XF 2.3 Page Freezing With Large Video Attachments

[Sloane]

I have a media rich forum which runs fine, except for pages with many attached video files. We allow up to 30MB max. It appears that once a page with large video file attachments is accessed, you cannot move onto browsing other pages. Sometimes we receive a server did not respond error, or it just pauses until it has finished processing in the background. (even without clicking on a video attachment) As you can probably tell by my question, I am not technical, but is there a solution to this like lazy loading for video attachments? Video embeds don't seem to cause the same problem.

Many thanks for your help

 

[dutchbb]

preload=none with poster image is an option

Lazy loading video | Articles | web.dev

This post explains lazy loading and the options available to you to lazy loading video.

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Or preload=metadata to only load a part. This is already used in the media gallery (with poster image).

Added as suggestion

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Thread 'Add preload to videos'

Feb 25, 2025

preload=metadata with poster image is already used in the media gallery. Only 2-3% from the video is loaded for information.

Lazy loading video | Articles | web.dev

This post explains lazy loading and the options available to you to lazy loading video.

web.dev

preload=none is also an option.

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