Hello Guys,
I keep having issues with publishing some videos on my website. Every time I make an update, Sitely somehow loses the links to the videos and doesn’t publish them. I’ve tried various solutions, but none of them worked. Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Problem solved…
I noticed that if you set the video as ‘from the original location’ (I have the Italian version and don’t know if the translation of the setting is correct) for some reason the video doesn’t load. If instead you set the option ‘in this document’ then the problem is solved.
I wonder what the difference between the two is and the reasons for the malfunction.
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If you move the video file it won’t be found and cannot load. Storing it in the document solves that possibility, but increases file size.
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Thank you very much!
I’m seeing a similar issue. Originally, I took a video object from the import of my existing website. that video object links to a YouTube video. it plays just fine on my existing website.
When I preview the page with the object from Sitely, the video does not play and is not interactive.
So I tried a local disk export to see if, browsing that would work. no go.
I’ve also tried to use the original video file that I uploaded to YouTube and end up with the same issue. Will this only work when published to an actual web server?
Maybe you should send your Sitely project file over to @duncan explaining your situation with your video not playing.
From my end when working with a video I have no issues with it in Preview. I can manually start the video or I can have it auto start on page load - I just have to turn on the sound which is something Sitely has no control over.
You can contact Duncan on feedback@sitely.app
Thanks for that suggestion. I’d rather not hassle Duncan directly this close to Christmas break. As it happens, reopening the project seems to have changed something. the preview now auto plays if so configured, though no audio, even when I unmute the Mac. If I change it to not-auto play I now get a “play” button, but it’s not interactive. I’m wondering if I have something running in Safari causing interference.
OK. solved I think. I was “embedding” the image behind a Mac bezel image so that it would look like the video was playing within the Mac. With the image in front, it was intercepting the user interaction with the video behind it.
yes that was it. interestingly, this also fixed the sound issue.
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Just a general note about “embedding” issues, by which all of us get sidetracked so often. If you have the screen real estate available, show the Pages & Layers sidebar and make sure the Layers column is visible. Everything except dim items is click-selectable there, draggable, and usually nameable too (Dim items aren’t active on the current device.) The best part of the Layers list is it’s in Z-order - top (frontmost) to bottom (backmost). Except perhaps for main menus, your video, with embedded controls, surely would need to be at (or could be dragged to) or near frontmost, and reflected that way in the list. Personally, I’ve learned to do almost all of my click selection of items on a page from the Layers list.
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thanks. I’ve only just noticed yesterday that there were even tabs there to click on. they were not registering to me at all visually (perhaps this is something that could be made more obvious @duncan).
I’m really really struggling with the way the app is not scaling text and layout from one device to another the way I thought it would. I thought I was done with the blogs but then discovered that the phone portrait was total rubbish.
so much work to redo the blogs for each device size. and now that I know those tabs are there I can track more things to hopefully help.
I’m glad I’ve chosen only to bring across the most recent blog entries from the old site. too much work for no point otherwise. I could probably do away with the blog entirely and may yet do so if I don’t get a decent solution soon.
@pkclsoft you need to think fixed-width responsive… not fluid-width responsive.
There is a bit more initial work involved with fixed-width responsive as you are finding out. For me I would have created the one blog post and then fully completed (including mobile) it and used that to create duplicates. I would then have taken a copy of the text of your next post that you have online and pasted it into your second blog post within Sitely and so on…
yep. I feel right now that I’m going to start a new thread on this. On Christmas Eve I found another thread where I wanted to moan about my issues and decided it was not in the spirit of the day. then I hit this one again yesterday and weakened.