[Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Thu Aug 19 09:18:32 BST 2010

Try this

http://www.youtube.com/v/eI388V_xhws

so delete everything after the question mark

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Snowball
Sent: 19 August 2010 05:08
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Hi All

Following applies to Xerte 2.12 and pagewizards 07/2010 and may be just
related to the particular SRC i am accessing

In page wizards in getPageID ( script icon) I Replaced

//vidID = embedObj.object[0].embed[0].src.split('/')[4].split('&')[0];

With 

vidID = embedObj.object[0].embed[0].src.split('/')[4].split('?')[0];

After this change all works as expected 

Embedded code : 

""""<object width="960" height="745"><param name="movie"
value="http://www.youtube.com/v/eI388V_xhws?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&
amp;hd=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen"
value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"
value="always"></param><embed
src="http://www.youtube.com/v/eI388V_xhws?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0&am
p;hd=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always"
allowfullscreen="true" width="960" height="745"></embed></object> """

This seems to be because YouTube have introduced options or I have not
selected the embedded code properly - similar but not related to the
link in my previous post.

Also not confident that this is just  a fix or workaround ?

Other than modify the scr code itself I do not know how to modify the
online toolkits

Peter Snowball

Dept Of Economic Development

Tasmania

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Snowball
Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 12:16 AM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Hi All
I changed my security settings and wikipedia, Youtube feeds, flicker etc
all work except an embeded  YouTube.
Tried this in both page wizards and maxos toolkits - to no avial -
strage that the YouTube feeds pay perfectly but not an embedded Youtube
video.

Is it possible the video id parser in Pagewizards and toolkits need to
be updated see notice below from Youtube.
****************************
Monday, March 8, 2010
Upcoming Change to YouTube Video Page URLs

There's an upcoming change to YouTube video page URLs that we wanted
developers to know about. While it's not something that will directly
affect users of the YouTube APIs, chances are there are some developers
in the audience who have code that parses existing YouTube video page
URLs, possibly to extract a video's id.

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2010/03/upcoming-change-to-youtube-video-page
.html

************************************************************************

Peter Snowball
Dept Of Economic Development
Tasmania

On 5/08/2010 6:24 PM, Jorge Freire wrote: 

Hi Ron,

This worked and it now plays the videos perfectly. Thank you, you were
really helpful.

Peter Snowball, try this, it might solve your problem.

And thanks to everyone in the group for your help.

Jorge Freire

WKC

________________________________

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 04 August 2010 18:09
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

I suspect this is a flash player security issue...

When viewing an LO via HDD or USB Flash Player security settings may
prevent some pages from working e.g. where external data is being
retrieved like YouTube page. Right click in the centre of the LO so that
you see the flash player menu and select Global Settings....

A new browser window should launch where you can select the Global
Security Settings panel see
http://grab.by/grabs/8e20f782907a1a6a1ca306c6ee177f68.png

Select Edit locations > Add location and add the location of your LO
e.g. C:\mydocuments\xerte\ or just C:\ In my case my ext hdd is J:\
http://grab.by/grabs/27cfe11937d5db2479a6278dd47628d5.png

Let us know if that fixes your problem? 

If you upload the same LO to a webserver and view from there it should
work fine. Although there are some pages that are an exception to this.

HTH

Ron

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 17:11
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Thank you. 

________________________________

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 04 August 2010 17:09
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Will try tomorrow and let you know

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 17:03
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Thanks. The link where I got the code to embed it is below. I did try
different videos, though. Please let me know if it works.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3Qs-rpieY

________________________________

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:44
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

For what video though, I can try here, see what happens

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:43
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

I am trying to embed the code. It plays fine in the editing menu, it
doesn't work once I export it and open the presentation.

________________________________

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Patrick
Lockley
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:40
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

What is the youtube url you are trying to hit?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:40
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Hi,

I tried reopening the presentation and I made sure I published it,
before I exported it.

Thank you for the help, though.

________________________________

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:27
To: 'Xerte discussion list'
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Also did you publish before exporting?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:12
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

I don't know - it works fine here. Sometimes youtube doesn't respond -
have you tried it again?

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 15:34
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Hi,

We've recently starting using Xerte Online Toolkit and I'm working on a
presentation. The only glitch is that, when I export the presentation as
a zip file, after unzipping it, the Youtube videos don't play. The
player loads, but I get a message saying: "Player loading". And then it
doesn't...

Any ideas? I searched the archives, but did not find something useful.

Thank you for the help.

Regards,

Jorge Freire

Learning Centre Advisor

King's Cross Learning Centre

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