vidbacking

vidbacking is a jQuery plugin to create HTML5 / Youtube video as background on webpage with fallback image support. It supports mp4 and webm files as well as Youtube video. Maintained by souravm84 on GitHub, where it has earned 57 stars from the community.

It's actively developed around video-background, full-page-video-background, background-video, and is a solid reference for anyone building with these tools.