AlchemyCMS HTML5 Richmedia Essences

Adds HTML5 EssenceAudio and EssenceVideo essences to your AlchemyCMS powered website.

Alchemy version

This gem has been merged into Alchemy v6.

You can safely remove it from your Gemfile after upgrading to Alchemy v6.

This version is compatible with Alchemy v4 and v5 only.

• For Alchemy v3.x please use version 1.0.0.
• For Alchemy v2.7.0 please use version 0.2.0.
• For Alchemy v2.6.0 and below please use version 0.1.0.

Also this plugin does not contain a EssenceFlash any more. If you need EssenceFlash, you need to use version 0.3-stable.

Installation

Make sure you have AlchemyCMS installed.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'alchemy-richmedia-essences', github: 'AlchemyCMS/alchemy-richmedia-essences', branch: 'main'

And then execute:

$ bundle install

Usage

1. After installing or updating, prepare your database with:

$ rake alchemy_richmedia_essences:install:migrations db:migrate

2. In your elements.yml add one of these essences to your element of choice.

# elements.yml
- name: video
  contents:
  - name: video
    type: EssenceVideo

- name: audio
  contents:
  - name: audio
    type: EssenceAudio

Player customization

This plugin just provides HTML5 <video> and <audio> tags and no styling at all. The players will appear as the browser vendors provide.

If you want a cross browser and customizable player with Flash® fallback, then we strongly recommend something like http://mediaelementjs.com/

There is even a gem https://github.com/tobsch/mediaelement_rails that provides everthing for the Rails' asset pipeline.

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request