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Pat Sheehan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Embed Video Into Webpage

Is the last few years of embedding Dropbox videos into a web page a thing of the past? Was there a recent update - maybe within the last few days?   Embedded videos suddenly stopped working and the...
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Pat Sheehan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Wow, just checked and looks like things are back to normal.

 

Thank you...

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Pat Sheehan
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Wait... Seems to be off and on. Now off again

  • JDLintz's avatar
    JDLintz
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    This seems to be an issue again today.

    • Pat Sheehan's avatar
      Pat Sheehan
      Explorer | Level 4
      3 years ago

      Checked my website. Seems to be working for me at 1:45 pm EST. I don't use a content management system like Wordpad, I just copy and paste the HTML code into a web page using the Dreamweaver HTML editor.

       

      A new thing in browsers. If you have the video set to "autoplay", the video will start but there'll be no sound. I removed the "autoplay" verbiage so now the play button has to be clicked by the user to start the video but there'll be sound.

       

      Just discovered this a month or so ago...

       

       

       

       

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