BL5 Theater YouTube video won’t play on mobile chrome/desktop.
Chrome Example: Episode 01-Design For War - tomswarbirds.com
This worked fine in BACKLITE 4. After upgrading to BL5 I did not republish my site with new LR plugin
BTW: Playing same video on YouTube site using chrome plays fine.
Works for me on Chrome on Mac.
On iPad in Safari it dosen’t work.
On iPad in my inspector app it works fine.
Rainer
Same here, iPad (Safari) does not work, but on my iPhone 14-pro iOS 16.0.2 it works fine
No issue for me using Brave/Chrome, and Safari on macOS and iOS.
Maybe try clearing your browser cache?
Tried that but thanks. Once again it’s Google Chrome on Android / Samsung S22 ultra, and Google chrome on Windows 10 latest update
works in Google Chrome latest on Windows 11.
(I won’t be back to my Windows 10 machine until next week)
Okay, I’ve visited your page in Chrome on my Samsung Galaxy S5, and the YouTube video plays just fine.
Thanks Matt. I tried this on my wife’s phone which is Samsung S22+ using Chrome and it works!!
This beats the hell out of me☹️. I will compare her chrome settings to mine for starters. I will report back.
Got android Chrome to work by going into Settings->Privacy and Security->Always use Secure Connects. (toggle off).
When I use https://tomswarbirds.com/Theater/Victory-at-Sea/Episode-01-Design-For-War/ (note the https://) to access your site, Google Chrome on my Mac will not play the video either!
So first, I would set the URL for your site to use https:// instead of http://. Second, enable auto-redirect to https. Both settings are done in backlight > admin > settings. Using a secure site (eg, https://), Google will rank your site higher and the browser will show the padlock icon.
This might fix your issue, or might not. But at least your site will be in a better state.
I will give this a try
I’m seeing this issue - embedded YouTube videos in Backlight 5 not displaying - in various Browser/OS configurations.
Edge on Windows 7, Chrome on IOS 17.7 works.
Edge, Chrome on Android 12, Edge on Windows 10 and both Safari, Chrome on MacOS Sequoia 15.01 all do not display for me.
Was there any resolution found for all combos?
I’ve tried a number of the suggestions above without any success and going https produced more failures.
Test building a new site with BL5 - here’s a video page:
Looking at the console in the debugger, I get following message:
Mixed Content: The page at
'https://skimountaineering.ca/galleries/2024_feb_sme/day-2-video/'was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure frame'http://www.youtube.com/embed/i_kAYRrq2Sc?modestbranding=1&autohide=1&wmode=opaque&autoplay=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&hd=1&fs=1'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.
You need to update the link to the video from http://… to https://…. Nowadays, a secure website can’t load insecure content. I updated it in the debugger and I can see your video! Lovely mountains and great skiing! Can’t wait for the ski season to come 
. There are a bunch of warnings, but not errors anymore.
If it’s still not work after changing the url, post back here.
Thank you very much for doing the debug Daniel.
And although I am feeling very rusty, it does makes sense.
Viewing the source code in the browser, I see the insecure request:
(sorry, can’t get the blockquote going to show the video wrapper and the http:// you tube ref with the video ID)
I’m Publishing from Lightroom - in which I only supply the video id “i_kAYRrq2Sc”.
(not the full http reference)
The full ref and the additional parameters are generated by Backlight - I think.
Am not sure where I would change http: to https: so that it would be that way for all generated embedded videos?
I must be missing something!
(thanks re the mtns and skiing - I’ve been skiing up in the Selkirks backcountry for almost 30 years … will never tire of it.)
Go to backlight admin → settings and set the site url to start with https. This should fix it.
Sorry, didn’t think about this before.
I did try that a couple days ago Daniel.
But it is the generated embedded “insecure frame” youtube video link ref that is just http: rather than https:
As it is generated from the video ID only, I can’t see how to make it https:
(And when I shift the site url to start with https, the embedded videos won’t even play on trusty old Windows 7/Edge … which clearly doesn’t care as much about insecure content)
That is the offending generated ref … sorry - still can’t figure out how to insert an HTML block in this reply
Assuming your installation is current, I think it’s a cache problem. Try clearing the template cache
Thank you once again Daniel.
Installation is current (within a few months or so).
As I have made a number of changes in the last few days, I pulled up the site/video page on Windows 10/Edge so confirm the video wasn’t displaying - before clearing the Template cache as you recommended. But - the video was displaying!
And the embedded youtube ref was in fact https on viewing the page source.
I was pretty sure the last thing I had done last night was revert the site URL to http: so that I could finish posting checking on my Windows 7/Edge computer. It was.
So I definitely agree - there has been a cache problem.
I will update the status after being offline for a couple days travelling … but I think so long as the embedded video ref is generating with https, the page should be displaying on the OS/browser configurations that were having issues.
