can you post the URL to an example where things are wrong erpol53 ?
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
Hi, thanks for the quick response. It’s a live site, so I can’t really post pages with videos that show blank on phones 🙂
I’ll try to set up something on my test site for you to look at. It’ll give me an opportunity to check if it’s some other interaction that’s causing this.
RP
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This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by
Roger.
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
Hi,
Thanks for bearing with me! I started by disabling 90% of the plugins on my main site, to check if there wasn’t some conflict there, but apparently that’s not it.
So I reproduced the issue on my test site, that you can check out here: http://s263012258.onlinehome.fr/
I disabled practically all the plugins. The theme is not a default one, but it’s different from the one on the main site. The homepage has a widgetized area, where I put the same video twice: Once in an iframe with some CSS, the other in the Lyte shortcode with minimal CSS (just the button). I have a valid Google API, which works (tested)
There’s also another problem that I see at large resolutions, it’s that the Lyte cover image is pixellated, although I chose the largest dimension for the video, 960×720 ?
Anyway, when you see the 2 videos’ still covers you’ll see why I need your plugin! 😀
There you are, I really hope you can solve this!
Thanks and best regards,
RP
afraid the site is not accessible, I only see “This test site does not currently accept external visitors” RP?
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
Oops! I’m terribly sorry, I block the site normally and forgot to open it up.
Fixed now. Just scroll down the homepage, you’ll see the 2 videos.
Sorry again, and thanks!
RP
OK, so does this also happen when the “cache thumbnails locally” option is active?
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
No, you’re right – it doesn’t do this when the thumbnail is cached locally, thanks!
The thumbnail is still in low quality though, but it solves my issue, thank you! I’ll close the site again.
RP
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This reply was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by Roger.
the reason for the vid not showing when the local thumbnail is not cached, is that in that case LYTE when on a mobile view will load the full YT video soon after initializing and it seems like the hight of the video is 0px in that case. I was able to change that through CSS while experimenting with your site, so if you prefer not to cache locally you could do so with some CSS tweaks 🙂
best,
frank
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
No need for additional Css, caching the thumbnail is not an issue. I could use a higher res image though, this one seems very small!
ah, the widget logic indeed uses hqdefault.jpg thumbnail by default (which is OK for ‘normal’ widgets which tend to be small), you could use the lyte_filter_widget_thumb filter to replace that with maxresdefault.jpg? 🙂
Thread Starter
Roger
(@erpol53)
Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll see if it’s practical to do this.
For a future update, you might consider adding some logic in the plugin thumbnail query to start with ‘maxres’ (1280), then fallback to ‘standard’ (640) if not present, then ‘high’ (320, weird naming!). This would ensure getings always the highest available res thumbnail that YT has.
Thanks,
RP
