always the whole videos will be preloaded?

  • Resolved horst8831

    (@horst8831)


    9 years, 6 months ago

    Hi, if I add a video in a new post. The video will be completely preloaded by the visitor.
    I have read that it is set to preload=”metadata” by default.
    But I have tested in firefox, chrome, and IE. Always the whole video is preloaded, when I open a post with video.
    I also have a video post with many large videos. When I open this post my line is running at full capacity for hours 🙁

    I would like that the videos are not loaded until it is started by the user. Is this possible?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-embed-thumbnail-generator/

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  • Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Have you tried setting preload to none? It’s an option in the plugin settings.

    Browsers consider the preload attribute as more of a suggestion than a rule. Mobile browsers will not preload anything, no matter what you tell them. In general, a browser should not preload the entire video, especially if you’ve set preload to metadata. What browser are you seeing this in? For reference, here is a test someone did in April 2013 that showed the various browser preload behaviors. http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2013/04/12/html5-video-preload/

    Thread Starter horst8831

    (@horst8831)

    9 years, 6 months ago

    Shame on me. Yesterday I looked in the plugin settings and saw no preload option 🙂
    “Auto” was selected by me. I changed now to “none”
    And yes it works 🙂 Many thanks for the great plugin.

    idem2lyon

    (@idem2lyon)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’ve set Preload to “none”. But when I’m testing with GTMetrix, it still preload videos (http://gtmetrix.com/reports/geekandmore.fr/FaBdPmPv), sometimes in full, sometimes partially.

    So my Total page size for website http://geekandmore.fr/ is about 5 MB and 22 MB

    An idea to force it to none ?

    Plugin Author Kyle Gilman

    (@kylegilman)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Preload set to none is the best you can do. Take a look at a real browser loading your page instead of a testing page. I just tried it and Chrome isn’t loading any video data.

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