Marek Dědič

Hi,
there’s no way to play a video in the browser without the option to download it somehow. That’s just not possible – if you are playing the video, that means it’s being downloaded to the browser one way or the other. YouTube, for example, tries to obfuscate the video using weird formats, but you can still download it with a little more work. So that’s that.

The console error about CORB I’ve never seen. Have you tried turning off security plugins one by one to see whether some of them aren’t behind this?

You should set the permissions to “Anyone with a link can view”. Getting a 500 error is interesting, could you please try to enable debugging (See the original thread, there’s 2 steps to it) and send me a link? Either here, or at developer@dedic.eu

Thanks,
Marek

Hi,
in my experience, there’s 2 ways to deal with this: 1) The API somehow reacts to how much traffic you have – it’s a little bit of black magic, because the plugin definitely isn’t going over the quota, yet the Google API still sometimes complains. So for my websites, it usually settled over a month of usuall traffic.

If you don’t want to take this bet, you can try to get a higher quota. This requires filling out some forms and usually chatting with someone at Google, who tells you you aren’t using the quota, so you have to convince them you see the same thing, yet you are getting the errors.

There’s some more clever workarounds we plan for the plugin, but I can’t give an ETA for that

Hope this helps,
Marek

Ok,
I can see some info now. If you ping me over at developer@dedic.eu, I can see you a fix. However, from what I can tell, there is a video with undefined width in the directory – that’s causing issues for the plugin and I can work around them by detecting it, but I cannot fix it. Are there any corrupted files?

Thanks,
Marek

Ugh, well it seems WP blocks debugging after all.
Please also do this…

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49489131/displaying-php-errors-from-admin-ajax-php-in-wordpress-4-9

Thanks for the patience,
Marek

Hi,
there seems to be some further issue with the page. Could you please temporarily turn on WordPress debugging?

Thanks,
Marek

Hi,
there’s a temporary limitation on videos over certain size – they must be set to “Anyone with a link can view” permission.

Hope this helps,
Marek

Hi,
thanks for the report, will take a look.

Anyway, as a general recommendation, do switch to Gutenberg/block editor. We will remove support for the classic editor eventually and I suppose many plugins/themes will or already have dropped it.

Marek