I have a
- . Clicking on an element in the
- causes an AJAX call to update the contents of the
$.ajax({
// each video has its own unique ID
url: "/Video?id=' + id,
success: function (data) {
$('#containing_div').html(data);
// necessary to re-load video player controls
_V_('video_' + id, { "controls": true, "autoplay": false, "preload": "auto" });
}
});
Adding the initialization call to _V_ seemed to help matters somewhat: now when I switch videos, the "play" control appears as expected, and I can play a video. However, once I do, when I switch to a different video, the controls are now gone again. Furthermore, there are weird random errors: if I change videos a few times, suddenly the controls disappear for no apparent reason. Also, occasionally, a second after I switch to a new video, the video poster disappears completely.
Clearly, some "magic" happens in Video.js on page load that is not being triggered by the AJAX call, but I haven't been able to figure out what that is. There's nothing wrong with the tags because initially they were all in-line in the page, and they were being hidden/shown by changing their opacity, and that worked fine (the reason I want to move to AJAX is the page size is huge when all the videos are loaded in-line).