@Cash ... I'm not seeing anything in 'activity' when I add a video?

Phil 362 days ago

And ... sorry to be a pain ... can you show here a code snippet of how the finished code looks for an insertion into front page please? My coding skills are fairly poor.

Thanks for another awesome plugin.

:)

Phil 362 days ago

Here is a link to what the activity should look like. I tested on a clean 1.5 install. I'll be interested to hear if anyone else is having this problem.

Cash 362 days ago

@Phil - here is a simple code example. I'll take the default index page that comes with Elgg 1.5 and replace the latest activity with a video.

Current code from index.php:

                $title = elgg_view_title(elgg_echo('content:latest'));
                set_context('search');
                $content = list_registered_entities(0,10,true,false,array('object','group'));
                set_context('main');
                global $autofeed;
                $autofeed = false;
                $content = elgg_view_layout('two_column_left_sidebar', '', $title . $content, elgg_view("account/forms/login"));

New code:

                $title = "Front Page Video";
                $content = embedvideo_frontpage();
                set_context('main');
                global $autofeed;
                $autofeed = false;
                $content = elgg_view_layout('two_column_left_sidebar', '', $title . $content, elgg_view("account/forms/login"));

Obviously, further details are very dependent on your current front page. Normally, you'd want to wrap it with a div that has some css associated with it to place it and set margins and so on.

Cash 362 days ago

Thanks Cash - appreciate that.

I'll look into the activity thing some more, see if I can throw some light on it.

Phil 362 days ago

hi cash,

can this been integrated into the blogs? i'm not having any luck on trying to embed youtube videos into blogs or pages and am hoping i might be able to set up the views for those object with your plugin..

brooklyntam 358 days ago

@brooklyntam - no, this does not integrate with the blog and pages plugins. That's something I want to look into.

Cash 358 days ago

@Cash - does this need to be put in any order in the list of plugins?

Dan 355 days ago

@Dan - plugin order shouldn't matter for this one

Cash 355 days ago

compare to izap?  I have premission problems with izap, do you know if I will have the same issues with your plugin?  say group is for logged in users only but video is set to public, don't have problems with this so much as problem with group public and video set to private or logged in.  Part to of question is if I switch will users lose their current video settings?

gone 354 days ago

@goofbucket - this is a very different plugin than the one by izap. Their plugin is more focused on uploading videos/grabbing youtube videos for something like video blogging. Each video gets its own page with comments. This plugin enables users to add videos to their profile pages or administrators add them to front pages. Eventually, I may add the ability to insert videos into blogs.

Cash 354 days ago

Is this plug-in also suited -or adaptable- to Embed standard Flash widgets/gadgets? Like wix.com, sprout.com, issuu, etc.

Unfortunately, if I understand correct,  users even Admin!) can not paste one in Pages, as there Elgg strips Javascript and Flash objects.

Tom 353 days ago

The concept for this is easy enough:

1. user grabs unique address of flash content (in my case video urls)
2. I verify the source of the flash videos for approved locations and extract the unique information
3. I store that unique information as metadata
4. when the widget is viewed, I create the actual embed code for the flash video from the unique information

It shouldn't bet too hard to do the same with general flash widgets.

Cash 353 days ago

ok, just did...but now wondering what to do:

1. release a new plugin called "embedflash" ... like forking...
   
2. move parameters to separate XML file, so we all can add new video's
3. other idea?

Tom 351 days ago

A fork seems reasonable to me.

Cash 351 days ago

Thanks Cash maybe later..  For now I just did a work around

gone 349 days ago

Does this plugin allow you to add videos that are hosted on your own server? Or does the video have to come from  youtube or other video sites?

When I tried to add a video that is hosted on my own server, I got a error message saying "Unrecognized video site."

Any ideas as to how to fix this?

slowsoulz 317 days ago

@slowsoulz - Supports youtube, vimeo, google video, metacafe, veoh, daily motion, blip.tv, teacher tube

Cash 316 days ago

Mine doesn't seem to do any updates on the River?

SAABotage 301 days ago

River updates only work for Elgg 1.5. They should occur everytime you change the url in a widget. The first place to check is the river table in the database to see if they are getting in there. The view is river/object/widget/embedvideo/update

Cash 301 days ago

I just installed the plug in and when I go to my page to test it I get the message:

error loading embedvideo library

Any ideas where to start looking for the problem?

Thanks in advance

conrad 299 days ago

Got it...should really be going to bed about now! Thanks for the plug in.  It's great!

conrad 299 days ago

Hi cash,

How do you add this feature to the custom_index page? Thanks

elggboy 294 days ago

@elggboy - already discussed in the documentation at the top.

Cash 294 days ago

Hi, 

I'm really new to elgg and am using it for a degree final website project. I'm building a media networking site and so being able to embed video (music and art/photos) is vital however every time I try to install the plugin, placing it in the mod file and then enabling it in tool administration, I am met with the message "embedvideo is a misconfigured plugin". It may be that I am just doing something really basic wrong or it may be more complicated. I am keen to use this with youtube and blip.tv as the site is aimed at the iphone/iPod touch which can only handle flash video via youtube (using the application workaround) or using blip.tv which can encode h.264 video which the apple hardware can load in quicktime. Once again, any possible help will be gratefully received.

Hugh

Hugh 263 days ago