Parallax video embed via Wistia or other hosted service?

[ronin]

Hi,

To preserve bandwidth and speed up load time, I’m wanting to use a service such as Wistia to embed a video background to use as the parallax header in the naked home 8 layout.

Is that possible on either Wistia or another hosted service? (happy for you to suggest the easiest) If so, would it resize / crop depending on resolution?

Where would I set the url? One of the “Background Video” fields?

cheers, Kurt

[Kyle – SUPPORT]

Hi

We’ve never used Wistia so we couldn’t tell you. As long as it provides the link to the video it should work

– Kyle

[ronin]

Hi Kyle,

Coming back to this, this doesn’t work linking to a video on Wistia. It’s almost like the link has to be within the media manager to work? Or because its a tiny url? Please advise, as I need to speed up the load time by putting it somewhere with a faster ping than our site itself.

cheers, Kurt

[laranz – SUPPORT]

Hi,

Can you give us the URL so that we can examine and let you know why it didn’t show the video.. Make it’s the URL of the Video file, not some Video player code.

Let us know,

Thanks,
laranz.

[ronin]

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[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
Please use video src path url with mp4,webm,ogg like http://www.example.com/video_name.mp4. Hope that should help to you.
Thanks

[ronin]

Wistia doesn’t provide the actual “real” path. Do you know of a service that does, or does this feature basically exclude hosted video platforms?

[Mohammad – SUPPORT]

Hi,
You can use MAX CDN service to preserve bandwidth and speed up load time. Please check this link http://www.maxcdn.com/solutions/cms/wordpress-cdn/ and hope that should help to you.
Thanks