Help talk:Video embed tool


 * Note. See also: Forum:Video embed tool - new feature!

User preferences
If you do not see the Add Video icon on the edit toolbar, try switching to a Monaco skin in "my preferences". --JWSchmidt 20:47, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
 * If you're only doing this one time then you can just add the useskin=monaco URL parameter. Example edit URL:  http://somewiki.wikia.com/index.php?title=Some_article&action=edit &useskin=monaco -- ko isuru ( talk ) 10:02, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Many more sites will be supported?
Waiting for support for:


 * http://Blip.tv
 * http://Viddler.com


 * Yup, still planned. Kirkburn (talk) 13:40, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * This has taken forever to get Viddler into Wikia. Come on, please. Rauterkus 16:41, January 27, 2010 (UTC)


 * http://www.hulu.com
 * Hulu streams full-length episodes of TV shows. Highly-visited TV show wikis want Hulu.


 * It's on the list, but the fact that Hulu is region restricted could be somewhat of an annoyance. Kirkburn (talk) 07:33, 30 March 2009 (UTC)


 * http://photobucket.com/ has videos now. -Lөvөl 21:46, May 10, 2010 (UTC)

Bug: Unnecessarily floating
The following syntax: Video:YouTube demo causes the embedded video to be floating left, when the image counterpart does not float at all. This is an unexpected behavior and can cause page layout problems. I am currently using the old YOUTUBE tags to circumvent this problem. -Afker All hail AliceSoft! 03:47, 26 March 2009 (UTC)


 * We'll look into this - thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 00:53, 27 March 2009 (UTC)


 *  Video:YouTube demo  no longer defaults to floating left. There is no float at all when "left" and "right" and "thumb" are not there. Thanks to all who got this fixed! --Timeshifter 20:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

I kinda like this idea...
However, I had a little problem while editing an article in the fanfiction wiki. I tried to add a link to a video on LiveVideo.com, but it wouldn't be allowed. It happened sometime before the year began. But anyway, should LiveVideo videos be supported? L D E J R u f f  (see what I've contributed ) 17:38, 30 March 2009 (EDT)


 * We do not currently support LiveVideo.com with this tool, but we can look at doing so. Kirkburn (talk) 08:46, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Vandalism
On the digimon wiki, we have seen a lot of instances of IP's being able to screw with the videos. There is absolutely no way to prevent this, you can only clean up after it and hope the IP doesn't switch too much for you to handle.

From what I can tell, the IP is able to do this by using the "revert to a previous version" button on the video's page.


 * 1) The IP is able to do this without even being logged in, despite all normal policies on uploads, which require logged in users with a few days experience to upload.
 * 2) You are unable to block the IP from the logs, as instead of showing the actual IP in question, the uploader is named as the unblockable "An unknown anonymous user".
 * 3) You cannot delete the article and either restore revisions or reupload it under the same name. The past revisions log will still be there.
 * 4) No level of protection will prevent this - I tested this by sysop-protecting it and then logging out, and it was still susceptible.

May I ask, wikia, why you added a system whose main differences from the normal file upload process was mainly that all security measures were removed? Even those security measures which exist on basic wiki articles? Golf lima oscar romeo india oscar uniform sierra  Charlie Hotel Alpha Oscar Sierra!  08:57, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the report, but posting the same messages, across multiple wikis/forum/talk pages does not help the issue. Please report problems, concerns, issues or bugs to Staff using Special:Contact as soon as you see them. --Uberfuzzy 22:44, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Redirect
The help page is protected, and I am unable to move the page myself to set up this redirect.

Could an admin redirect Video Embed Tool to Help:Video Embed Tool? This would make it a lot easier to discuss it across wikia.

People could just link to Video Embed Tool instead of having to use this wikicode:

 Video Embed Tool 

I suggest doing this for many of the help pages. --Timeshifter 19:49, 25 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Shared Help only includes pages in the Help namespace. If we linked to pages outside the help namespace, they would be broken on other wikis. Redirects on here are fine, but they will only work on here. Kirkburn (talk) 15:24, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Float problem solved
Until recently I had to use the YouTube extension in order to avoid certain float problems. I was unable to figure out how to make the Video Embed Tool overcome this problem until now.

User:Kirkburn got the problem resolved for me. See Forum:How can I embed a MySpace video?.

On some pages I like to stack videos on the left and images on the right. For example; see this page.

But one can only float one side or the other. Otherwise there are problems with big white-space gaps between the videos.

The problem is solved by removing "thumb" and "left" from the wikicode used by the Video Embed Tool.


 * 425px


 * instead of


 * thumb|425px|left

So now I can use the Video Embed Tool when stacking videos and images opposite each other on the right and left.

I also like the fact that now all the videos can be easily found in the video category. Google indexes the links in that category too. That is great for getting hits on Wikia pages. --Timeshifter 20:03, 25 April 2009 (UTC)

Needs mention of Special:WikiaVideoAdd
I think this page should mention Special:WikiaVideoAdd. Why is this not in the special pages list anyway? --Wilfred (talk|contribs) 07:41, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added it to the page. Will ask about the SpecialPages list. Kirkburn (talk) 12:35, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

My Space Videos
I've found a few videos on myspace tv that would be a great addition to some pages. Is there a way to upload these yet? Or they only available to load on a MySpace page? Please Reply on my talk page as to alert me when an answer is found.-- My Name Is Tom (Talk / Edits) 04:33, January 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * After searching more about finding how to upload them this is what i found myspacevids. Seems like i'm not the only one. When trying to search for info on it as well here through the forums index search, there were problems trying to open this forum Forum:Videos Not Working? because of a bad title. Also Forum:How can I embed a MySpace video? possibly because of the question marks. -- My Name Is Tom (Talk / Edits) 04:51, January 29, 2010 (UTC)

The supplied video does not exist (Youtube)
When I am trying to embed a youtube video, which was uploaded as private and then changed to public, Wikia almost surely will show "The supplied video does not exist" message. It may take up to 6 hours to the video with changed availability to become "visible" for Wikia.

