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March 29, 2015 at 12:07 am #161617
I was able to successfully make a Swift Slider with a background video by self-hosing the three video file formats on my server. But I want to use a youtube video for the background video to save on bandwidth. Is this not possible? Is this supported by any of the sliders you bundle with the theme?
Putting the youtube URL into the swift slider fields doesn’t work.The video I’m trying to use is this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=lNigMGhjf3gMarch 29, 2015 at 12:08 am #161618Here is the link as code so your forum won’t convert it into a playback window.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/lNigMGhjf3g
March 29, 2015 at 12:10 am #161619Their other link format doesn’t work either:
https://youtu.be/lNigMGhjf3g
March 30, 2015 at 1:48 pm #161906Hi
It is only possible to use self hosted videos
– Kyle
March 30, 2015 at 5:20 pm #161969Do any of the bundled sliders support either youtube or vimeo videos? If so, which ones?
thanks.March 31, 2015 at 8:00 am #162123The revolution slider does support youtube videos, but not as backgrounds, just as full width videos
– Kyle
March 31, 2015 at 8:05 am #162124So it’s not possible to float a working button or HTML text on top of a youtube or vimeo video in any of the sliders?
March 31, 2015 at 8:18 am #162135I’m afraid not sorry
– Kyle
March 31, 2015 at 8:22 am #162143OK, Could you please take this as a suggestion for Swift Slider?
thanksMarch 31, 2015 at 8:27 am #162153Unfortunately it’s not physically possible, when you use a youtube video link it pulls in the video along with the video player, so you’d never be able to use it as a background
– Kyle
March 31, 2015 at 8:30 am #162154According to this page and live demonstration, it is possible:
March 31, 2015 at 8:33 am #162158Will pass it onto the developer, thanks
December 25, 2015 at 9:09 am #237372Hi, it is actually easy to do that…
Download VLC Media PlayerOpen VLC -> Media -> Open Network Stream -> Network -> Enter the youtube link
Now open the playlist-> Right click on Video-> Information -> You will find the below part of the screen in location textbox.
This is the direct link of the video.
Just copy/past this URL in the MP4 url box… hope this helps ๐
@Swiftideas team –please add this to the slider… hosted videos are taking a lot of resources out of the server… I know it can be hosted at amazon s3 and such… but that just involves a lot of work and it could get costly to host there… not all of us have good servers… being able to easily add a youtube hosted video will help a lot… ๐ thanks guys keep up the good work!Here is a sample… I think I’ve put it on the last slide: http://los-angeles-beauty-salon.humlington.com/
December 26, 2015 at 2:53 am #237388UPDATE- it seems like youtube changes the URL after sometime… sry, but we still need this function… ๐
December 29, 2015 at 12:34 pm #237521Thanks for the feedback, we’ll consider this for the future.
– David.
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