Looping videos show loading spinner for a split second before looping

[sinni800]

I wonder if this can be prevented. If you use the browser layout, it will still pause for a split second (more than the browser does natively without fluidplayer at all) but not show a spinner.

Edit: After investigating more, the split second pause seems to stem from the fact that the css for the darkening screen is fading in. So basically, if the video is looping, don't let the class for the loading spinner take effect.

I worked around this problem by throwing out the loading spinner entirely... Which is a sacrifice, but not as bad as the almost epilepsy inducing screen darkening and annoying loading spinner coming up. This is especially "egregious" if the video is less than a second long, which occurs with our (user-submitted) content.

.fluid_video_wrapper .vast_video_loading:before {
    /*background-image: url("images/fluid_spinner.svg");*/
    background-position: center center;
    background-repeat: no-repeat, repeat;
    /*background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2);*/
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
}

[cian-exads]

Hi @sinni800, I'll bring this up to be discussed further, but the spinner is trigger by the video events. If it's showing it's because the video has triggered it, which is correct but unwanted for such short videos. Perhaps the solution may be to give the option to turn it off in the Fluid Player parameters, rather than manually doing it. As said, I will look to get this discussed further.

[sinni800]

What would maybe help is delaying adding the loading class. When the loading is triggered, fire a timeout for a hundred or 200 miliseconds. If the video is still in the state of loading, trigger the loading class.

Would that be possible?

[sinni800]

Just for an update for people having the same issue until it's officially fixed:

In the current version, the loading spinner can be removed by a bit of style:

.vast_video_loading {
	display:none !important;
}

[HariPriyaKuberSingh]

@sinni800 - Can you confirm if you could still reproduce the same issue and require an enhancement in the fluid player ?

[sinni800]

@HariPriyaKuberSingh Yes, this issue is still present, We would like a loading spinner, but this way we can't have it since it still flickers the loading spinner for a single frame on every repeat cycle.

[HariPriyaKuberSingh]

@sinni800 - thanks for the confirmation.The issue is being looked into and I will update the comments based on the progress. Thank you

[sinni800]

@HariPriyaKuberSingh thank you for looking into it. It would be great if we could give our users with slower internet connections a loading indicator again.

[HariPriyaKuberSingh]

@sinni800 - we have a fix for this in production now. can you please confirm if the issue is resolved?

[HariPriyaKuberSingh]

moving the issue to closed since there is no response from the reporter