embed video hosted on remote sever (youtube.com or video.google.com)

What I want is very simple and has been desired by others several times from what I have read. (I have spent 5 full days trying to figure this out, granted I am not a programmer nor am I very skilled in computer languages, I still read everything I could and the answer was not apparent to me.)

<b>I want to embed a video hosted on a remote server (youtube.com or video.google.com) into my gallery.</b> Clearly it is allowed by these services as they provide the embed html code to do such a task in a regular html page. I just need the functionality of the gallery but the embed of the video from another source.

I know it can be done because I've seen it, but I'm just not smart enough to figure out how it is done. I have tried to link the item but it just opens in full browser form without being embedded. I have tried embedding the animation using "add from web page" which hasn't worked for me either.

If someone could just write a nice step by step tutorial on how to accomplish this feat I would greatly appreciate it, and I'm sure many many other users would too.

You can check out my failed attempts http://www.ebuslive.com/gallery2/v/VIDEO/

Gallery version = 2.2-svn core 1.1.16
PHP version = 4.4.4 cgi
Webserver = Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635.SR1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.28 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Database = mysql 4.1.20-standard-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Getid3, NetPBM, SquareThumb, Thumbnail, Gd, LinkItemToolkit (Unable to use ffmpeg or mplayer with my host)
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = Linux box124.bluehost.com 2.6.17-11_1.BHsmp #1 SMP Thu Aug 24 09:39:29 MDT 2006 x86_64
Default theme = ebuslive
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.3) Gecko/20060426 Firefox/1.5.0.3

Thank you for your time and help. Sorry for not being that skilled.

Post a url of what you have seen and it might help see how they did it.

The other option is the link item module.

Dave
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Blog with G2 || Gallery Frames / Mods || G1 Test Gallery

is there a way to add the dimensions of the viewer in the link? there is a plug in for flash video but you have to add them to your own gallery and not link to another site

thanks for your feedback, as i am the only one adding items i tried your fix, but i seems as if there is another check somewhere else...

when i paste this:

<embed src="http://images.soapbox.msn.com/flash/soapbox1_1.swf" quality="high"
 width="432" height="364" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
pluginspage="http://macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="c=v&v=xxxx" >
</embed><br /><a href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=xxxxxxxxxx" 
target="_new" title="dsfdf.. >Video: bla... Teil 2</a>

i get this out:

<br /><a href="http://soapbox.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=xxxxxxxxxx" 
target="_new" title="dsfdf.. >Video: bla... Teil 2</a>

so i fixed it... the change proposed from floridave is not really necessary

you only have to comment out line 859

diff GalleryUtilities.class GalleryUtilities.class_original
859c859
< /*    $html = $parser->parse($html); */
---
>       $html = $parser->parse($html);

Gallery-Version = 2.2.1 Kern 1.2.0.1

you also have to allow "raw HTML" under Site Admin -> General Settings -> Embedded Markup... otherwise no html is allows in the description field

..

I'm glad you like the module! The error you are getting has been talked about in this forum. If you look through the previous postings in this forum, you will find your answer.

Is this what it should look like?

The youtube XML Dump that the module shows you in debug mode is the exact response from the API call the module makes to youtube. Right now, it looks like youtube is returning an error "8Bad, unknown, or disabled dev_id specified". It sounds like youtube is upset about the youtube "dev_id" you are providing it. I would recommend deleting your youtubeDevId parameter. This will cause the module to use its HTML page parsing techniques to extract the needed information from youtube to embed your video in Gallery, without trying to talk the API language (which is obviously producing an error in your case). I would recommend that approach instead, unless you get to the bottom of the youtube error itself about your dev_id.

The embedvideo module needs to be able to find a watermark to use to apply to the thumbnails being added to Gallery. The error above indicates that at the URL given, it can't find the watermark image that comes with the embedvideo module. Somehow, on your gallery server, the URL the embedvideo module is trying to construct to the watermark image is not correct. If you pointed a web browser to the URL it gives above, you too would get the same error (404 Not Found). You have a couple of options:

1) Disable watermarking feature of the module:
watermarkVideos=false

2) Set the watermarkImage variable in the module to point to the right image to use for these watermarks.

I installed this module in a multisite environment and it didn't work because the internal url's refer to the site and not the codebase.

Error (ERROR_BAD_PATH) : Unable to find the watermark image at url: http://www.sitename.com/modules/embedvideo/images/G2video_watermark1.png - HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1149 (gallerycoreapi::error)
in modules/core/ItemAdd.inc at line 84 (itemaddembedvideo::handlerequest)
in main.php at line 231 (itemaddcontroller::handlerequest)
in main.php at line 94
in main.php at line 83
in main.php at line 3
System Information
Gallery version 2.2.5
PHP version 4.3.11 apache2handler
Webserver Apache
Database mysqlt 4.1.20
Toolkits SquareThumb, ImageMagick, Thumbnail, NetPBM, Gd
Operating system Linux xxx.xxxx.xxxx 2.6.9-42.ccsmp #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 21:15:46 EDT 2006 i686
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

/Sven

Thanks for quick reply. It worked fine.
/Sven

Hello, and this is my error message from debug mode:

Security Violation
The action you attempted is not permitted.

