Hooray, a new year! Nice article, good to see non-frameworked JavaScript :-)

One regex gotcha:

* “.” means any character except newline, and w is alphanumeric+underscore – so if your source src attribute was “my-cat.mp4”, then the first line that sets the src attribute would end up putting in “bumper-in.cat”. If you don’t know what your filenames will be apart from the extension, plus you only care about the extension, probably better just to use something like /.(w+)$/

And a couple of regex typos:

* The “w” character classes all appear to be missing their “”, unless you only want to match wwwww.www ;)
* The last regex has “([w]+)” which also should presumably be w+

Hope that’s helpful.

Awesome tutorial, but like Jason, this doesn’t work on my iPhone. I have iOS 5.1.1 and iPhone 3GS.

Thanks, Drew. This seems like a great solution. Unfortunately, none of the examples work here on my iPhone 4 running iOS 5.

First few examples don’t play, and the bumper examples play the first bumper, then reload the first bumper and pause. If you press play, it plays a second of the bumper and pauses, an repeats that infinitely. Never loads the main video.

Just an FYI. :)

Cool, i have a feeling this is going to be used for evil (commercials :P ).
When hitting “play” again though the outro bumper plays again.

Avangelist – we don’t try to ‘sell’ clients on technical implementation details. They hire us to do a job and we get on with it to the best of our ability.

Again a very good start this year. Very helpfull.

With this simple technique we can use the same product movie on each different webshop for the same product, with only a different branding bumper.

When example 2, 3 and 4 I got a 403 error (using Chrome, IE was no problem). Example 1 was no problem. Is this only with my particular computer or can’t it be used with Chrome? Because a lot of people use Chrome these days.

Great start to 24 Ways 2012.

What’s the performance like on loading 2 videos? I know Firefox is quite keen when loading assets. I’m assuming the main video loads in the background as its requested on page load. Any issues with the browser downloading the main video and the front bumper at the same time?

Worked great here but the videos are short.

This is great thanks Drew; really interesting approach. I’d worked with bumpers for clients using Brightcove and then tried to replicate similar functionality for another client using the onended event to pass in a second video to the player. I hadn’t however taken the next step as you have here, so thanks for sharing :)

Cheers,

K

Another great article to start the new season!
I think this solution is elegant, and it responds to two main issues: SEO and browsers without javascript.

This is awesome!! Thanks Drew. Good example of progressive enhancement.

I am just beginning to dive deeper into JS & jQuery, but I am wondering if we could add fade ins or fade outs or even cross fades. That would improve the transition between the bumper and main video, allowing the bumper to seem baked in.

Also, I use Vimeo for all my video embeds. Can you place an href or external url inside a <source> tag?

Unlike your cat in the video i am very impressed by this tutorial. Works fine on desktop! However as stated above have some issues on iPhone4 IOS5: doesn’t work using opera mini, on chrome for mobile and safari i get only the first bumper. Will try on IOS6 too. Thank you very much for the great opener.