Why doesn't my video playback in the Dawn theme's multirow block?

I have created a metaobject that has a field that takes in a video, but the video does not playback when it is assigned as a dunamic source in the multirow section/ block.

I am using the latest version of the Dawn theme.

Any ideas?

Hi @Argonaut888 ,

I think that the problem is that multirow accepts only images. There is only image picker, no option for selecting a video. That’s the reason why you can’t insert a video as a dynamic source. Please see the screenshot below:

If interested, I’ve recently published an article on how to leverage metaobjects for your Shopify store.

You can find step-by-step instructions on how to display metaobject values on the storefront with a real example. It might come in handy!

Hope this helps! :slightly_smiling_face:

But, when you create a Metaobject there is an option to accept both images and Videos. So I have got the Metaobject to give me the option to choose a video … see screenshot…but the video does not actually play. So even if I can get the option to come up a multirow block/section will not play a video?

Hi @Argonaut888 ,

I know that the metaboject definition accepts both images and videos. However, you can render the metaboject value only in the blocks that accept the format. Hence, if there’s an image picker, only image formats will be accepted.

Try adding an image as a dynamic source and you should see the image being rendered.

Ok, thank you for the clarification. I will just manually code it into the theme myself then.

Thanks again

I find this an interesting use case of metaobjects. I am trying to add a range of HOW TO videos to various product pages (PDPs), some will have one, or another or more than one (theme is Turbo). So far no success.