Can get video to "play in slide"

Feb 11, 2021

Videos won't play when I choose "open in slide," only when I select,  "display in new browser." That's not good, either, because the learner has to start it themselves, and it doesn't advance to the next slide -- even when I set it up with a trigger to jump to the next slide at 47 seconds. The slides in question are 2, 3 and 4. Can anyone help?

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Tom Kuhlmann

When you insert a web object link, you should test it. It will tell you if that link will play in a frame. Many videos won't.

You have a couple of options:

  • Vimeo has a share code, an iframe. You can copy that code and go to insert video from site and paste the code. Sometimes that will work. In your case it looks like it does.
  • If not, take the embed code and create a blank html page and use the code to insert the video on the blank page. Save the page as index.html and then you can insert that page as a web object and the page will load the video. You may have to tweak the way it displays.