Lightbox Ultimate – View Counter and video on iPhone/iPad

[mack417]

Hi,

I am using the Lightbox Ultimate plugin, and I have 2 questions.

1. Is there a way to track the number of views? I have some marketing videos that I am sending out, and want to know if the people who land on the pages viewed the video. I have google analytics on the site, and can see time on page, but that is not always a good indicator, and works better for an average time for lots of traffic, doesn’t seem as accurate for individual page views.

2. I saw some notes about getting the videos to play on iphone and ipad. Looks like I would need to use the HTML5 embed code. I have the videos on s3, so i don’t know how to accomplish that. I tried to view one on my iphone and it didn’t work. Any suggestions?

Thanks again, you guys are great!

[wpCommerce]

Hi, unfortunately we don’t have any option for tracking the number of views.

We have a complete documentation for playing Amazon S3 videos. Please have a look at the s3 video integration guide here –

http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/wp-affiliate-link-manager/wp-content/uploads/wp-lightbox-stuff/docs/wp-lightbox-ultimate-s3-private-video-integration.pdf

Have you tried using any of the shortcodes from that guide? If so please share the link (where you have embedded the shortcode).

[mack417]

Ok, I understand the no view tracking, no problem.

For the other question, about s3 videos, i tried the other short code, where it embeds the video into the page instead of having it pop out in a lightbox, but it still will not play on my iphone.

I also have a question about the styling for the direct embed too. It seems that when I embed directly to the page, there is not a preview image that I can set, and I also can not style the box the same way (i was using the class styling for the image because I have a light background and it gave a grey border)

I am pasting a link below for a page that has the embed shortcode on it. I have to leave the auto play function on, becuase all of my other pages are using the lightbox option, and I need to leave those set to autoplay. But the video will not play on my iphone, and when I turn off autoplay all that is there is a black box with a play button.

http://omegasolutionsgroup.com/example

[wpCommerce]

Your video is working fine on iPad and iPhone uses the same browser (mobile safari). I’m not sure why it’s not playing on iPhone. You are not using a different theme (example- mobile version of your website) for iPhone device. Are you?

Our plugin is mainly for lightbox effect. We didn’t focus on direct embed. A few customers requested us to have the direct embed for S3. So we just added that option for them.

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