Hi - wanting to get started with some tutorials but unable to watch the videos due to a limited bandwidth allowance - can someone point me in the direction of written tutorial either on here or else in the greater WWW. Cheers
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Hi Julz,
Underneath every video in http://www.silverstripe.org/learn/lessons/ you'll find the whole tutorial written out as well, so you can absolutely get going without the video! In the Lessons section you'll also find a link where you can download the code on GitHub.
+1 martimiz we know different people learn in different ways (and also internet access is sometimes not the best to check out the HD videos) so we ensure that along with videos is a written version. Other option couple be to reduce the video playback quality on vimeo which might allow you to view them.
The issue is the videos auto play with no way of stopping the streaming. Even when paused they still stream - therefore the quick test I just ran cost me 30meg of bandwidth - 10% of my daily allowance.
I didn't know this, because it doesn't seem to autoplay on iPad, but I tested it in Safari and Chrome, and you are right, even if you pause the video, it keeps loading. It looks like the culprit is ?ref=hub added to the url of every link.
As a temporary fix I was able to prevent autoplay by first copying the link, then pasting it to the browser url field and remove ?ref=hub before loading the page. Please let me know if this works for you. (Don't let that page keep on loading though if it fails :) )
I agree that autoplay would probably better be disabled for video's in the lessons section, and I'll post a comment to SilverStripe
EDIT: posted here: https://github.com/silverstripe/one-ring-rentals/issues/9
EDIT 2: Not the regular way, but it eliminates the video: for now you can also find the lessons written out on Github in the README.md file (underneath the code library). See lesson 0 here (find the other lessons under the 'Branch' button):
https://github.com/silverstripe/one-ring-rentals/tree/lesson-0
Wow - thank you so much for following this up for me - In Firefox it worked to remove the ref=hub parameter - also the access via github is fantastic. : )
