Alec Rust

You’re seeing it on the demo too because it’s related to your own YouTube session, this is not an issue I can fix with a change to the plugin.

Hi @maxim7510,

This is the behaviour of the player itself, which is Plyr. Protected Video just uses this player to help protect your content, it does not control the player itself.

If you need a new feature added to Plyr you will need to contact the developers of the player itself.

Please see this FAQ.

Hi Henry,

You are correct that if this is a bug, it’s a bug with Plyr and not this Protected Video plugin.

I believe development on Plyr has ceased and focus is now on Vidstack so do check that out if you want a custom solution. I plan to eventually add Vidstack support to Protected Video.

Regarding the progressive enhancement comment that won’t be related to this issue. Also, if this plugin output an iframe in the initial HTML from the server it would make the YouTube ID easier to identify in the page source.

Hi @evilmc thanks for your query. This plugin uses Plyr as the video player.

Autoplay is not a responsibility of the Protected Video plugin, however it’s something you could potentially implement with some extra JavaScript that autoplays Protected Video Plyr videos after they have loaded.

Another potential solution is to not use this plugin for the videos, and manually embed Plyr videos in a way that will autoplay.

Here are some links with examples of what I mention above:

• https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/1185
• https://github.com/sampotts/plyr/issues/2537
• https://jsfiddle.net/thatguysam/zbt4b4f6/5/

This “disable right-click on pages where a Protected Video is displayed” behavior can now be switched off in a new option introduced in plugin version 1.11.0.

Hi @vascobaiao,

Maybe this is out of your scope

That is correct, there’s nothing in this plugin preventing the videos from loading. It’s your Content Security Policy preventing videos loading.

The Plyr player which Protected Video uses loads the standard YouTube player via its iframe embed method. To permit this content from a 3rd party to load on your page, you likely need to add a rule to your .htaccess file, something like this:

Header set Content-Security-Policy "default-src 'self'; object-src 'none'; script-src 'self' https: data: blob: 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'; connect-src 'self' https:; style-src 'self' https: 'unsafe-inline'; font-src 'self' data: https:; img-src 'self' blob: data: https:; frame-src 'self' https: blob: https://www.youtube.com; form-action 'self';"

Using the “Network” tab in Dev Tools you can see the resources that are trying to load on your page.

Have you confirmed it’s the Divi theme causing this issue? i.e. when you switch to a different theme, the videos load on all appropriate pages?

Could it be my divi theme

Yes. Looking at this theme it’s also a “page builder”, these are common culprits when it comes to disabling the automatic loading of the assets Protected Video requires.

I’ve noticed many of these large “page builder” theme/plugin things disable the default loading of assets, but there’s often an option in the settings to allow these assets to load. If you see an option like this, enable it.

but then it worked on my blank page.

The theme is possibly interfering with whatever page type WP Courses “lesson” pages use, but not standalone WordPress pages.

could it be because it’s behind a paywall?

Unlikely I would say.

To confirm this suspicion, I would temporarily switch your website to a different theme (like the default) and check if Protected Videos display on your lesson pages.