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Thanks for looking into it @arminunruh,
Lazyloading videos seems to work well in Chrome, but it doesn't in Firefox.

@arminunruh
Here is the link to the website, that I'm developing at the moment:
https://develop.uber.space/

This page has several different videos (autoplay, as row-background and non-autoplay), and depending on the browser, they sometimes load at the beginning of the page-load (even if they aren't needed) and block other content to be loaded faster.
Thanks for looking into it.

I did a bit more testing (this time in Chrome), and it seems that Chrome behaves very different than Firefox in terms of preloading autoplay videos. In Chrome I didn't really see a need vor Lazyloading Videos, because the browser itself seems to take care of this and does it quite efficient.
But being able to set the preload tag by yourself would be good for Chrome too and especially for the mobile versions of the page, because random preloads aren't really necessary for all videos and being able to decide that would be great.
Thanks

Hi,
I'm using Fullscreen Slider with quite a lot of HTML5 embedded videos and video backgrounds and I was wondering if there is a way to change how these videos are preloaded, because it slows down the pageload a lot.
My main concern are videos that don't autoplay (unchecked) and which the user has to start playing by clicking on them (which he never might). They are embedded with the setting preload="auto", which means most browsers will preload the entire video (which can be huge) and in the end, maybe for no reason. I would prefer preload="metadata" for these videos. Maybe this could be a setting to choose or would happen automatically if autoplay is unchecked and Standard Controls are checked. That would help a lot and speedup the whole pageload.
Also:
I understand that autoplay videos have to be preloaded, but if there is no video on the first slide, maybe the preloading could start after the first slide has been rendered or in some form of lazyloading? Is there a way to influence this behaviour? At the moment the preloading of a few videos at the same time seems to block the rendering of the page significantly and nothing is shown for a long time, while the videos are loading and blocking bandwidth. I came across a few JS based exemples of lazyloading videos like this one https://web.dev/lazy-loading-video/ but to be able to use them I would need to add a class to the video tag, which I can't at the moment.

I hope there is a solution to this. Thanks.

Sorry, but this still sounds like taking credit for someone else's work and trying to resell it as your own to your clients.

Thanks @arminunruh
It's working now

You can use the new website www.laykeymanager.com > enter your key or email address > you'll receive a temporary link and you can download older LayTheme Versions > in Wordpress just install the downloaded ZIP file like a new theme and Wordpress will tell you that it already exist and ask if you want to downgrade to this version > say Yes and it is done

I got the same error message and I had to downgrade to an older version. I also hope it is possible to fix it soon.

I just upgraded to version 5.3.4 of Fullscreen Slider Addon and now it is a total mess. Whereever I use a not-autplaying video (= autoplay unchecked), I can't scroll further then this slide. All slides after this, won't be rechable. I hope you could change this and go back to as it was and hopefully fix the scrolling back up freeze issue.
I also found no way to go back to an older version by myself, since Fullscreen Slider Addon seems to be missing at the new https://www.laykeymanager.com option. Are there any plans to include it too?
Thanks

Thanks @arminunruh,
Checking "Autoplay videos when arriving on a slide" solves it, but unfortunately this autoplays all videos, also the ones, that haven't the autoplay function checked. I use some autoplaying silent videos, for decorative purposes and then some Video-Trailer to be played by the visitors.

So overall, this is not such a good solution and I'm not sure enabling "Autoplay videos when arriving on a slide" by default is the best solution, because it might confuse everybody, who purposely disables autoplay in the video settings, and then it still autoplays.

The best would be, if the video could do exactly what is checked in the video settings, when embedding it.
Which it also does, except for the case, of scrolling back up to a 'normally' embedded autoplay video.
Why does the player behave different when using "Set row video background", because there the freeze problem doesn't happen?

(Sorry that I can't send a link just yet, because at the moment I'm developing this site locally.)

