[Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

Fri Aug 20 01:22:14 BST 2010

Thanks

Hacking the SRC in the Utube embedded code (delete everything after the question mark ) works both in templates and toolkits.

It is easier than hacking the code but  will toolkits be updated ?

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 Patrick Lockley
Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 6:19 PM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Problems playing a Youtube video

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
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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&amp;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.
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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

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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

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

Thank you.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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
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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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 17:03
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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

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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
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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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:43
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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.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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
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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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jorge Freire
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:40
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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.

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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
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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> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 04 August 2010 16:12
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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> [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<mailto: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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