Anyone else experiencing the same odd problem with published Storyline courses with videos in Firefox.
Description of the problem - there's a slide that only contain a video .mp4. It's supposed after the Media completes to go automatically to the next slide. If you just let the video to finish by itself and goes to the next slide and try to revisit the video slide the video will no longer play - it shows the video controls but the estimated duration is 0:00 and video would not load or start at all. That's only happening in Firefox. Chrome and Edge are not affected. Also if you let the video to play just before Media end and hit Next button the course will move to the next slide and when revisiting the video slide the video would play normally every time until you let it go to the Media end.
It would be better to be able to examine the project file itself for anything out of the ordinary. Are you able to post a sample project which demonstrates the problem?
Meanwhile, I found a workaround for that bug - if I make the Media loops and make the trigger just before the trigger for automatically advancing to the next slide the outputted HTML 5 will work in Firefox as well but that should not be the norm since we don't need the media to loop.
Thanks for bringing this up. We're seeing that videos in Storyline 360 do not replay on revisit once the video has completed when viewing in Firefox with HTML5. Our team is looking into this problem, and I'll be sure to post an update here as we get new information.
I'll make note of the workaround you shared and suggest it to others who run into this bug in the future. Thanks again for letting us know it's affecting you, and I'm sorry it's slowing you down!
Thanks, Alyssa, for your reply and that your team is looking into the problem! It would be great if they fix it since with the workaround the videos are put into loop now and sometimes you don't want the video to loop but stay on last image and when changing slides you can see for fractions of the second video re-playing on background. So as I explained it's just a workaround, definitely not a perfect solution.
Oh, and I also tried putting Play the media when the timeline starts but that couldn't fix it.
I'm not sure when, but the next update of Storyline 3 should include this update as well. I'm attaching this thread so that we can update you when we can.
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Which version of Storyline are you using? Is this happening with the Flash or HTML5 output?
Thanks Michael for your reply!
Using the latest version of Storyline 360, latest version of Firefox. Exported course is only in HTML5 - we don't use Flash for our training.
I can send you a link @ Articualte Review website with a small example with just 1 video.
Thanks,
Tsvety
Here is the sample
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/289c5464-3763-4134-88ce-f606e4567a9a/review
It would be better to be able to examine the project file itself for anything out of the ordinary. Are you able to post a sample project which demonstrates the problem?
I'm checking your output now, we were both posting comments at the same time.
I can send the .story file as well
Tsvety
I'm seeing the same thing you are, Firefox will not play the media again.
Meanwhile, I found a workaround for that bug - if I make the Media loops and make the trigger just before the trigger for automatically advancing to the next slide the outputted HTML 5 will work in Firefox as well but that should not be the norm since we don't need the media to loop.
Link for the test with added Loop to the Media
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/78e48d2a-4e7b-4441-b4af-a1aa3f1b4ef6/review
Tsvety
Hi Tsvety,
Thanks for bringing this up. We're seeing that videos in Storyline 360 do not replay on revisit once the video has completed when viewing in Firefox with HTML5. Our team is looking into this problem, and I'll be sure to post an update here as we get new information.
I'll make note of the workaround you shared and suggest it to others who run into this bug in the future. Thanks again for letting us know it's affecting you, and I'm sorry it's slowing you down!
Thanks, Alyssa, for your reply and that your team is looking into the problem! It would be great if they fix it since with the workaround the videos are put into loop now and sometimes you don't want the video to loop but stay on last image and when changing slides you can see for fractions of the second video re-playing on background. So as I explained it's just a workaround, definitely not a perfect solution.
Oh, and I also tried putting Play the media when the timeline starts but that couldn't fix it.
Tsvety
Good to know, Tsvety. Thanks for the update!
Great news everyone!
We just released another update for Articulate 360, and included a few important fixes that you'll see in the release notes here.
The item you'll be interested in is:
Fixed: Videos wouldn't replay when revisiting a slide in HTML5 output in Firefox.
Just launch the Articulate 360 desktop app on your computer and click the Update button for Storyline 360. Details here.
Please let us know if you have any questions, either here or by reaching out to our Support Engineers directly.
Also, be sure to check out Arlyn's video and visit our What’s New page!
Thanks for the update -- just installed it, but haven't checked and tried to export my project, yet. Will let you know if it works for me.
Tsvety
Hi everybody,
I have the same issue with Storyline 3, when the fix will be implemented for this version.
Best
JP
Hi Jean-Philippe,
I'm not sure when, but the next update of Storyline 3 should include this update as well. I'm attaching this thread so that we can update you when we can.
Hi,
I'm having the same issue in Storyline 3 - when will this fix be implemented? My users can't revisit the video slide, as they all use Firefox.
I see there's a fix for Storyline 360, when will we get this fix for Storyline 3? See this comment: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/video-not-playing-on-slide-revisit-in-firefox#reply-478614
Hey folks! I'm excited to let you know that we just released update 3 for Storyline 3! It includes new features and fixes - check them all out here.
One of the fixes addresses an issue where videos wouldn't replay when revisiting slides in HTML5 output in Firefox.
Here’s where you can download and install the latest version of Storyline 3. Let me know how you make out!
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