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I have been using the "Basic" theme in conjunction with the "class-textobject" plugin to display videos that are hosted on Youtube. The text files and identically named jpeg thumbnail shots are put in a folder on my server and ZenPhoto has worked well creating an album of YouTube videos that will play embedded, where an image would normally display when clicking on the thumbnail.
I use the following code in a text file which references a YouTube video: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sNS-eQjn3WA?list=PLlcsMap1KHlX1ajPlhK8f_DH1ffxXdc-P" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
This has worked fine for a number of years, but now the videos do not play on mobile devices, Android or IOS. Works fine on a PC using Chrome or FF. On mobile I just get the spinning buffering symbol but the YouTube video does not load.
I recently upgraded to an HTTPS server and I am wondering if this introduced the problem. Any one with ideas about what would have broken this?
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The textobject just uses that html provided, whatever embed code from whatever service you use.
Maybe those videos are still flv/flash that for some unknown reason have not been converted to mp4/webm? Flash of coure usually does not work well or not at all on mobile.
Do these videos work on mobile if you visit them directly on Youtube?
Yes, they work fine if watched directly on YouTube. That's what is so odd. And they have worked fine for years. Can't figure out what could have changed in the last 6 months. I haven't really done anything to my ZP installation. I'll try a fresh folder containing the "Basic" theme.
Ok, found the problem. I was using the the "mobileTheme" plugin, but also was using the Theme settings to apply the "Basic" theme to the Video Albums/sub albums only. I thought this used to override the mobileTheme plugin, but it seem to be operating the opposite now with the mobileTheme plugin taking precedent over the Theme setting.
The mobiletheme if set to a specific mobile theme to use alternatively overrides indeed completely actually. It is also not a generally 100% accurat way as it depends on browser sending the right header info. Which they can refuse or modify to pretend to be another.