Comment: #catalogue_entry_1774

Just to let you know an interesting test I ran just now. I tried using the video entry screen to add this video (I copied the share URL) in the URL field---

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/09/18/fifth-annual-ganesh-festival-attracts-hundreds-helps-bring-community-closer-to-building-new-temple/#ooid=pyazZwZTpozZK-1SaJ1qFmXiKkgtqVpw

Our system did make the entry, but just shows an image of a frame from the move. The image is linked to the URL above. When you click, it tries to open a new overlay window, and it just hangs (just showing the little red loading bar). While it's hanging, if you click the 'See full image' link, then it opens a new browser tab and takes you to the Windsor Star article page which contains the video

This is a Wordpress blog. Wordpress does support oEmbed export, but only in a very basic way. This is coming through as a "link" type, with a thumbnail. I have tuned Composr to better handle this so you'll now get a linker box.

okay, thanks Chris, now it works better.

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Hello Chris, perhaps this one is related to the new way links are handled. I got a email notification for a comment on a small news bulletin I made about a new website member. In the bulletin I had said that we welcome Jigisha Patel into this website as an Advanced HA Student. 'Advanced HA Student' is linked to her profile page. However in the email notification where it shows a teaser of the bulletin before showing the comment, it displays the entire link URL instead of just 'Advanced HA Student' etc. Screen shot of email notification enclosed.
Bulletin page--
http://www.saivasiddhanta.org/site/index.php?page=news&type=view&id=aadheenam-announcements%2Fnew-website-member-in_2&blog=0

Ah. I had not considered that these could show up in e-mails.

I have disabled the ability for these link boxes to show for Comcode links, for now.

In v10 we will explicitly tell emails to use direct links. We will also improve our meta description generation to make it more attractive.

Hello Chris,

I must confess to having put this one on the back burner for a while. I wanted to announce it to our site members, but I kept putting it off because I would needed to test out more of the services. I'd like to get it announced, so I've finally done some more testing and here are the results I experienced--


Flickr--
When I attempted to add a Flickr photo to a gallery or blog post, using the Share Link (https://flic.kr/p/nQnTrL) or direct URL (https://www.flickr.com/photos/fozman/14028670228/in/photolist-nQnTrL-m87npd-nnEAUC-nzA2hr-mb43BH-nEybdE-nsvx9C-nanGbk-nRCAts-nCvxMN-ncugbo-ntdQ7P-mnAXBb-nC3JWX-nxY9Ud-mEWFPP-bk5B6i-egFieW-atzdem-apPuvi-9wpU3d-nqZDVD-68DxGi-mDTbpD-cErZvb-fdBx78-jrbPZu-8YCJjB-fHWz35-n8x6Xn-8u4yuW-5UwdPQ-4idkJg-9WAVL9-ae3gBU-6TJooc-csdB5C-5C6JQZ-5B6Ant-62nwQu-nnYNHz-a8di3Z-brTXEo-3Mbb8M-nfruTz-7wm3jd-5oSPjP-e1HAXB-ivT6pb-GfFhG/)

only a thumbnail showed up in the post, not the large image.
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Twitpic video—
I tried adding the URL for this video into a video gallery—
http://twitpic.com/e8dpcx
When I pasted it in the URL field, the end result was just an image, not the video. When I pasted the embed code in the Description field, the end result was a JW Player window but the video wouldn’t play.
When I pasted both of the above into a blog post, both only showed up as links, the video was not embedded.
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Twitpic photo—
When I paste a Twitpic photo URL (http://twitpic.com/e7qcm5) in a blog post, it just shows as a link. If I paste the embed code (<a href="http://twitpic.com/e7qcm5" title="Farms and Mt. Jefferson. Hazy day with a wildfire burning. I ... on Twitpic"><img src="http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/e7qcm5.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="Farms and Mt. Jefferson. Hazy day with a wildfire burning. I ... on Twitpic"></a>) into the blog post, the photo shows, but just as a thumbnail, not full size.
However the full size does show if I add the URL to a photo gallery.
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Instagram photo—
If a paste a URL (http://instagram.com/p/quf_ZILLM4/?modal=true) in a blog post, the photo shows as thumbnail size, not full size (though the embed iframe code will show full size).
If I paste the above URL into the URL field for adding to a photo gallery, I get a “critical error—bailing out” message when saving.

