Semi Unique Website Background concept. Video as Background

Question

I've seen this done, but up til now wasn't interested in doing it. Now I'm sitting here slightly bored wanting to play with a new idea I have which involves the idea of putting a video as the background on a page. Full width and height of the viewing pane (preferably resizes with the window if the window should resize). I'm just not really sure how to tackle this. I know its going to require me layering divs over divs with z-index as Im guessing the actual background property of any given browser doesn't directly support this. I guess my question is ultimately is how to handle the video? I need some means of playing it on a loop, thats not a player like flow player or whatever.

Answer 1

You can use this jQuery plugin. I haven't tested it but it lets you set a youtube video as the site's background. (and from the example code, maybe also any element on the page).

Tubular jQuery Plugin