[Embed Video] A simple module to embed youtube, google, or remote .flv videos

And also as a side note - I had just updated the module and was able to add one video - for every other one that I have tried after that first one it has not worked.

Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this issue. As for a youtube developer ID, you don't need it anymore. In fact, the code makes no reference to that variable any longer, so it can't affect the video embed process. So yes, that still holds! Look at my previous answer to DCNC. I explain a little more about what that error means. I don't have a solution for you. Have you tried embedding other videos from non-youtube video sites? Do they work? Are youtube videos the only ones that are broken? If all of them are broken, then your gallery server is unable to fetch these webpages. If others work, but just not youtube, well then, that would be good to know.

I just thought of something else. In my php.ini file, I have the following option set:

allow_url_fopen = On

I don't think that should matter as the gallery fetchWebPage ultimately calls fsockopen() to get the webpage. But, just wanted to throw that out there.

Hello,

I use this module with an external player (jw flv player 4.0) which supports now the mp4 files since the flash version 9.0.115.0 can do it. So I'd like this module to support mp4 files type.

My purpose is :
Getting only one movie file hosted, the mp4 file (and not both flv and mp4, you will see further why)
- Keep the flash player in one hand (which needs flv or swf file with the embedvideo module at this stage),
- and in the other hand : watch or download the movie with an iphone/ipod or any other hardware using Quicktime, following an html link for the mp4 movie, (for instance, using the short description file).

Is it possible to to get any help for editing the module code, or updating it for that?
If not, do you have another solution?... I thought about a javascript to change the file extension flv to mp4 for the link, but i have absolutely no idea how to do it.

Thanks for the answers.

Hi..

Realy like this module.. got some good use for it!
Got one slight problem and that are the BBcodes

because the picture isnt a .jpg, but just a name.. the picture of the thumnail doesnt show

http://www.topreefs.com/gallery2/v/test2/My_red_sea_max_130liter_aquarium.html

[img]http://www.topreefs.com/gallery2/d/2979-2/My_red_sea_max_130liter_aquarium[/img]

EDIT : Strange enough here it does ? ( not in a PHPBB 2.0 )
and i can't asign a picture in PHPBB2 with out a extension. ( but that is PHPBB )

Since you are providing a flv player that also supports the mp4 extension, I can make some changes to the embedvideo module that allow mp4 as a valid file type. I'll leave it up to the user to provide a flv player that can actually play it. So, if the user uploads an mp4 file, I will happily add it to the gallery album, assuming the user has done what it takes to have a player to play it configured in the module. That should be an easy change to make.

It's possible that the new version of Gallery does not allow us to modify the description with the HTML code we do for embedding videos. It's possible that another "hack" in the gallery core files is needed to allow our embed video code in the descriptions to work. Can you send the debug output page when you add a video in debug mode? Also, when you go in to edit an item after it has been added, what does the description field look like (what are the contents of the description field)? I assume you have made the changes to the GalleryUtilities.class (as outlined on the wiki page for this project) to allow the HTML code to be passed to the description fields properly?

apippin, thank you so much for responding!!

Actually, when I upgraded, it did override the GalleryUtilities.class, so I had to comment out that line again (though I don't remember doing it the first time).

Then after I did that.... I went back to Gallery and the video was still NOT there... That's when I had my stupid-moment-of-the-day, and realized that I was looking at my Gallery in another language (Portuguese) and when I translated Title and Summary in the Multilanguage tab, I did not put the YouTube code in the Description field (in English I could see the video just fine).

So duh!!!! Problem solved! Thanks for pointing those two things out!!!

Alex

Hi .. It seems that the module works fine with youtube videos. When trying with MySpace videos it always fails with the message below..

The URL for some reason in the debug broken. The correct link is: http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=41703966

Any help is appreciated..

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
Error

An error has occurred.