Back to the Gallery

Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_BAD_PARAMETER) : Unable to extract video id from url: http://www.youtube.com/v/D1iv37Yn8bg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 107 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in modules/core/ItemAdd.inc at line 84 (ItemAddEmbedVideo::handleRequest)
in main.php at line 231 (ItemAddController::handleRequest)
in main.php at line 94
in main.php at line 83
System Information
Gallery version 2.2.5
PHP version 5.2.5 apache
Webserver Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Database mysqli 5.0.51a-community
Toolkits Gd
Operating system Linux coruscant.snhdns.com 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Mar 15 06:54:55 EDT 2008 i686
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

I can't get videos to work any help is greatly appreciated
I have similar issues with google and flv source files.

Unfortunately, the embedvideo module expects a certain pattern to be able to extract the video id from it. The pattern it is looking for to embed a video from youtube must look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxx. So, in your case, you must format your URL like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1iv37Yn8bg. I will make a note as a feature request to support the other URL type as well. I didn't realize there was another URL format to access the youtube videos with.

Ok, I registered with youtube abd when I try to get the developer id I am sent to a google page with the heading YouTube APIs and Tools... I click a link to get a developer key and then it asks for a products name and description. I know I am doing something wrong...How do I even get a youtubedevid ??? I have a youtube developer account but it seems to be managed through google...does what I'm saying make any sense? Here is the debug info (there may be a couple other issues apparent here that I am not familiar with:

8Bad, unknown, or disabled dev_id specified.thumbnail:

Database Error
An error has occurred while interacting with the database.

The exact nature of database errors is not captured unless Gallery debug mode is enabled in config.php. Before seeking support for this error please enable buffered debug output and retry the operation. Look near the bottom of the lengthy debug output to find error details.
Back to the Gallery

Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE) : Unable to copy thumbnail from url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1iv37Yn8bg
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 350 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in modules/core/ItemAdd.inc at line 84 (ItemAddEmbedVideo::handleRequest)
in main.php at line 231 (ItemAddController::handleRequest)
in main.php at line 94
in main.php at line 83
System Information
Gallery version 2.2.5
PHP version 5.2.5 apache
Webserver Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.31 OpenSSL/0.9.7a
Database mysqli 5.0.51a-community
Toolkits Gd
Operating system Linux coruscant.snhdns.com 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Mar 15 06:54:55 EDT 2008 i686
Browser Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

The description for the function htmlSafe reads

    /**
     * Strip out all potentially dangerous content within HTML.
     * @param string $html HTML
     * @param boolean $decode (optional) true to decode entities, process, then recode
     * @return string safe HTML
     */

Will commenting out this line of code introduce any security issues -- even simply from visitors using the search form (for keywords, etc.)? With this "patch", can the search form be used for SQL injections, etc. since we've commented out the sanitization?

Can you tell me what the URL of the video you are trying to add? Also, make sure you have followed the steps on the codex page for this project at http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:embedvideo in modifying the GalleryUtilities.class file. That's all I can think of for now.

This error occurs due to a misconfiguration of a graphics toolkit in your gallery2 installation. The embedvideo module depends on a graphics toolkit to create the watermarks for the video thumbnails. Follow the instructions I made in the post to this forum on "Tue, 2008-09-23 20:23" http://gallery.menalto.com/node/65656?page=5#comment-286900 to resolve your issue. The line in emebedvideo (line 1245) shows it is trying to do the same operation as stated in that post. Yours is just failing in a different manner, but the operation embedvideo is trying to do is the same.

Win XP Pro w/IIS, PHP 5.2.6, SQL 4.1
Joomla 1.5, Gallery 2.x w/EmbedVideo

Everything works great in Joomla, Gallery

Now trying to embed a video link - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7713316088025915387

Memory used: 13946616, total: 20M

Adding items
________________________________________________________________

Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE) : Unable to retrieve thumbnail dimensions for: E:\webs\gallerydata\tmp\add390.tmp.jpg

