Reel 3.1.7
Improved Vimeo background video handling
This update improves Vimeo video handling, ensuring that background videos from free or legacy accounts display correctly and enhancing user experience by preventing player controls from appearing on hover.
New
- Added an admin notice in the video metaboxes when the entered Vimeo video is hosted on a free or legacy Vimeo account
Improved
- Vimeo URLs pasted in the YouTube “Video URL” field (slideshow and portfolio single post video backgrounds) are now automatically played with the Vimeo player instead of failing silently
- Background Vimeo iframes no longer react to the mouse, preventing the Vimeo player controls from appearing on hover
- Updated the bundled Vimeo Player JS library to v2.30.4
Fixed
- Fixed Vimeo background videos loading as a paused player: Vimeo now limits background embeds (background=1) to its current paid plans. Videos hosted on free or legacy accounts are automatically played as a standard muted embed instead, and when Vimeo stops their playback the video fades out to the featured image instead of showing a paused player