Can't get Vimeo Livstream video to start playing

scotru

https://livestream.com/accounts/7962515/events/8041091/videos/186733970

I can control the video if I click the play button, but I can't figure out how to start the video playing.

javi

Could you post the web site address where you want to control the video? I'll take a look at it and see how you can interact with it.

scotru

javi Thank you for the quick response. I tried to post the address, but the forum seems to have converted it to an embed (smart of the forum but less helpful here). Here's the address with some extra spaces added.

https :// livestream.com / accounts / 7962515 / events / 8041095

They are linked from here: http://www.wwuchurch.com/worship-service-archive

Thank you again for this AWESOME project. Very impressive!

javi

@scotru I've taken a deep look at the issue and I can confirm there is no way to start the video using the available commands.

For a standard video player, it should be enough to say "select video" and then "play", or just "click video" to start the video. You can test these command in youtube.

Videos in Livestream are behind an overlay with a play "button" inside. When clicking the overlay or the "button", the video player it's initialized and start playing. This shouldn't be an issue for the extension since the "click" command would be the right command to simulate the click and then and start seeing the video. The main issue is that the overlay and the "button" are not clickable elements despite they look like that. Here the code that represents them.

https://ibb.co/nDmHMsj

Since Livestream video player doesn't follow the accessibility standards the extension is not able to play with it in a regular way.

This is not the end ?
I see two alternative solutions
1. Bother Livestream people to improve the video player and follow the web development good practices.
2. Implement a custom command for livestream. Handsfree for web can load custom commands, implemented by regular user, and extend the current voice commands suites. See https://www.handsfreeforweb.com/en/docs/

I'm not aware of your technical background, but I'd be happy to help you if you go for solution nº 2

Thanks for posting the issue

scotru

javi Thanks so much for your time in investigating this. I would be interested in solution number 2 and do have a technical background. I will review the plugin documentation. Any information you could provide (perhaps a short outline of what the plugin would need to do?) would be most helpful. I will also bother the Livestream people and see if we could get them to make changes.

Thanks again for your help!

javi

Great, yes I think bothering Livestream people is the ultimate solution.

I think you could create a custom module implementing the command play video.
The command function should search for the play icon DOM element and trigger a click()

Let me know any doubt.

scotru

Got this back from Livestream. Seems like it could be promising--but doesn't sound like I'll get a quick change. If I don't here more in a week or so, I'll assign a JS developer to look at building the plugin. If we get the plugin working is there somewhere we can contribute it back to?

Thanks!

--Rudy

Jon R (Livestream)

Feb 18, 6:46 PM EST

Hi Rudy,

Thanks for contacting Livestream Support!

We truly appreciate you for notifying us about this as it's very important to us that anyone can enjoy the content on Livestream. I will make sure to pass all of this information along so our engineers can see what you requested.

Please let me know if you have any other questions!

Thanks again.
Sincerely,
Jon R

javi

Thanks for updating the post with the latest news, I'll be happy to assist you or the js developer next week if Livestream people don't fix the issue before.