Video playback

  • Resolved mwanamajinl

    (@mwanamajinl)


    1 day, 8 hours ago

    I love the plugin, this makes publishing photo albums to my website so much easier!

    However, I don’t seem to be able to show videos. According to the documenation video can be displayed

    "Video playback modes (shared links, proxy via fopen, or ignore videos)"

    The video is shown as part of the gallery, but when I click on it I only get a small player window, without content. How can I display the videos

    I also tried the “single photo” option, but that gives the same result. Examples in the gallery are “eagle rays” (one is a photo, the next one a video) and “swarm of nurse sharks”

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  • Plugin Author sietsevisser

    (@sietsevisser)

    15 hours, 2 minutes ago

    Thanks for the kind words — glad it’s making things easier!

    What you’re describing (thumbnail shows fine, but clicking gives an empty player) is almost always the browser blocking the video as a cross-origin resource, because your Immich server sends a Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin header.

    Quick check: open your browser’s dev tools (F12) → Console tab → click a video → look for net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_RESPONSE (often .NotSameOrigin). If you see that, this is it.

    Fix: go to Settings → Gallery for Immich → “Video playback” and switch from “Shared Links” to “Proxy via fopen”. This streams the video through your own WordPress site (same-origin), so the block no longer applies. Note it does add some streaming load to your WP server, and not every host supports it well — if videos still don’t play afterwards, it might be that your WP server does not support fopen().

    If fopen() is not supported, you may have to figure out where the Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: same-origin is coming from, standard Immich server does not send it.

    Hope this helps.

    Sietse

    Thread Starter mwanamajinl

    (@mwanamajinl)

    12 hours, 28 minutes ago

    thanks for the quick answer, that fixed it!

    i should have known to check the plugin settings, but somehow always forget that, I was looking through the shortcode options :/

    Thanks again!

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