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

I was able to add it to the code base. However, the embedded video does not come up playing in full screen mode. It simply allows the user to click the full screen button and have it actually work. So, since it doesn't appear to affect the video itself being in full screen mode or not when it starts playing, but simply allows for it to happen, I won't add a specific option to enable this feature. I will simply add the allowFullScreen property by default and set it to true. Since it has no affect on the server if it is allowed or not, simply enabling it by default seems to be the right call. The embedded video will start up in its given size, and the user will then be "allowed" to fullscreen it if they wish. How does this sound?

Thanks for all the great work. Though Google has stopped offering video hosting since they bought YouTube, so that will be one less format to deal with (though they still continue to host any previously uploaded content). Now I'm having trouble with YouTube. I uploaded 3 vids, and 2 of them embedded fine. The 3rd one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pgc1lSMwo) fails with the following:
Error (ERROR_BAD_PATH) : Unable to get video information at url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0pgc1lSMwo - HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found

* in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 229 (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 /var/local/g2data/smarty/templates_c/%%626616196/carbon/%%2E^2E1^2E11E2E2%%theme.tpl.php at line 141 (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 main.php at line 88

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Variable Parameters
debugOutput=true
useInternalFlvPlayer=true
youtubeShowRelated=false
width=640
height=480
externalFlvPlayer=
externalFlvPlayerVars=
flvThumbnail=
useRemoteSize=false
autoStart=false
watermarkVideos=false
watermarkImage=
watermarkAlignment=left
wordwrapSummary=0
wordwrapDescription=0
Youtube URL Parsing Results
video_id: L0pgc1lSMwo
extra_embed_params:
gdata feed: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/L0pgc1lSMwo

I've just released a new version of embedvideo, version 1.1.4, and have attached it here.

Here are the release notes for 1.1.4:
- Fixed dailymotion parsing algorithm.
- Added new allowFullScreen youtube parameter.
- Fixed google video thumbnail parsing algorithm.

Check out the wiki page for this project, specifically, the install section!

http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:embedvideo#Installation

Hello

I just installed this wonderful module and it works almost fine, thanx for the great idea !!!

Unfortunately, I get two little problems with it :

1) I can't add any variables, I can delete them but can't add any... I click on "add variable" the page reload but no change on the list.
Is there another way for me to change the variables ? I tried modifying the module.inc but it did not help.

2) The video places itself in my item title and description field, which does not look nice, I would like the video to be on the photo field, with or without the frame around it, I don't care.

See for yourself :

http://www.coquille.org/gallery/v/reports/cowfight/kingsqueens/Swiss-China_expo_in_Guangzhou.html

Any boday has an idea ?

PS : I am using PGLightbox theme....

Gallery version = 2.3 core 1.3.0
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Database = mysql 5.0.68, lock.system=flock
Operating system = Linux

You haven't overlooked anything. This module overrides the description field with the code to embed the video. That has some unfortunate side effects, but it is the only way the module works today. One of those side effects is the thumbnail being displayed (the photo) along with the video (the description). To work around this issue, you would need to modify your theme. Others have posted in this forum various ways to do that. You'd have to search this message forum to see how they worked around this in their themes.

Thank you apippin and Dave for your answer.

1) I tried to change the values in ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc but I get no changes online, seems like smth is overwriting what I want, even if I have no variable in the module admin page.

2) I guess I'll have to create a new theme just for video albums, so I can change gidescription to align:center and then find a way to get rid of the thumbnails. I will check in the forum how to do it. and let you know where I found what

Petri

Gallery version = 2.3 core 1.3.0
API = Core 7.54, Module 3.9, Theme 2.6, Embed 1.5
PHP version = 5.2.6 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.52 (CentOS)
Database = mysql 5.0.68, lock.system=flock
Operating system = Linux

I don't understand how you and Petri are hitting an issue with setting variables for the module using the gallery framework. Since this mechanism is one that uses the gallery framework, I'm not sure why it is failing. I would look at the logfiles that gallery dumps to and see if you see any error messages or other things going on when you try to save the variables in the admin section. Again, it is a gallery configuration problem of some kind. I'm also not sure why modifying the default values I assign the variables in the .inc file isn't working, I think that should work. For example, if I wanted to change the value of allowFullScreen, I would do this:

Change this code:
$allowFullScreen = $this->getParameter($ItemAddEmbedVideo, 'allowFullScreen', "false");

To this:
$allowFullScreen = "true";

I tried to figure out a way to get the youtube embeded videos to playback in full screen mode. You have to click a button on the embedded video to get it to play in full screen mode, but I couldn't find a way to get it to come up that way by default.