Hi,
I'm using the Fullscreen Slider addon and when I put a Html5 video into a row to be shown as one of the slides, I noticed the following behaviour. (Checked settings for the video are: Autoplay, Loop and Mute, everything else is unchecked and no placeholder image is added)

The video autoplays when I'm scrolling to this slide, as it is supposed to. That's good. But when I keep scrolling further to other slides, and scroll back up later, back to the video slide, the video is frozen. It shows a still image, no controls and no way to get it back playing, except reloading the page.

This just happens when I implement the video as a normal video element. "Set row video background" doesn't have this bug and keeps playing when you scroll back to it.
My browser is the latest version of firefox.
This is quite a weird and sowewhat annoying behaviour and I hope it is possible to fix it.
Thanks.

Hello,
I'm trying to build a website with the Fullscreen slider plugin, and I can't figure how to make images fit vertically so they don't get cut off at the bottom or at the top and put some text next to them.
I tried to give them a class with "Set HTML Class and Id", but this just effects their DIV container, and the Image ist still cut off vertically. I tried "Use browser height for row height", but this also had no effect on the oversized image.
The only thing that worked so far was the fullscreen slider setting "Give elements a max-width and max-height and center them", which centers the image and stops it from being cut off, but with this setting, I can't stop the text from overlapping the image.
I also searched the forum and couldn't find an answer. I really hope someone can help me, because I didn't expect that to be so tricky.

To sum it up: I want to avoid that any content in a specific fullscreen slider row is cut off vertically.

Thanks so much.

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to preload links in the background, so when the user clicks on a project in the projet grid, the content especially images are shown faster and the whole experience becomes more smooth.
Normally there are Wordpress plugins like Flying Pages or Quicklinks for Wordpress for this (for prefetching links in the viewport or links on hover), but none of them are working and caching anything. Since laytheme is using Ajax to load new content, is there a way to do this with Ajax? Or did someone find a working plugin or another workaround for this?
Thanks

I did a little more testing and debugging for this WOFF Font problem and I really hope someone can help me to figure it out.
The upload and Wordpress MIME Type recognition is not the problem and works with TTF, WOFF and WOFF2 Fonts.
But the Laytheme fontsmanager just recognizes the Type correctly for TTF and WOFF2 Fonts = "attachment/truetype" for TTF or "attachment/woff2" for WOFF2.
For WOFF Fonts it just says "attachment/"

Hi @arminunruh
At the moment I'm developing the website offline with Local WP, so I can't really send you a link. Anything also that I could try to make LayTheme recognize Woff fonts? The Media Library recognizes them as fonts btw, file format (MIME Tyep) is font/woff
Thanks

I added the fonts via Lay Options > Webfonts, but this also opens the Media Library uploader. The media library also recognizes the file type as a font, but there is no way to add the font to Lay Options or use it in a text format.

I have a problem adding .woff Fonts to Laytheme Webfonts. I can upload TTF, WOFF and WOFF2 files into the media library, without any problems, but when it comes to adding webfonts via Lay Options it doesn't recognise WOFF files, but it recognises the TTF and WOFF2 files. I tried this with different fonts too and the same issue occurred. It doesn't seem to be the typical Wordpress MIME upload problem.

Hi @arminunruh
It seems to work for images in the thumbnail grid and for images in posts, but not for images in the carousel plugin. Could you please change the Alt-Tag position there as well.
Thanks

Thanks so much, that would be great.

Hi,
I really like the possibility to add an image Alt Tag to all images through the laytheme settings, e.g. to add a company's name to all images. But because the Alt Tag is also used by screen readers and an important part of accessible web design, it is not so useful to add this site-wide alt tag before the existing Alt-Tag, because that's what a screen reader always reads first and its quite repetitve that way. I would prefer to add this Alt-Tag behind the existing Alt-Tag? Is it possible to change that or would it be possible to choose in the settings, if it should be added, before or behind the existing tags?
Thanks so much.