Elementor background video issue

  • Resolved albridi

    (@albridi)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there ?? !

    I would like to change a self-hosted background video to a YouTube version to decrease the loading time of the site.

    But if I use a link to YouTube, the only browser that recognizes it is Chrome. Other browsers, such as Firefox or Edge, don’t display the background video if it is not self-hosted. They show the alternate background image.

    How can I solve this?

    Kind regards.

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  • Hi,

    Can you send me your site URL?

    Thread Starter albridi

    (@albridi)

    Hi @ozyeger, thanks for supporting ?? !

    The URL is https://www.jinglebit.com, but you wouldn’t see the problem because the background video that’s running now is self-hosted and this way it works.

    It’s when I try to change it to a YouTube linked version when it fails to run in Firefox and Edge.

    Regards.

    Thread Starter albridi

    (@albridi)

    Hi there ?? !

    Finally I’ve found the problem, and it wasn’t Elementor related. The issue was produced because of the age restriction in YouTube. The video was set as “for children” and this counter intuitive thing makes the video more restrictive that if you say it’s not for kids.

    Now the video is “unlisted” and marked as “not for kids” an it works as background in Elementor perfectly.

    Anyway there’s an irritating thing that I’m not sure if can be solved. The video runs in a infinite loop but at the end of it, and just where the next loop will init, the video goes black for a millisecond destroying the sensation of continuity with a little leap. Is there a way to avoid this little gap, perhaps a preload of the next loop to do a crossfade or something alike?

    Kind regards.

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