Google Sites video issues - please help - Primary School

[TwistedHelixis]

We are getting sent videos from parents of their children doing homework or building things and I have been asked to put these on the website, which is a Google Site. Reading up on this there are two ways of getting videos on the website.

 

1 - Upload the video to Google drive, browse and attach the video using the insert drive option.

Issue - the videos get thumbnail but do not play. They also do not play from drive itself.

 

2 - Upload the video to YouTube and attach to the site using the insert YouTube feature.

Issue - The video plays fine but adverts are displayed as tiles along the bottom of the video. Would not be so bad but one was for a Love Island type of program with someone in a bra, not so good for primary school pupils on a school website with their parents.

 

Any advice would be very appreciated.

[DGardiner]

for 1: does the file in google drive have anyone with link sharing enabled?

 

 

fpr 2: try adding ?rel=0 to the embed url - this should turn it off or make it only show videos from your channel

 

if ?rel=0 doesnt work try &rel=0

Edited April 28, 2020 by DGardiner

[TwistedHelixis]

Thanks for getting back to me :0)

 

for 1: does the file in google drive have anyone with link sharing enabled?

Its set to 'Anyone on the internet can find and view' I think link sharing is also on, but I cant see where I would turn that off.

 

fpr 2: try adding ?rel=0 to the embed url - this should turn it off or make it only show videos from your channel

 

if ?rel=0 doesnt work try &rel=0

 

The '&' option gives a 404 not found message. The '?' option doesn't seem to stop the adverts, although this time they only appear at the end of video or if I press pause.

[DGardiner]

ive just checked on of ours and it gets the spinning icon and no loading video.

 

if i view from my personal account/not logged in it play fine :S

[TwistedHelixis]

ive just checked on of ours and it gets the spinning icon and no loading video.

 

if i view from my personal account/not logged in it play fine :S

 

Still no joy. I don't get a spinning icon just the first frame of the video with the play arrow, pressing the play arrow does nothing. Makes no difference if the account is a domain one or not, or which browser.

 

For the moment I have just uploaded them via YouTube.