Video Indexing Issues, Video outside viewport after update

This article presents this issue correctly, it’s how the template is calculating the initial viewport on First Contentful Pain (FCP), beyond which, Googlebot cannot see.

https://hakanarik.com/how-to-fix-the-problem-of-video-outside-of-viewport/

Hello,
This problem is due to the theme, the error from Google is correct, but the solution will be solved by your team, even after putting the video on the top, the problem is not getting solved.
You are not even talking to your developer team, nor are you talking about the solution, sending the same reply Google link again and again does not solve the problem, clear whether the solution will be found or not.
And this problem is not coming in any pad theme, this is a problem in the Newspaper theme itself, expect and work on it.

The problem hasn’t been solved, so should we all abandon the newspaper?

If they return the cost of the theme plus the revenue damages.

so what should we do? take legal action or wait for a response which at this point I believe will never arrive

Hello sir,
Is the problem you were having with the Newspaper template solved? Yes, please tell me too.
The problem is not getting resolved. I have done a lot.

The issue is not solved even in the last update. We did not get a reply from the Newspaper team if they are even working on a solution.

Gave it a custom width of 390px (450 px is default), still the issue is not solved.

Add this CSS to “customize theme”—->Additional CSS

div.wp-block-embed__wrapper{
padding-bottom:56.25%;
position:relative;
width: 100%;
display:block
}
iframe{
position:absolute;
top:0;
left: 0
}

It doesn’t work and creates graphics problems

Works! There are graphics problems if you put the YouTube link on a featured video (remove it and leave only the one embedded in the page).

This probably fixes the issue. But the problem is, the video then can’t be kept full-width of the screen for mobile devices which is necessary for great UX. And UX is more important to me then dodging a Google Algorithm.

Thanks for the input though, Tried it and with this we will have gaps (padding) on both the left and right on mobile devices.

This is normal because Google doesn’t want 100% width. You have to decide to make your users or Google happy. I would make Google happy since it decides the SEO ranking. If Google gives an error (or errors) in the search console and they are not resolved, you can be sure that they will be major problems that will cause a loss in the SEO rank and consequently in the SERP.