How to allow videos to play in views slideshow without auto switching?

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pkchoo's picture

I'm trying to build a views slideshow (frontpage slider) that includes both images and youtube videos. I got it working, but when I click on the Youtube video to play it, the video starts playing then the slider moves to the next slide based on the amount of time set in the views slideshow settings (in this case 3 seconds). It doesn't allow the video to play in its entirety. I set the views slideshow to "pause on click" thinking that the "click" to play the Youtube video would pause the slideshow... no deal.

If anyone has experience with this, or any clue how to get this to work, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Joe

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abdul.muiz.meer's picture

After spending a day i resolved this issue.
I used pause on click functionality along with play/pause controls in slide show configuration, it worked in Mozilla and opera but not in chrome, tried to do some some changes in core but all in vain for chrome.

Than i found MediaElement module. just enabled it and changed formatter in views to "mediaelement video" and it worked.

MediaElament Module

thesean19's picture

I use it as well and it works great.

Thank you for your input.

pkchoo's picture

Thank you for your input. Since I didn't get any input earlier I pretty much gave up on pursuing this, this way.

I was fortunate to find another solution through a theme on themeforest.com (promo, I believe). The theme developer created a layer slider module that allows for videos to be included that work very nicely.

I will give the media element module a try in the future.

Thanks!
Joe