Video does not play on mobile phone view of coming-soon-3.html

1 reply · opened Sep 30, 2020

LlccrowSep 30, 2020

The explore.webm video does not play when I view this site from my phone using the coming-soon-3.html or other template pages like op-video-grid.html and 73 others in the template. The site listed in teh live url is a development site. I downloaded the newest version themeforest-Dx7qKd9B-canvas-the-multipurpose-html5-template.

Please advise.

--Liz Crow

SSemicolon WebSTAFFOct 1, 2020

Hello,

Apple and Android do not allow autoplay for HTML5 Videos/Audio to prevent unsolicited usage of Bandwidth (which can be Cellular) on the User’s Mobile Device. They can only be played on their native Video Player.

Here is the Official Reference for Apple: https://developer.apple.com/library/safari/documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/Using_HTML5_Audio_Video/Device-SpecificConsiderations/Device-SpecificConsiderations.html .

Meanwhile, currently the Inline Video Autoplay is supported only from iOS 10 onwards. You can use the following instructions to make it work on iOS 10 or above devices:

  1. Add the playsinline Attribute to the <video> Tag. Example:
    [ch_pre]<video id="slide-video" poster="images/videos/explore.jpg" preload="auto" loop autoplay muted playsinline>
    ...
    </video>[/ch_pre]

  2. Then add the .no-placeholder Class to the .video-wrap Container that encloses the <video> Tag. Example:
    [ch_pre]<div class="video-wrap no-placeholder">
    <video poster="images/videos/explore.jpg" preload="auto" loop autoplay muted playsinline>
    ...

    </video>
    <div class="video-overlay" style="background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.55);"></div>
    </div>[/ch_pre]

This should definitely work fine. Hope this Helps!

Do let us know if we can help you with anything else or if you find any further issues with Canvas.

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