Video will not loop if its the only media in a region

[Dan Garner]

You will be presented with a grey box until the media in other regions has finished and the layout moves on.

 This is of course worse if you only have 1 layout - as it will never move on and loop the video.

This is because the client says "I have nothing else to show - I might as well continue showing this" but it does not restart the video.

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

To workaround this problem you can add a text item to the region that contains the video.

The text item should be empty and have a short duration (maybe 5 seconds).

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

Need a suggestion as to how this should be fixed.

Perhaps an option called "loop single item timelines" should be placed on the region timeline?

[Alex Harrington (alexharrington)]

Is this perculiar only to videos? If so it probably makes more sense to add an option just to video media to make it loop when finished - or perhaps even an option for the number of times it should play?

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

I'm not sure it is only for video - I believe people have also reported it before for embedded media (admittedly embedded video) and for RSS never refreshing.

[mjali (jali-mohammed)]

Just put in duration of video 0second it will be played in loop untill the end time

[Dan Garner (dangarner)]

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/xibo/+spec/region-loop