Video play/pause toggle on click

Done.

Just now had the same issue, and i find another solution based on Ashley comment,

I changed the video options,

In the options bar, i changed the option "Play video" to "From trigger", this disable the option to click the video, so you cant stop it with a click,

Altough you need to add a little trigger to start the video, in my case, i need the video to start at the begining of my slide so i add the following trigger,

To start the video when the timeline of my slide starts;

In case you need to start the video at certain time you can use the trigger when "Timeline reaches" and set the time, so i guess its a 3 solution.

Sorry for the bad english have a great day.

Thanks Alejandro for sharing here - and the English was great. That's a nice find you shared as well in regards to preventing the user from clicking on the video. 

Hi -

If you put a square over the video to try and block the user from clicking it as suggested, you can't set the fill to "no fill".  You instead have to pick any color and set the transparency to 100% using the Format Shape option.  THAT will fix the problem for you, and I find it to be simpler and faster than trying to set up triggers, layers, or hotspots.

Good luck!

Glad to hear it Pablo, it's a much older discussion so I'm not sure if Alejandro is still subscribed - but if you need any other help just give us a shout.

I'm a fan of the transparent, solid fill shape on top solution and would add that if you use it, make sure to also hide the video from accessibility tools, since without that, someone using keyboard navigation could still tab to the video and hit enter to play/pause it. And if you had wanted to alt tag the video so screen reader users knew it was there, just alt tag the transparent shape instead.

Hiding the video from accessibility tools isn't necessary with Adam's layer solution, as the Prevent users from clicking on the base layer setting also essentially hides everything in the base layer from accessibility tools while that layer is open.

Thanks for popping in to share Douglas :)

For  newbies like me: When putting the shape on the slide, right click on the shape and select "Format Shape" this is where you will see the option to change the transparency.

This is the only thing I have found that will work. Even a layer seems to allow me to start and stop the video and that really interferes with any other objects I have on the screen, as everything falls out of sync.

Thanks Blake!!!

I typically set mine to 99% just in case...but 100% should work fine. 🙂 

If you're running into a problem with a file, feel free to upload here Vicki and we'll take a look! 

I think I just answered my own question.  I unchecked the "hide other slide layers" box and that seemed to remove the gray shade over the video.