Are you ever going to consider giving your clients their right to choose whether or not they want to display background video on mobile devices?
Plus more and more people have unlimited data plans now so the issue is not as much of deal as it used to be.
Hello @baddog,
Thanks for writing in!
Having a video background is only good for deskstop screes. For smaller screens and devices, aside from being a bandwidth hogger, this will still not work either on tablets nor smartphones as there is no autostart(autoplay) on mobile and that videos don’t play inline on smartphones. They usually open in the mobile player.
Understand that these restrictions were not from the theme. It has something to do with the android OS browser and how these devices handles videos.
Hope this helps.
Hello @baddog,
Thanks for updating in! This example website is a custom html design. It does not use WordPress or its WP Media elements. It is just using Easy HTML video script.
Regards.
Hi RueNel,
You previous reply stated…“It has something to do with the android OS browser and how these devices handles videos”.
You did not say anything about WordPress being the issue. I guess I will do further research on my own. Since bandwidth is really a non issue for the most part these days and moving forward. I hope that Themeco will start addressing or at least looking into this this issue as well in the future. Considering, how many mobile devices download and view YouTube and Vimeo video content by the millions or more everyday it does not make sense to have this kind of restriction within the Pro, X or WordPress.
Regards
David Terrazas
Hello @baddog,
Yes it does depend on the browser because each of the browser will render the video differently and most of theme disable the background videos. WordPress Media Elements does handles the video elements differently as well. In your example website, since it is a custom html design, the developers may have found a solution to force the video and trick the browser to autoplay the video.
Videos from Youtube and Vimeo will not be played by the default browser video player. It needs to run in the Youtube app or other video player app in the device. Not just Pro, X or WordPress, Revolution Slider and other themes and plugins does not play videos in smaller devices as of this moment. Sooner or later, this shall be done in the future releases.
Thanks for your understanding.
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