Back to the Gallery
Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_BAD_PATH) : Unable to extract embedded video information from url: http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=41832248

* in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 734 (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 cgi
Webserver WebServerX
Database mysqli 5.0.51a-community
Toolkits ImageMagick, Thumbnail, Gd
Operating system Linux dime56.dizinc.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5 11:36:49 EST 2008 i686
Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

Anyone having any issue's with Gallery 2.2.5? The plugin is installed fine etc.. just after i upgraded the Add embed videos is gone from add photos bit thing..

Gallery version = 2.2.5 core 1.2.0.7
PHP version = 5.2.6 cgi-fcgi
Webserver = Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Database = mysqli 5.0.45-community-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Getid3, LinkItemToolkit, NetPBM, Thumbnail, Gd, ImageMagick
Acceleration = full/900, full/900
Operating system = Linux host264.hostmonster.com 2.6.22-19_1.BHsmp #1 SMP Thu May 22 08:08:32 MDT 2008 x86_64
Default theme = nzdi
gettext = enabled
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1 ImageShackToolbar/4.5.0
Rows in GalleryAccessMap table = 11
Rows in GalleryAccessSubscriberMap table = 4670
Rows in GalleryUser table = 9
Rows in GalleryItem table = 4664
Rows in GalleryAlbumItem table = 30
Rows in GalleryCacheMap table = 2819 

LBSources,

I found out why the myspace vids stopped working. They changed the format of their webpage that displays the video. I've adjusted my parser for this video type in the embedvideo module. These videos seem to embed fine now with my fixes in place. However, the embed object type from myspace appears to be a ".aspx" now, which doesn't play in my firefox windows. However, it plays just fine in IE. So, I will be making a new release soon that has this fix. Stay tuned.

Yessss! mp4 works with embed video module editing the file ItemAddEmbebVideo.inc (Personnaly, I use external player JW 4.0.46 for the test). It's easier than change each time flv>mp4 manually editing the description field!

Note : To watch to the mp4 video, users must have a recent update version of macromedia flash player on their computer.

Tks very much apippin !

apippin,
I hope you are updating the codex page:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:embedvideo#Installation
it will prevent new users from using the wrong version.

Dave
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Blog & G2 || floridave - Gallery Team

Hi,

i have little problem with embedvideo.
I`ll try to embed my videos from vimeo.com and it says:

An error has occurred.

Back to the Gallery
Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_FILE_TYPE) : Unable to embed video from: http://vimeo.com/1709936
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1026 (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 5.2.6 cgi-fcgi
Webserver Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635
Database mysqli 5.0.45-community-log
Toolkits NetPBM, Gd
Operating system Linux host282.hostmonster.com 2.6.22-19_1.BHsmp #1 SMP Thu May 22 08:08:32 MDT 2008 x86_64
Browser Opera/9.52 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

It will work 3 weeks ago, bud now it does not work.

Can anybody help?

I have a simple answer for you. Just add "www." to the front of your url so you end up embedding "http://www.vimeo.com/1709936". My URL pattern matching is pretty strict with the domain. It doesn't have to be, but I set it up that way. I'll loosen the vimeo pattern to accept versions without the "www.". However, for now, just add that, and you'll be good to go.

Thank you very much for your help.

Hello

I am getting This Error when I add an .flv to my album.
It is an .flv that is stored on my webspace:

******************************************************************************************
Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_UNKNOWN) : Could not get/convert/extract overlay
in modules/netpbm/classes/NetPbmToolkit.class at line 267 (GalleryCoreApi::error)
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1244 (NetPbmToolkit::performOperation)
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 5.2.6 apache2handler
Webserver Apache/2
Database mysqli 5.0.37-standard
Toolkits NetPBM, Gd
Operating system Linux lublin.smartforward.nl 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 14:04:18 EST 2008 i686
Browser Opera/9.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en)

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

I just can't find the problem.

