/vueuse-functions

useMediaControls

Reactive media controls for both audio and video elements

Usage

Basic Usage

<script setup lang="ts">
import { useMediaControls } from '@vueuse/core'
import { onMounted, useTemplateRef } from 'vue'

const video = useTemplateRef('video')
const { playing, currentTime, duration, volume } = useMediaControls(video, {
  src: 'video.mp4',
})

// Change initial media properties
onMounted(() => {
  volume.value = 0.5
  currentTime.value = 60
})
</script>

<template>
  <video ref="video" />
  <button @click="playing = !playing">
    Play / Pause
  </button>
  <span>{{ currentTime }} / {{ duration }}</span>
</template>

Providing Captions, Subtitles, etc...

You can provide captions, subtitles, etc in the tracks options of the useMediaControls function. The function will return an array of tracks along with two functions for controlling them, enableTrack, disableTrack, and selectedTrack. Using these you can manage the currently selected track. selectedTrack will be -1 if there is no selected track.

<script setup lang="ts">
import { useMediaControls } from '@vueuse/core'
import { useTemplateRef } from 'vue'

const video = useTemplateRef('video')
const {
  tracks,
  enableTrack
} = useMediaControls(video, {
  src: 'video.mp4',
  tracks: [
    {
      default: true,
      src: './subtitles.vtt',
      kind: 'subtitles',
      label: 'English',
      srcLang: 'en',
    },
  ]
})
</script>

<template>
  <video ref="video" />
  <button v-for="track in tracks" :key="track.id" @click="enableTrack(track)">
    {{ track.label }}
  </button>
</template>

Type Declarations

/**
 * Many of the jsdoc definitions here are modified version of the
 * documentation from MDN(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement)
 */
export interface UseMediaSource {
  /**
   * The source url for the media
   */
  src: string
  /**
   * The media codec type
   */
  type?: string
  /**
   * Specifies the media query for the resource's intended media.
   */
  media?: string
}
export interface UseMediaTextTrackSource {
  /**
   * Indicates that the track should be enabled unless the user's preferences indicate
   * that another track is more appropriate
   */
  default?: boolean
  /**
   * How the text track is meant to be used. If omitted the default kind is subtitles.
   */
  kind: TextTrackKind
  /**
   * A user-readable title of the text track which is used by the browser
   * when listing available text tracks.
   */
  label: string
  /**
   * Address of the track (.vtt file). Must be a valid URL. This attribute
   * must be specified and its URL value must have the same origin as the document
   */
  src: string
  /**
   * Language of the track text data. It must be a valid BCP 47 language tag.
   * If the kind attribute is set to subtitles, then srclang must be defined.
   */
  srcLang: string
}
interface UseMediaControlsOptions extends ConfigurableDocument {
  /**
   * The source for the media, may either be a string, a `UseMediaSource` object, or a list
   * of `UseMediaSource` objects.
   */
  src?: MaybeRefOrGetter<string | UseMediaSource | UseMediaSource[]>
  /**
   * A list of text tracks for the media
   */
  tracks?: MaybeRefOrGetter<UseMediaTextTrackSource[]>
}
export interface UseMediaTextTrack {
  /**
   * The index of the text track
   */
  id: number
  /**
   * The text track label
   */
  label: string
  /**
   * Language of the track text data. It must be a valid BCP 47 language tag.
   * If the kind attribute is set to subtitles, then srclang must be defined.
   */
  language: string
  /**
   * Specifies the display mode of the text track, either `disabled`,
   * `hidden`, or `showing`
   */
  mode: TextTrackMode
  /**
   * How the text track is meant to be used. If omitted the default kind is subtitles.
   */
  kind: TextTrackKind
  /**
   * Indicates the track's in-band metadata track dispatch type.
   */
  inBandMetadataTrackDispatchType: string
  /**
   * A list of text track cues
   */
  cues: TextTrackCueList | null
  /**
   * A list of active text track cues
   */
  activeCues: TextTrackCueList | null
}
export interface UseMediaControlsReturn {
  currentTime: ShallowRef<number>
  duration: ShallowRef<number>
  waiting: ShallowRef<boolean>
  seeking: ShallowRef<boolean>
  ended: ShallowRef<boolean>
  stalled: ShallowRef<boolean>
  buffered: ShallowRef<[number, number][]>
  playing: ShallowRef<boolean>
  rate: ShallowRef<number>
  volume: ShallowRef<number>
  muted: ShallowRef<boolean>
  tracks: ShallowRef<UseMediaTextTrack[]>
  selectedTrack: ShallowRef<number>
  enableTrack: (
    track: number | UseMediaTextTrack,
    disableTracks?: boolean,
  ) => void
  disableTrack: (track?: number | UseMediaTextTrack) => void
  supportsPictureInPicture: boolean
  togglePictureInPicture: () => Promise<PictureInPictureWindow | void>
  isPictureInPicture: ShallowRef<boolean>
  onSourceError: EventHookOn<Event>
  onPlaybackError: EventHookOn<Event>
}
export declare function useMediaControls(
  target: MaybeRef<HTMLMediaElement | null | undefined>,
  options?: UseMediaControlsOptions,
): UseMediaControlsReturn