Duplicate videos when you place a video in a slide layout

Hi Chad, 

Per my last reply on that thread we did share this with our Quality Assurance team in regards to a bug issue. I don't  have any updates on that yet, but once I do we'll share in that thread and I'll connect this thread to the report as well. 

Also, you can always share ideas for feature requests here and if you think you've come across a bug you can share it here in the forums or send directly to our Support Engineers to investigate here. 

Thanks Ashley,

I submitted a bug to the Support Engineers.

Thanks Chad - and I tagged this thread for update based on the issue I mentioned we've filed with our QA team. 

Have any of you ever seen this with the duplicate video appearing with an insert video from website function in SL2?

Hi Rebecca!

I have seen this reported one time previously in this thread, but the user was not able to continue testing.

Can you share some more information about this situation and would you be able to share your .story file so that we can take a look?

Here's my story file. I used the insert video from web feature and pasted java script into the field. I can see when I publish my SL2 file there is an image generated which appears and then the video. Not sure why that happens. The video example is in Scene 2, last slide.

Hi, Rebecca -- Thanks so much for sharing your file and for letting us know that you are utilizing JavaScript for what you are hoping to accomplish. Unfortunately, we are not able to provide support for JavaScript coding or modifications, so I will go ahead and defer to the community and our JS gurus to assist you further here. :)

Thanks Christie! I have to use the Java Script method as the embed feature with iframes isn't working appropriately. 

I am having this issue as well. Has there been any progress on a resolution? Some of our videos are larger and we do not need duplication.

Thanks

Hi Jason.  Thanks for checking in; I'm sorry about your file size from the video duplication.  I can understand not wanting to bloat your course, and our QA team is still investigating this issue.  We don't have an update to share yet, but as long as your subscribed to this discussion, you'll be notified of new information once we can share it.

Hi Crystal. I am experiencing the same problem in my course. I have three different paths, which contain three videos which are the same across the three paths. That means that my .story will contain 9 videos. Is there already a solution to this problem?

Hi Roy - Sorry to hear that you've run into this problem as well.

I do not have an update on this, but since the last posting we are trying to do a better job of prioritization based on user impact and it looks like this one fits that requirement.

I'll update our internal report and bring it back to the table, and this thread is attached for update when applicable.

This is an old thread but I'm seeing the same issue today on SL 360.  I have the same video as a lookup reference on 4x slide layers.  When publishing to web output - that video appears 4 times in the output folder (story-content) with SL renaming it with a different filename for each one.  I'm thinking of the burden on mobile users and the cost to them in consuming unnecessary bandwidth due to this repetition.

Just tried placing the movie onto is own feedback master - like Chad tried when starting this thread around 3 years ago, then applying that layout to each of the layers I want the movie to appear on.  Same thing!  The movie appears 4x in the story-content file.  The course I'm building has a lot more video spread through other scenes, a number of them are the same movie file,  placed in several locations as reference/lookup.  Is there any workaround that will function both on desktop and mobile published to HTML5?

Is it possible to place the video in a lightbox?

Thanks for the suggestion Walt.  I did originally consider this, but decided to look for other options first as I find the drop in quality caused by the scaling effect of lightboxed slides to not be that palatable.  However, no other options worked so I tried the lightbox...and it did work!  Only one (1) video file is appearing in the 'story_content' folder and I'm linking to it from 4 layers on different slides.  So, a big Yahoo there! 

Lightboxing does create some problems though.  The backdrop to the lightboxed slide is a semi transparent rectangle partially hiding the slide base layer.  All good, except that it has slide borders, creating a kind of 20px (a guess),  light grey border around the outside of the slide.  I have a borderless course so this stands out somewhat from all other slides in the piece.  I'm hoping there might be a player customization setting where I can turn that to transparent or similar, although on a quick look through the player settings I didn't notice any relating to lightboxed slide backgrounds?

The scaling issue:  I found that by scaling up the video on the lightbox source slide, to 118%, very closely delivers the playback size of the original movie source.

The close button:  This is quite small on a lightboxed slide and perhaps too small really. It seems to get swapped out to a larger 'X' when you preview for mobile.  Not great UI design either way, but there doesn't appear to be a way to customize this?