Hope you guys can help me

I switched over to using the youtube gdata API to obtain information about a given video. The gdata feed embedvideo used to get information about your video was: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/xR0-GS0hk1I. Youtube returned a "Not Found" error. That URL is supposed to return an XML file with the data about your video. For some reason, the gdata was not found for your video. The only thing I can think of is that your video was recently uploaded, and it takes youtube some amount of time before that data is available via their gdata api. I've never seen this before. I've tested other videos on youtube, and they are working fine right now. So, this seems to be isolated issue with the video you are trying to add. I've deprecated the youtube page parsing algorithm that used to get the youtube video information directly from the html code of the video page. This approach is error prone, and can't get all the details I need to embed the video with thumbnails properly, so I switched over to the gdata API instead. If this problem persists, I could add this code back in, and have a parameter that you would need to set in order to use page parsing over the gdata API for youtube embed videos. Hopefully, the gdata API will work soon for your video instead.

The problem you are having is simple. I made the pattern match too strict for google videos. I set the google pattern to be "video.google.com". I removed this restriction by accepting "video.google" as the pattern. Loosening this requirement allows me to add your video. I also improved the message output of the error message to be clearer in this regard. All you need to do to make forward progress to fix the issue on your end is to edit line 129 of ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc:

from this:
$googleUrlPattern="video.google.com";

to this:
$googleUrlPattern="video.google";

I will get this fix out there in my next release. I've actually loosened the exactness on the url pattern for all the video sites. So, hopefully, this won't happen again for others on the other services as well.

Well, maybe you were right about it being too soon after uploading because it worked this time. Thanks!

Thank you for such a great addition to Gallery! It is exactly what I am looking for. However, I cannot get it to work with Animoto.com. Animoto supports a couple ways to post things and embed them (both Javascript and Flash based).

Not sure what all you could use, here's some examples. I would love to add my Animoto videos to my galleries!

http://animoto.com/play/hYkQCzIVIk03Ugoc0Uevhg

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/48e0fae943cad8fa/46928cc5788deb29/e56a00b2" id="W46928cc51133af1748e0fae943cad8fa" height="260" width="432"> 
<param value="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/48e0fae943cad8fa/46928cc5788deb29/e56a00b2" name="movie"/> 
<param value="transparent" name="wmode"/>
<param value="all" name="allowNetworking"/>
<param value="always" name="allowScriptAccess"/>
<embed name="Animoto.com" id="W46928cc51133af1748e0fae943cad8fa" width="432" height="260" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/48e0fae943cad8fa/46928cc5788deb29/e56a00b2" allowScriptAccess="always" quality="high" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"  pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/48e0faff268e2a72/46928cc5788deb29/d8230aa9/widget.js"></script>

Yes, there is. You need to follow the instructions on the codex page for this project http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:embedvideo under the "Patching Required" section.

I looked into adding animoto support to embedvideo. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do it. The problem with the animoto video links, is that they take you to a site/webpage that plays the video, but there is absolutely no information on the page itself that contains enough information for the embedvideo script to derive what the embed video code should look like. Without the script being able to predict what the embed video code will look like or strip it off the webpage, there is no way for the embedvideo module to embed a video automatically from sites like this. The only way to get access to the specially formatted embed video code on animoto is to login, and then click on the "Post/Embed Online" link. Unfortunately, there is no way to get the embedvideo module to "login" and perform these "clicks" to gain access to the embed video code to strip and insert into a Gallery2 album page. Until that problem can be overcome with animoto, I don't see a way to embed those videos using this module. However, if you interactively get the embed video code from animoto as described above, all you need to do is create a new "photo item" in gallery that is an image representing the video, edit it, and paste the embedvideo code from animoto into the description field for that photo. If you've done the modifications to your gallery core files as described in this forum posting, you should be able to do it this way. Sorry!

Will the description field hack be replaced in the new release? I'm trying to learn how to do it but I'm totally lost even after reading some development documentation on Gallery2. You'd think someone who built a social networking site from the ground up with many features could figure this out ;)

No. I have not had time to remove the description hack this module uses. So, we are all still stuck needing to make the simple modification to the modules/core/classes/GalleryUtilities.class file outlined on the codex page http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:embedvideo.

Hi

I am having problems with this also now. I first tried with the ID and then with blank.

Any tips or ideas to make this work ?!?