Problems fetching self-hosted background video

  • Resolved stevekris73

    (@stevekris73)


    1 year ago

    Simply Static is generally working great with Bricksbuilder and latest WP. My only issue so far testing it out, is that it don’t seem to be able to fetch self-hosted background MP4-videos in containers. I’ve tried adding the mp4-file URLs to the “Include – Additional Files and Directories” section in SS, but no luck. It will play Vimeo-hosted background video URLs however, but I try to avoid this in this instance. What will show now in the static version, is what is called “Poster image (File URL)” in Bricks – which basicly is a backup image for the video.

    Any pointers or tips?

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  • Plugin Author patrickposner

    (@patrickposner)

    1 year ago

    Hey @stevekris73,

    happy to help!

    I can see two potential problems here:

    The markup:

    Simply Static probably does not know yet about the markup structure, and that’s why it’s not fetching the content of the HTML attribute.

    We have a filter to do this, but if you can show me an example, we can also add it right away into the plugin: 

    add_filter('ss_match_tags', function( $tags ) {
    $tags['div']  = [ 'href', 'src', 'style' ];
    $tags['li']   = [ 'style' ];
    $tags['span'] = [ 'style' ];

    return $tags;
    } );

    Timeout during fetching:

    Another reason for this could be a timeout while downloading the file via wp_remote_get().

    The easiest way to check that would be to use the debugging mode and search inside the log file for the URL of the file: https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/72-how-to-use-the-debugging-mode

    You can also adjust the default configuration of the arguments we pass to wp_remote_get to (for example) increase the timeout limit: https://docs.simplystatic.com/article/12-ssremotegetargs

    Hope that helps!
    Patrick

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