Now it has become very easy to display a video as background in your WordPress based website but make sure it uses a lot of bandwidth so you should have a good hosting.
mb.YTPlayer for background videos is a powerful WordPress plugin that lets you play YouTube video in background of your website in full screen just like you add custom background images and the plugin is free. View Demo or check the following video:
Step-1 Install and activate the plugin then visit its settings page and the options:
Step-2 Now you can add a video as background or targeted to a DOM element in any page or post by inserting a shortcode generated via the editor button:
Step-3 Following screenshot show its shortcode editor:
The feature has bee tested successfully on:
- Chrome 11+, Firefox 7+, Opera 9+ on Mac OsX, Windows and Linux
- Safari 5+ on Mac OsX
- IE7+ on Windows (via Adobe Flash player)