[yodogmediaParticipant]

Hello,
in the ethos demo I really liked the video background concept, but when I try to make it happen it just doesn’t work out. the mp4 direct link poses a problem because sites like youtube and vimeo don’t provide a direct mp4 link (in the case of vimeo they will provide it only if you give them $200/year and I just dont think that’s reasonable.) When I tried to self host a video that was 720p and 5 seconds long at 5MB in size it takes 5 seconds to load, and then plays back choppily once loaded.

So what did you guys do to make this work and how did you get it to play back so smoothly on your demo? Did I use too big of a file? Or were you guys able to pull a direct link from somewhere that could support a file of this size?

The url is yodogmedia-development.com

[Kosher KMember]

Hi There,

If you don’t want to host the mp4 video on your server, there’s a way to get vimeo or youtube direct mp4 link,

For youtube, please check this out,
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/76908/what-is-the-easiest-fastest-way-to-get-direct-link-to-mp4-video-on-youtube

For vimeo, you can get the url using this one http://player.vimeo.com/video/<video_id_here>/config

Simply open it on your browser and you’ll see a json response that contains direct mp4 url.

e.g. if you check this http://player.vimeo.com/video/98560039/config,

you’ll see something like this

{"profile":112,
"origin":"ns3.pdl",
"url":"http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/57747/869/263616365.mp4?token2=1413378981_0c414944ba632b906b24990f9f7baebe&aksessionid=cf45457d811407f2",
"height":360,
"width":640,
"id":263616365,
"bitrate":541,
"availability":60}

and this one http://pdl.vimeocdn.com/57747/869/263616365.mp4?token2=1413378261_9f5e78b919dc300d7b4dae3d8ea9755b&aksessionid=da464805ed809d6a will be the video file direct URL where you can use and set as the video background,

Hope that helps,
Have a great day

[HANDundFUSSParticipant]

Hey,

I have the same issue. Unfortunately, the way you described for Vimeo seems not to work anymore and I really don’t want to be forced to be pay a lot of money to them just for an intro video.

Is there another way that I can use a video from Vimeo with this theme without going Vimeo pro?

[ZeshanMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for writing in!

This is a limitation by Vimeo itself that it only allows mp4 link to its PRO users. Regretfully, we don’t have much control over it.

As suggested above, you can also upload video to your own server and use it’s direct link in above/below masthead slider background video option. For example, http://your-website.com/video.mp4.

Thanks!

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