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Re: background video pause/play?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Aug 15, 2017 7:20AM

On 15/08/2017 14:06, Joseph Sherman wrote:
> Does background video that loops more than 5 seconds also need pause and play buttons? For example the video here:
> http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/academics/
>
> Is there an easy way to add pause to background video?

Define "easy"...it all depends on how the video itself has been
incorporated. In the example above, it's an HTML5 <video> element, and
the pause control that's already present there on the left-hand side
(which should really be keyboard-focusable!) fires the pause() method on
the <video> element programmatically.

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