HTML5 Video Player Problem

Posted by Community Admin on 28-Jul-2014 00:00

Hi,

We use Sitefinity HTML5 video player on one of our pages and it is set to auto play mode. The problem is that when clicking on another page we get the following pop-up message: "A network error caused the video download to fail part-way". This happens in Chrome.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 31-Jul-2014 00:00

Anyone? This is rather urgent issue for us.

Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 31-Jul-2014 00:00

Hi Igor,

We have experienced the issue before and it is actually caused when a video is set to play, however, another page is opened before the video is actually streamed and started to play. Could you please try setting your videos and player as suggested in this documentation article and let me know the result.

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 31-Jul-2014 00:00

Hi Nikola,

Thanks for your response. I followed the article and set up everything according to it, but still no success - the issue still exists.

Any other suggestions?

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2014 00:00

Hi Nikola,

Can you please provide me with an update? This is very urgent.

Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2014 00:00

Hello Igor,

Could you please tell us the Sitefinity version you are using? I tested on Sitefinity 7.1 and Chrome latest version and could not reproduce the issue, with and without auto play. Furthermore, full steps to reproduce will be very helpful for us, to investigate the issue.

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2014 00:00

Hi Nikola,

We are on Sitefinity 7. You may check the issue on the staging server - qfba-test. gulfstaging. net.

Autoplay is turned off now and you need to play the video to reproduce the issue.

Thanks

Posted by Community Admin on 04-Aug-2014 00:00

Hello Igor,

This behavior is Chrome browser specific and I can't really tell whether they have logged it in their trackers. It results when the video is not fully loaded and is being still streamed and is navigated out of the page. You can find what throws the exception and more information here. To overcome the issue, you can try to map the video player template and add the following script:

window.onbeforeunload = function ()

var player = $find('<%= mediaPlayer.ClientID %>');

player.stop();

;

The template is: Telerik.Sitefinity.Resources.Templates.Frontend.Libraries.Videos.Html5MediaPlayerControl.ascx
Default one is:

<%@ Control Language="C#" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="sitefinity" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI" %>

<%@ Register TagPrefix="sf" Namespace="Telerik.Sitefinity.Web.UI.PublicControls.BrowseAndEdit" Assembly="Telerik.Sitefinity" %>

<sitefinity:SitefinityLabel id="title" runat="server" WrapperTagName="h2" HideIfNoText="true" HideIfNoTextMode="Server" CssClass="sfmediaFieldTitle" />

<div id="playerContainer" class="sfPlayerWrp" runat="server">

<telerik:RadMediaPlayer ID="mediaPlayer" runat="server" AutoPlay="false" FullScreen="false" Width="640px" Height="360px" Skin="Default">

<PlaylistSettings Mode="Buttons" ButtonsTrigger="Hover" Position="Vertical"/>

</telerik:RadMediaPlayer>

<div id="unableToPlayVideo" runat="server" class="sfPlayerError" style="display: none;">

<div class="sfPlayerErrorWrp">

<span class="sfPlayerErrorImg"></span>

<sitefinity:SitefinityLabel ID="unableToPlayVideoLabel" CssClass="sfPlayerErrorMsg" WrapperTagName="p" Text="<%$Resources:VideosResources, UnableToPlayVideo %>" runat="server" />

</div>

<sf:BrowseAndEditToolbar ID="MediaPlayerBrowseAndEditToolbar" runat="server" Mode="Edit"></sf:BrowseAndEditToolbar>

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik

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Posted by Community Admin on 05-Aug-2014 00:00

Thanks Nikola!

We modified the script a bit and it resolved the issue.

Posted by Community Admin on 05-Aug-2014 00:00

Hello Igor,

I am glad you have managed to resolve the issue. Write back to us if we can assist further.

Regards,
Nikola Zagorchev
Telerik

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