Slider doesn't stop for youtube embeds

[strategicblend 0]

Everytime I embed a youtube video in the featured slider, the slider (if set on a timer) will not stop while the video is playing. It keeps sliding through, but you can hear the video's audio in the background. How do we compensate for this?

[Kate 3]

Hello, Currently there's no built-in feature to handle that. You would have to do some heavier customizations.

[strategicblend 0]

Why is this - other sliders can handle it just fine? It kind of puts a major hole in my reasoning to build off platform pro....

[kastelic 6]

Not sure why, it just didn't make it on the list during the development i guess. The slider is based of the popular jquery "cycle" plugin. I'm curious, which sliders do you know of that do stop the video when going to the next slide or stop the rotation when the video is playing?

[strategicblend 0]

Kastelic - here's a recent example: http://demo.scheetzdesigns.com/born/wordpress/ Notice the video in the slider will play and the slider will stop while it's playing.

[kastelic 6]

If you don't want to use the Platform slider you can always integrate a slider of your choice by installing a wordpress plugin or a jquery script and integrating the code using a hook. For example, the link you sent me appears to be the jcarousel slider, although it also appears heavily customized.

[cmodesign 0]

Does PlatformPro 2.0 resolve this issue? This seems to be a huge oversight in the slider capabilities. It basically negates using it for anything other than text and images when auto-timing enabled. The integration is great so I would hate to have to use another slider as a workaround.

[Rob 547]

PageLines Framework doesn't resolve this matter and if you look at the demo slides, you'll see that there's only one with a video, principally because most sliders are not intended to display video, but static images. You can always set the timing of the slides to be considerably greater than the duration of the video, however, there's still no guaranty that it will work if the visitor doesn't click to start the video on arrival. The gap would result in a transition while the video continues playing in the background (as you're experiencing). There are video carousels intended to let visitors see videos in sequence. They do much more specific handling of video than those intended for use with static imagery. I'd strongly suggest shopping for an alternative solution at http://www.wordpress.org/extend/plugins.

[JohnMagic 0]

I think I'd like to throw my two cents into this discussion. I managed to present video in iblog4 by using autoplay and timer set to video lenght + 2 secs. I also had to hardcode the slide to make the video fit with slider width. With so much work done in coding the framework it would be sad if the slider was unable to show video in a proper way. Video is booming as web content and the framework integration of the slider should reflect this. The slider backend has options for video embedding so its unnatural that we lack proper settings to actually use video.

[Simon 248]

As I meantioned in another thread, the javascript cycle code just cycles through whatever it is given, whether it be a set of posts/pictures videos or whatever. It does not know what it is cycling it just keeps going. There is no way for it to know if its a picture or a video and there is no way for it to know if you have clicked play on a youtube video.

[JohnMagic 0]

It is possible to set individual pause for each slide and its possible to use a "play" image that starts the video while pausing cycle, isnt it?

[Rob 547]

@JohnMagic This topic is about PlatformPro so please open a new topic for your concern. Thanks. We'll be happy to reply in context there.

[JohnMagic 0]

Sure, @rangelone. I didnt introduce the framework in the thread though: [quote]PageLines Framework doesn't resolve this matter and if you look at the demo slides, you'll see that there's only one with a video, principally because most sliders are not intended to display video, but static images.[/quote]

[kastelic 6]

Perhaps there is some custom javascript workaround to modify cycle in order to pause on play, but no one seems to know how to do it here. Have you tried contacting the cycle developers on this?

[pehja+ 12]

I have recently noticed this dilemma. However isn't one suppose to manually push to the next feature ? When I set the feature to not transits it does so anyway. This would otherwise be a fix ? http://peterhjalmarsson.se/musik/video/ Ok I fixed this by going into the meta and set transition to 0. (probably you figured this out, but I could not remove this comment..)

[Rob 547]

No problem Peter. Glad you fixed this issue.