Hi I am trying to use the sublime video action. I have followed the instructions. the video is an MPEG-4 movie 13.9MB H.264, AAC, I can preview the video in Freeway and Safari and it works fine, I have uploaded to my server successfully but when I check the site I can see the player and poster image but get the message (No video with supported format and MIME type found)
Please help
Merry Christmas All
Victor
It looks as though you may have the Preview Locally option enabled in Freeway. Try disabling that, and publishing and uploading again. The Sublime code isn’t being added to your page at the moment.
Walter
On Dec 26, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Victor wrote:
Hi I am trying to use the sublime video action. I have followed the instructions. the video is an MPEG-4 movie 13.9MB H.264, AAC, I can preview the video in Freeway and Safari and it works fine, I have uploaded to my server successfully but when I check the site I can see the player and poster image but get the message (No video with supported format and MIME type found)
Please help
Merry Christmas All
Victor
Hi Walter.
Thanks for the speedy reply, you are correct I did have preview enabled! the message (No video with supported format and MIME type found) still appears for a split second and then loads correctly.
I would like the video to start automatically when the page loads. I have clicked on autoplay in the lightbox setting but this does not work then I found this in the help section
Autoplay video upon page load
Playing a video on page load is possible using our JavaScript API. Please note this currently doesn’t work on iOS devices.
The following is a simple example of the code needed to achieve this:
HTML Code
I use Freeway because I no nothing about using code
Is there any other way of doing this?
I would also like the page to revert to the Homepage at the end of the video, I could use a timed redirect but this would mean the playing of the video would need to be perfect and if it pauses due to a bad signal the page would redirect too soon I think.
Again thanks for your help
Victor
Autoplay video upon page load
Playing a video on page load is possible using our JavaScript API. Please note this currently doesn’t work on iOS devices.
I haven’t written the Action to support this yet; one of the main reasons for using this or any other HTML5 Video Action is to avoid the massive bloat of a movie downloading the instant that the page loads. This leads to enormous load times (and visitors leaving before the thing even starts). Click to play puts the decision of what to play in the visitors’ hands, where I believe it belongs. It frames their expectations, too – “I clicked this thing, now I have to wait to see the movie.”
I would also like the page to revert to the Homepage at the end of the video, I could use a timed redirect but this would mean the playing of the video would need to be perfect and if it pauses due to a bad signal the page would redirect too soon I think.
It’s even more complex than that. You would not be able to guess when enough of the video would download to a person on a slow connection to begin play, or conversely to James Wages in Japan on his 300Mbps fiber line (jealous? me?). You would need to use DOM events fired by the movie itself when it plays, otherwise you really have no idea when the movie is over. And then what if someone clicks stop? What do you do then?
In case it isn’t clear enough, I am really not in favor of “guided experiences” where things happen automatically when you come to the page. Too much like TV for my taste and preferences.