* in modules\embedvideo\ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1120 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
* in modules\core\ItemAdd.inc at line 159 (ItemAddEmbedVideo::handleRequest)
* in ??? at line 0 (ItemAddController::handleRequestWithProgressBar)
* in modules\core\classes\GalleryTemplateAdapter.class at line 1092
* in E:\webs\gallerydata\smarty\templates_c\%%4172277918\matrix\%%3A^3A8^3A818B59%%theme.tpl.php at line 75 (GalleryTemplateAdapter::trailer)
* in lib\smarty\Smarty.class.php at line 1255
* in modules\core\classes\GallerySmarty.class at line 61 (Smarty::fetch)
* in modules\core\classes\GalleryTemplate.class at line 241 (GallerySmarty::fetch)
* in main.php at line 506 (GalleryTemplate::display)
* in main.php at line 104
* in modules\core\classes\GalleryEmbed.class at line 189
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\components\com_g2bridge\models\gallery.php at line 68 (GalleryEmbed::handleRequest)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\libraries\joomla\application\component\view.php at line 364 (G2BridgeModelgallery::getG2)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\components\com_g2bridge\views\gallery\view.html.php at line 29 (JView::get)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\libraries\joomla\application\component\controller.php at line 310 (G2BridgeViewgallery::display)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\components\com_g2bridge\controller.php at line 19 (JController::display)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\libraries\joomla\application\component\controller.php at line 236 (G2BridgeController::display)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\components\com_g2bridge\g2bridge.php at line 20 (JController::execute)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\libraries\joomla\application\component\helper.php at line 162
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\includes\application.php at line 124 (JComponentHelper::renderComponent)
* in E:\webs\BadAssRidez.com\index.php at line 68 (JSite::dispatch)

Continue...
Variable Parameters
debugOutput=true
useInternalFlvPlayer=true
youtubeShowRelated=false
width=320
height=240
externalFlvPlayer=
externalFlvPlayerVars=
flvThumbnail=E:\webs\gallerydata\tmp\Sunset_tn.jpg
useRemoteSize=true
autoStart=false
watermarkVideos=true
watermarkImage=
watermarkAlignment=left
wordwrapSummary=0
wordwrapDescription=0
Item Parameters
url: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7713316088025915387
title: Camaro SS 1967
thumbnailUrl:

summary:

description:

thumbnail: E:\webs\gallerydata\tmp\add390.tmp.jpg
mimeType: image/jpeg
fileName: Camaro_SS_1967
width: 400
height: 326

Hi,

Hope someone can help - seems like it should be a simple fix, and that I'm just overlooking something easy. I've downloaded and unzipped the embedvideo program in the modules folder, and I see it in my plugins, ready to install. Except that everytime I click 'install', I am just taken to the top of the plugins page, and nothing happens. Not even an error message! Maybe I downloaded incorrectly? I've deleted and tried doing it over a couple of times to no avail. Anyone have this problem before? Thank you in advance!

Gallery version = 2.2.4 core 1.2.0.6
PHP version = 4.3.9 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Database = mysqlt 4.1.22, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Gd, LinkItemToolkit, SquareThumb, Thumbnail
Acceleration = full/604800, none/0
Operating system = Linux 141267-web2.sciway.net 2.6.9-55.0.9.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Sep 25 02:17:24 EDT 2007 i686
Default theme = matrix
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 22
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 779
Rows in GalleryUser table = 2
Rows in GalleryItem table = 757
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 55
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 15942

Thanks for the debug output. This looks like a classic graphics toolkit problem. I would suggest trying a different gallery graphics toolkit by adjusting your gallery Toolkit Priority, and/or installing a different toolkit. The module depends on a working graphics toolkit to be installed to perform the graphics operations it needs to manipulate the thumbnail, including adding the watermark. These methods are built into the gallery api, and the embedvideo module makes calls directly to that API. If the toolkits aren't able to do the operations needed to do the watermarking, your only option is to try installing different graphic toolkits until you find one that works for these operations. This is the operation that is failing for you that embedvideo is trying to make:

list ($ret, $mimeType) = $toolkit->performOperation(
$mimeType, 'composite', $newTmpFile, $tmpFile,
array($watermark, $watermarkMimeType,
$watermarkWidth, $watermarkHeight,
$watermarkAlignment, 0, 0));

So, your installed graphics toolkit must be able to perform this composite operation. Somewhere inside that operation, you're hitting your failure.

Hi,
I've installed the Embed Video Module, mad made the required mod to the class file, turned on debug but any attempt to embed a video gives the following output and the video is not added to the album:

Variable Parameters
debugOutput=true
useInternalFlvPlayer=true
youtubeShowRelated=false
width=320
height=240
externalFlvPlayer=
externalFlvPlayerVars=
flvThumbnail=
useRemoteSize=false
autoStart=false
watermarkVideos=true
watermarkImage=
watermarkAlignment=left
wordwrapSummary=0
wordwrapDescription=0

What could be the problem? I have also attached the html file for your perusal.

Apippin, Is it doing doing a download because ffmpeg binary is not installed? I have not been able to find a binary or for some reason the binaries I uploaded did not pass the test...

I sent the following message to glasswool, and my suggestion below worked to solve the issue he was facing. I thought I'd share it here in the forum in case it is helpful for others that hit this as well:

I think it odd that the script output stops right there. The debug message you show is printed after the thumbnail action is taken. The very next thing that happens is the watermark code. So, you can try disabling watermarks to see what happens. Again, without a specific error message, it's hard to say what it is mad about.

Glasswool confirmed that disabling watermarks enabled the video to be embedded properly.

Thanks for the heads up. I've reproduced the failure on my end, and will update the parser. I should be able to push out the new version tonight.