Product listing covers

By default, Shopware shows the product cover image in listings (category pages, search, sliders). Mediaverse lets you replace that cover with a video — typically muted and autoplaying — to draw attention to specific products.

How to set a video as the cover

Open a product → Media tab.
Add or pick a video media entry.
In the Mediaverse side panel, switch to the Settings tab.
Inside Settings, switch to the nested Product listings tab and configure cover-specific playback:
- Mark as cover — tick this to use the video as the listing cover.
- Autoplay — on
- Muted — on (required for autoplay in modern browsers)
- Loop — on
- Controls — typically off to avoid clutter
Save the product.

The Product listings nested tab is separate from the Product details page nested tab inside Settings, so you can run different playback rules on each surface.

Which sources are allowed in listings

This is a global plugin-wide multi-select (not per video):

Settings → Plugins → Mediaverse → Video → Display in product listings

Tick the embed sources you trust. YouTube and HTML5 are usually safe; Facebook embeds may not autoplay reliably in grids. Any video using a source you have not enabled here will not play in listings, even if Mark as cover is on for that video.

Lazy loading in listings

To keep category pages fast, lazy loading is on by default for listings. Videos initialise only when scrolled into view. Adjust under Settings → Plugins → Mediaverse → Video → Lazy load in listing.

Storefront behaviour

Each product card shows the video thumbnail with a play-icon overlay.
If autoplay + muted are enabled and the source is allowed in listings, the video starts when the card enters the viewport.
Clicking the card opens the product detail page as usual — the video does not steal the click.