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Youtube mobile streaming


On our website we have a player that loads a video and then plays the next one when finished, but on my phone when on wifi it just sits there loading and does not start.

When I play this on my laptop it loads fine and when on my iapd it has a little lag, but will load.

So I think the problem is that the videos are trying to load too high of quality on mobile. So is there a way to set what quality the video loads on mobile? When I was reading I saw a option for loading different quality when the videos are on the jw servers, but not for external links.


Heres a copy of the code that we are using and a link to the page

https://legacyonline.church/236-2

<body>
<div id="container"></div>
<script type='text/javascript'>
jwplayer("container").setup({
file: "https://youtu.be/AegjpMaUBEs"
});
jwplayer("play", function() {
jwplayer(false);
});
jwplayer().onComplete(function() {
jwplayer().load({file:"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkEDrqwOxpU&feature=youtu.be"});
jwplayer().play() });
</script>
</body>

5 Community Answers

Heidi

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Hello, I answered your similar question via the support case you submitted. To answer the above question, playlists will not work seamlessly on mobile because autoplay does not work on mobile. Please see our support documentation here:

https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1406725-youtube-video-embed

and let me know if you have further questions.

a...

User  
0 rated :

Thanks,

If we were to host the videos on the JW servers would it work then?

Heidi

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

Yes, your JW Player-hosted videos will work best with all of the dashboard features. Plus, you will have access to the full suite of data provided via our analytics. But just to be clear your externally hosted videos will work fine, minus some of the features possible when hosting with us.

a...

User  
0 rated :

Thanks, will look into that.

The biggest feature that we are looking at using is the auto play so we can have a intro video lead every video. Then when we want to switch that out we can on all of them within a few clicks.

If we got a ad account could we still use the YouTube links, but switch the videos like that?

Heidi

JW Player Support Agent  
0 rated :

To be clear the playlist experience will not work seamlessly on mobile. You are able to try a free player for testing, you will want to start with the documentation here:

https://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1406723-basic-video-embedding-options#fndtn-method-1

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