidgetApi()

Authenticating the User

The most recomended wait is to provide the User's SSO token to the widget configuration as show in Creating A Player.

An alternative way is to authenticate the user dynamically Using the Widget API

const api = await player.getWidgetApi();
const ssoToken = '...';
api.auth(ssoToken);