I haven`t faced with this problem when using http://www.dailymotion.com for example. Please, try to solve this problem. -- Teyandee 18:59, March 23, 2010 (UTC)

Centering Video
I'd like to be able to center the video itself. However, it looks like only 'right' and 'left' are supported. Is there any way to center the that the video appears in? --Pagoda 05:42, August 25, 2010 (UTC)

Thumbnail Link
I want to have a video, that when you click on it, instead of playing within the page, it opens a semi-window (like when you click on an image), where you can watch it. For example: Go here, and where you see Miro, and "added a video" as a summary, you'll see exactly what I want. Is this possible?--ScarTissue 02:40, November 7, 2010 (UTC)

Where is upload a video now located?
The help page says that the "upload GUI only works when on the Monaco skin" for the video embed tool. Since Monaco is no longer available, what other method is available for a person to upload a video to a wiki? - RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 00:08, November 15, 2010 (UTC)


 * Found it. The "Add Video" button on the standard editor still works, even though the "How it works" section says "the upload GUI only works when on the Monaco skin". I usually type in the wikitext by hand, so I pretty much had forgotten that row of buttons was even there. I am going to update the help page to remove the Monaco references since that skin is now dead. - RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 15:26, November 15, 2010 (UTC)

Can height-to-width ratio follow the original Youtube sizing?
Awhile back Youtube videos sized at a particular width in the wikitext would apply a height that followed the height-to-width ratio of the video at youtube.

Now all the youtube videos sized at a particular width have the same initial height. When played most of them shrink further. See examples here:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter - I set the youtube videos in the right-side column to 300 pixels wide. Play some of them to see them shrink further.

See also:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/User:Timeshifter/Page_2 - video gallery is currently defaulting to around 300 pixels wide.

For other videos sized at various widths see:
 * http://cannabis.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Videos

I believe only the embedded youtube videos do not follow the height-to-width ratio of the source video.

Dailymotion and metacafe videos seem to have higher initial heights for embedded 300-pixel-wide videos. --Timeshifter 05:55, December 20, 2010 (UTC)

Examples
Here are the 2 ways one can embed a Youtube video on Wikia:

Cab Calloway - Reefer Man. In the 1933 film, International House. Check out the hair action! YouTube link. Lyrics. "Why, that cat's still high." 300px

Wiki-code for above 300-pixel-wide video:  300px 

D44pyeEvhcQ

Wiki-code for above 300-pixel-wide video:  D44pyeEvhcQ  Note that the video just above does not shrink in width when clicked, and it is playing.

I may have to convert all the videos on the Cannabis Wiki to this old embedding format in order to fix the shrinkage problem of postage-stamp size videos.

'''Click and start playing both of the above videos. One shrinks greatly in width, the other does not shrink in width.''' Until relatively recently both did not shrink. For related info:
 * community:Forum: Video problems --Timeshifter 10:52, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

Screenshot

 * File:Embedded Youtube video width during play.jpg

Summary pages

 * Portal:Video shrinkage problems.

I am in the process of changing the format of all the videos on the Cannabis Wiki to the old embedding format. So the previous examples of video shrinkage that I linked to will no longer be applicable.

To see examples of the problem go to the summary page I linked to above. --Timeshifter 09:13, March 31, 2011 (UTC)

South Park Studios
I've followed all the steps, so there shouldn't be a problem embedding the video, but anything I try to use from South Park Studios only displays a "This video is unavailable" message. Like this:300px|right  Neocarleen •  Talk  18:05, February 4, 2011 (UTC)
 * People can disable embedding of content really easily. Nothing we can do. --Uberfuzzy 00:27, February 25, 2011 (UTC)

Height info missing from help page
How does one adjust the video height? There is no info about height on the help page. There is info about the width. --Timeshifter 17:25, March 3, 2011 (UTC)

tag does not pass W3C code validation
Please see this article:
 * How to Get Youtube Embeds to Pass W3C Code Validation.

It says the tag "was developed by Netscape and is not xhtml compliant."

Below is the HTML for the 2 videos (see higher up) found via "page source" in the view menu of my Firefox browser:



Wiki-code for above 300-pixel-wide video HTML:  300px 

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/D44pyeEvhcQ&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;playerapiid=D44pyeEvhcQ" width="300" height="355" id="YT_D44pyeEvhcQ"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D44pyeEvhcQ&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;playerapiid=D44pyeEvhcQ"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/>

Wiki-code for above 300-pixel-wide video HTML:  D44pyeEvhcQ 

Note that the new video embed tool uses the tag. The older embedding extension uses. I don't understand this stuff much at all, but I thought I should pass on this W3C info I found while trying to figure out height stuff. --Timeshifter 18:00, March 7, 2011 (UTC)