Looping video on home page

pideja · 2020-04-14 04:38:09

Trying to implement a video sequence on the HOME page of pideja.ca/marco
I create an album template using the theatre module and named it intro; I then placed a folder named intro in the galleries; I then placed the video files (mp4, ogv and webm) in the videosrc folder.
So it's pideja.ca/marco/galleries/videosrc.
In Publisher, I created an album called intro. In the base settings, set template to intro and the video ID to intro. The video files are called intro, of course. I edited the .htaccess file according to the instructions in "Video Embedding: HTML5 Video" on the TTG documentation page.
That's a lot of "intro"s but I think it's simpler this way.
Anyway, nothing shows up on the home page!

What did I forget to do?

rod barbee · 2020-04-14 04:49:00

According to the documentation, the videosrc folder needs to be in the root of the site, at the same level as galleries/ and backlight/
http://backlight.theturninggate.net/doc … ideo_files

and then you also need to insert the album into the home page

pideja · 2020-04-14 04:50:29

That's where it is now.

rod barbee · 2020-04-14 04:51:15

that's not what you wrote above. Double check the location.
Also, did you remember to insert the album into the Home page?
I don't see any html for an inserted album

pideja · 2020-04-14 05:03:49

As it stands now, the server setup looks like this:
ftp and yes, the the "intro" album is inserted into the home page: album

pideja · 2020-04-14 05:28:07

Got it to work...I placed the intro folder within the galleries folder.

This is a dummy video as I'll be editing another clip for this introduction. And the final video will have no sound. But the structure is in place...almost. I'd like it to loop!
This code:

<video controls loop>
  <source src="movie.mp4" type="video/mp4">
  <source src="movie.ogg" type="video/ogg">
  Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>

found in the w3schools site is suggested. But where should I place it?

rod barbee · 2020-04-14 06:00:22

Not sure if you can. I'm guessing that the <video controls loop> tag would replace an existing <video> tag created by Theater.

maybe you could replace or append the tag with jQuery?

pideja · 2020-04-14 23:16:16

Finally, I got it to loop...using After Effects, I created a 3-minute loop which should be more than enough before one chooses Fr or En to enter the site. Could easily make it longer but why bother?

In the end, I'm not too sure I'll keep the effect. Glad I succeeded but I now realize the simpler nameplate approach might be better in this case.

Daniel Leu · 2020-04-15 01:41:49

Pierre, I'm not certain that it is obvious that one has to select english or french in the top right corner to enter the site, or at least it takes some time to figure this out. Just my 2 cents.

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Looping video on home page

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