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I did around google and found someone with the same issue. Appears the dev on this page but I can’t find it for me like he did for him. Perhaps you know the missing link I don’t since i’m not a dev?
Hi,
That works, now simply create a Image layer and set the link of it to:
https://embedwistia-a.akamaihd.net/deliveries/aecd8428892147da77085f20ff39ac5dcb322da3/file.mp4?iframe=true;Best regards,
Josue1. I did it and now it looks right on desktop but on mobile it doesn’t autoplay on popup and has weird nav arrow over it.
2. Also, Wistia wrote back and told me “using a direct asset link in a .mp4 format links directly to your video files (aka assets) hosted through us – but accessing an asset directly bypasses the Wistia player. This means if you were to use the asset URL from Wistia ending in .mp4, you wouldn’t be getting any of our features; no customizations, stats, etc, but still using bandwidth.”
Any idea on how to work around that? I’m going to write them back to see if there’s a way to use the wistia page link (the strengthinnumbers.wistia.com one) and get only the video and not all the other page elements.
I’d really rather not lose tracking data.
I agree with them, that’s the purpose of using a third-party service, using the page link could work, perhaps if custom CSS is allowed there we could hide the page elements with that.
Best regards,
JosueI suggest discarding the direct link method because by linking a .mp4 file directly you’re letting the browser decide what to do with it (in mobile, it won’t autoplay because of data usage concerns and it won’t work on browsers that don’t support .mp4 playback).
Best regards,
JosueWell that sucks. So now what? The direct link method is the one that is the best so far. Everything else is nowhere close to a desired outcome.
What we need is a fullscreen player (not the video file URL, similar to this), if Wistia doesn’t have that option i’m afraid there’s nothing else we can do.
Best regards,
JosueOf course, Vimeo would work fine, except for – https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:111246
Wistia wrote back to me and long story short they think this link will work… http://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/uor4461zof
Here’s the full email in response to the fullscreen player question…
“One thing to try is linking directly to the iFrame source, which functions similar to that YT link you provided and plays in full screen. If you go into the embedding menu for your video, select the inline, Fallback (iFrame) embed code
In the iFrame src you’ll find a link like this: //fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/uor4461zof. You can add either an HTTP or HTTPS prefix to it, and then access that URL directly (which does use the Wistia player), i.e. https://fast.wistia.net/embed/iframe/uor4461zof
Does that help with your implementation?”
I tested the above and it works but there is an issue where on mobile you have to pretty much tap twice to get it to load the popup. Once to select the slide it would seem, and then again to activate the link for the video placeholder. Because of that the slider navigation arrows show when the popup opens.
Also, once popped there is still the autoplay issue except now it’s everywhere. Mobile and desktop.
Since we aren’t accessing the mp4 directly anymore is there a way we can 1. get around the double tap?, and 2. add code to force autoplay across all devices?
Hi,
1. It’s because arrows are set to show on
hover, as there isn’thoverin mobiles, they trigger on first tab, if you change this setting it will get fixed.2. Ask Wistia about it.
Best regards,
Josue
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