Bump…

Hi 007, my channel is set up this way and rel=0 works fine without lightbox element enabled. I am guessing it’s something with the coding where rel=0 isn’t being handed off to the Youtube API.

Thanks

Yigit! Good to hear from you again!

Thanks much – you are right, I flushed browser and it works! I can’t believe after all these years that still trips me up haha. :)

Any ideas on the rel=0 (related videos only for your own channel)?

Thanks!!
Rob

Hi Hi Günte & Ismael,

I was excited to download and install the new Enfold version which allows desktop lightboxes! Thank you!

I learned it is definitely important to use the specific video url format Ismael listed above. I did notice that the rel=0 parameter, which causes Youtube to only show related videos from your own channel when user pauses or ends video, is not working. Is that being passed to Youtube?
format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwKzLYeeOMs?rel=0

Thanks,
Rob

Hi Gunter!

Here’s a support thread where we are discussing it:
https://kriesi.at/support/topic/open-youtube-video-in-lightbox-3/#post-1141911

Basically, the Video element won’t launch lightbox for youtube on desktop, only on mobile, so you have to do a workaround using the photo element instead of video element, make a photo with a fake play button to tell people it’s a video, then do a custom link.

Seems like either having the video launch in lightbox on desktop as default or providing a check box option on the element would be a lot better?

Thanks much!
Rob

Ismael,
That’s interesting – thanks… so we use an image element and then use a Youtube link. That does work – but I’m curious, why doesn’t this work on the video element?

This seems like an odd workaround? Is there a way to get the “play” button to appear the entire time vs. just on hover… when people see the image they may not realize it’s a video.

And then on mobile, it just looks like a photo and you can’t tell it’s a video if you click.. what do you recommend? Use photo element with link for desktop and use video element with link for mobile? It would be so wonderful if video element would just do this… ;) Or is there another solution?

Thanks!!!
Rob

Hi Gunter!
Thanks for looking into this.
Today it seems to be working – I don’t see the message.
The message only appears in the Enfold sidebar widget on the blog pages. “Please Subscribe to My Newsletter Here:”
and yes, the button still exists even when the error message is displayed.
You can see the sidebar on this page:
Marin real estate blog

I do not see it in the contact form in the footer, only in the Enfold widget on sidebar. I’m pretty sure I am using a different real estate plugin for the contact form in the footer.

If and when the problem reappears I’ll try the code… right now there’s nothing to fix since it’s an intermittent issue. Maybe there’s some issue with the server side caching (WP Engine) and this widget?

Many thanks,
Rob

I have seen the iframe=true recommendation in other threads and feedback from users is that it no longer works.
I tried it in this format:

and there was no change in behavior. Same if I get rid of the rel=0 parameter.

It appears from this Youtube developer URL that there is a way for Enfold to include this capability:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/player_parameters

“Embed a player using an <iframe> tag
Define an <iframe> tag in your application in which the src URL specifies the content that the player will load as well as any other player parameters you want to set. The <iframe> tag’s height and width parameters specify the dimensions of the player.

If you create the <iframe> element yourself (rather than using the IFrame Player API to create it), you can append player parameters directly to the end of the URL. The URL has the following format:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID

The <iframe> tag below would load a 640x360px player that would play the YouTube video M7lc1UVf-VE. Since the URL sets the autoplay parameter to 1, the video would play automatically once the player has loaded.

<iframe id=”ytplayer” type=”text/html” width=”640″ height=”360″
src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/M7lc1UVf-VE?autoplay=1&origin=http://example.com&#8221;
frameborder=”0″></iframe>”

I tried adding the above code to a code block on a dummy page and it does not launch lightbox either… are you sure Enfold is set up to do lightboxes for Youtube? Maybe Gunter can add a checkbox option to the video media element?

Thanks!
Rob

I am going to bump my own thread from a couple years back…. has the ability to launch Youtube videos in lightbox been added to Enfold yet? As I recall, this capability used to exist?

Thanks,
Rob

Thanks, that works perfectly!

Thanks!