As for changing the thumbnail of an embedded flv file, I think you can edit the item after it is added, and upload a new thumbnail image as a new "photo" (Modify Photo -> Reupload photo). That's the best answer I can come up with at the moment in that regard!

thanks apippin great module...

Just installed embedvideo today and it looks great for youtubes, etc. I am trying to link directly to a swf, and I get the following:

Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE) : Unable to copy thumbnail from url: http://www.buzzardsroost.us/gallery2/modules/embedvideo/images/G2video_thumbnail.jpg - HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1065 (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 g2data/smarty/templates_c/%%1013030616/carbon/%%2E^2E1^2E11E2E2%%theme.tpl.php at line 142 (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 main.php at line 88

The thumbnail works fine directly linking : http://www.buzzardsroost.us/gallery2/modules/embedvideo/images/G2video_thumbnail.jpg

Any ideas?

Hello.

I have a very simple problem. I have made the required change to line 859, and have enabled Raw HTML. After copying the unzipped folder to my modules directory, the option to add or install the module doesn't appear in my plugins page??? Did I put it in the wrong directory? I'm new to this, and have never installed a module this way before.

Thank you,
Scott McNeil

Disregard. I copied the directory as awhole, without eliminating the first layer folder. Sorry..

You can enable Full screen in youtube embeded videos, just set the allowFullScreen option to true. You can manually add a thumbnail for an .flv video. After adding it, edit the photo item in gallery, and upload a new thumbnail via the photo properties.

I've just released a new version of embedvideo, version 1.1.5, and have attached it here.

Here are the release notes for 1.1.5:
- Added support for Animoto embedded videos.
- Added new centerVideo parameter.

Any chance that you might add a feature to force the video to open in a popup window? I'd like to to be able to force a new window from the thumbnail click. Ideally, in combination with the ability to force full screen, and autostart...

Hi all; apippin there some way to combine your video embed script with the script located in http://1.leefjedichter.nl, this script allows you to use the link to the video on youtube hq format and pass it as a variable to the JW PLAYER, because when inserting youtube videos in other pages uses the low quality and the HQ & HD buttons are disabled to embedded videos (using the youtube´s player), I think it might be interesting, in fact all we need to do this is to modify the "flashvar" "file" with the path that returns the php file that I mentioned, the instructions in the site of the script are:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.jeroenwijering.com/embed/swfobject.js"></script>

<div id="player">Please install the newest version of the adobe flashplayer and enable javascript.</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
var so = new SWFObject('mediaplayer/player.swf','mpl','470','320','9');
so.addParam('allowscriptaccess','always');
so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true');
so.addParam('flashvars','&file=http://yourwebsite.com/[folder]/video/index.php[Parameter]&type=video');
so.write('player');
</script>

Full instructions are in http://1.leefjedichter.nl/yt/readme.php

The script needs to be passed one parameter, plus the video ID and it automatically returns the path for the reproduction in jw player to start in the best possible quality rather than low quality by default uses youtube, I tried to modify your script and from there call the php script, but I can not do it, I replaced from the line 308 to line 316 in file ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc of your module, with these lines:

/* Format the description to hold a reference to the embedded video */
		   $macromedia_url = "http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/";
		   $description = '<script type="text/javascript">'."\n";
		   $description.= '// <![CDATA['."\n";
		   $description.= 'function divResize(id, nw, nh) {'."\n";
		   $description.= 'var obj = document.getElementById(id);'."\n";
		   $description.= 'obj.style.width = nw + "px";'."\n";
		   $description.= 'obj.style.height = nh + "px";'."\n";
		   $description.= '}'."\n";
		   $description.= '// ]]>'."\n";
		   $description.= '</script>'."\n";
		   $description.= '<div id="flashvideo" style="align:left;width:525px;height:392px">'."\n";
		   $description.= '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000"';
		   $description.= 'codebase="'.$macromedia_url.'swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0"';
		   $description.= 'width="100%" height="100%" id="IFid1" class="ImageFrame_image">';
		   $description.= '<param name="movie" value="'.$gallery2_url.$gallery2_flv_player.'"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="FlashVars" value="flvUrl='.$url;
		   $description.= '&Width='.$width.'&Height='.$height.'&title='.$title;
		   $description.= '&allowDl=true&thumbUrl='.$thumbnail.'&autoStart='.$autoStart;
		   $description.= '&langDownload=Download&langLarge=Large&langNormal=Normal"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="quality" value="high"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="scale" value="noscale"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="salign" value="lt"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>';
		   $description.= '<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/>';
		   $description.= '<embed src="'.$gallery2_url.$gallery2_flv_player.'" ';
		   $description.= 'flashvars="flvUrl='.$url;
		   $description.= '&Width='.$width.'&Height='.$height.'&title='.$title;
		   $description.= '&allowDl=true&thumbUrl='.$thumbnail.'&autoStart='.$autoStart;
		   $description.= '&langDownload=Download&langLarge=Large&langNormal=Normal" ';
		   $description.= 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash" ';
		   $description.= 'width="100%" height="100%" quality="high" scale="noscale" salign="lt" ';
		   $description.= 'wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" ';
		   $description.= 'pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>';
		   $description.= '</object></div>';
	       }

but I can not insert the "flashvar" "file" calling the other php, or use "swfobject.js" which is the most currently used to embed the player... (the flashvar *file* is equal to *flvUrl*)...these lines are of your code section to add a flv or mp4, which is the file that the script comes from youtube,
I appreciate any help or indication to initiate change, thank you, excuse my bad English but I speak Spanish and little English.

hhtmp88 to embed the player in facebook have to send them a request, just say so in your page:
"* To make your videos embeddable on Facebook, please send a request using this form. Your request should include the domain names of the values you will use for the video source URL (in the link tag video_src above). You must do this to Ensure your videos play correctly. "
Official info here: http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Facebook_Share/Specifying_Meta_Tags

You also have to define the tags to the script of facebook recognize your videos and your thumbnails.. bye

Lol, please somebody answer my question...

Thanks in advance...

David P.

did you solve this?

Not sure if this was covered, but I couldn't add variables in Safari, but when I switched to Firefox, I could. Everything else seems to work in Safari.

Hi,
I have embed video 1.1.5 on my gallery many years and everything was fine until today. When i add video from Vimeo, it says:

Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE) : Unable to copy thumbnail from url: -
in modules/embedvideo/ItemAddEmbedVideo.inc at line 1131 (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 /home1/cechovci/cech_nopublic/g2data/smarty/templates_c/%%2148573673/matrix/%%3A^3A8^3A818B59%%theme.tpl.php at line 85 (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 main.php at line 88

I do not know where is problem. Can you help?

Sorry maxman. I'm back. I'll comment on your issue shortly.

Hi,

Need to enter a few videos. For example:
http://www.vimeo.com/15292976

I have more videos in the profile: http://www.vimeo.com/user694736/videos
But neither does not add to my gallery.

Thank you for returning
Regards
Maxman

New problem to report, must be something in the web-water, the embed code you added to support embedding of Animoto videos has started to fail with any new Animoto's i tried to add since September with the two failing vids error messages:

Error (ERROR_BAD_PATH) : Unable to extract xml information from url: http://animoto.com/play/1oucezdkVCuPsBIT1ovSIA

Error (ERROR_BAD_PATH) : Unable to extract xml information from url:http://animoto.com/play/nhjLQ1wKhLNlaZECfOsEvg

I tried contacting the developers at Animoto and asking if they had recently changed anything relating to XML or their structure for Animoto vids but all i got back was some support-Bambi telling me to "clear the cache in my web browser". Which had nothing to do with the problem.

If you have some time can you take a look and see what they might have changed and if the code for your plugin can be updated?