Instagram video—
If I try to add a video (http://instagram.com/p/nm1_6-nBTS/) to a video gallery, it says an error occurred because of not being able to generate a thumbnail. Can this be fixed?
If I paste the same video URL into a blog post, it just shows as a link, doesn’t embed the video. (However if I paste the iframe embed code in the Source view, the video gets embedded.)
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Photobucket—
If I paste a direct link (http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af263/NunoBreia/Ibiza/20140702_113358_zpsceec4008.jpg) in a blog post, it only shows a thumbnail, not the full image. However if I paste the html share code directly in WYSIWYG view (<a href="http://s1014.photobucket.com/user/NunoBreia/media/Ibiza/20140702_113358_zpsceec4008.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1014.photobucket.com/albums/af263/NunoBreia/Ibiza/20140702_113358_zpsceec4008.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 20140702_113358_zpsceec4008.jpg"/></a>), the full photo shows.

If I paste the direct link above into URL field for adding to a photo gallery, it does show the full photo after saving, which is what we want.
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Soundcloud—
If I paste a share link (https://soundcloud.com/thichnhathanh/five-year-program-and-becoming-a-monastic) into a blog post, it just shows as a link after saving; nothing is embedded.

If I try adding the above to a video/audio album, it says “error, file type not recognized”
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Wikipedia images—
If I try to add a direct URL (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#mediaviewer/File:Valmiki_Ramayana.jpg) or the Share link (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valmiki_Ramayana.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Valmiki_Ramayana.jpg) to a photo album, it gives error and says the filetype is not recognized.

If I add either of the above to a blog post, the image doesn’t show. The image does show nicely if I paste the html embed code in the WYSIWYG view.
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Google Maps—
Tested only in a blog poste. I don’t know if it’s intended that a Share link (https://www.google.com/maps/place/107+Kaholalele+Rd,+Kapaa,+HI+96746/@22.0577409,-159.3928801,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x7c06e222cd51e80b:0x86d769403d23f74e) is supposed to be able to embed the map, but it only shows a link, doesn’t embed. (however the iframe embed code works fine if I paste it in Source view)
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Hello,

I also just discovered a bug. When I paste a youtube direct URL or share URL into the text body of a new news/blog article, and it's there by itself with no text pasted in from somewhere else, then the video gets embedded fine. But as soon as I copy and paste text in there from somewhere else, the embedding stops functioning and only the URL appears in the article body, even if I select the pasted text and click the icon to 'remove formatting'

In other words, the embedding still works fine if I type some text directly in the article body. But if I paste text from somewhere else, it stops working

Hi,

Okay, I've made many changes for you.

1) I have made it so direct link posting no longer specifies a thumbnail. It will now show the largest pic oembed gets.
2) Flickr was not providing a large image. I have fiddled it so the code can locate one. I can't guarantee this will continue to work well though.
3) Instagram was not providing a large image. I have fiddled it so the code can locate one. I can't guarantee this will continue to work well though.
4) Instagram video oembed was not providing a video embed. I have fiddled it to auto-inject the missing embed code using their standard pattern.
5) I have worked around a specification issue with noembed when images are concerned - it was giving the main URL as a remote page link, rather than an image. I've added a special case in the code, making it pull through the thumbnail_url instead if that is also provided.
6) I have fixed instagram photo gallery adding, which was due to a specification issue with their feed. My fix is general purpose, if other providers have this issue the fix will work too.
7) I have added support for a video_thumb theme image, which provides a default if no thumbnail can be generated. I copied over your logo as the default, but you'll want to put in a better file here. I can't generally auto-generate an accurate thumbnail as oEmbed video feeds are HTML-based, not a direct h264 file (for example) -- so there's nothing for me to directly grab against. Well, I probably could do something, but it'd be a big job to make some clever workaround.
8) Soundcloud had developed an SSL issue. I e-mailed them (CC'd you in on it). I have disabled SSL checks for their domain to workaround their problem.
9) I have disabled the automatic-image detection based on URLs, which was hitting in the Wikipedia case. That was a nice trick to make things faster, but it just did not consistently work. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism#mediaviewer/File:Valmiki_Ramayana.jpg" is not actually a DIRECT image. So now it looks a lot deeper to find the correct renderer. That said, sharing this URL won't share the specific image, it'll share the main page, because everything after "#" is Javascript-driven rather than a part of the real URL.
10) I have added support for commons.wikimedia.org as well as the main wikipedia.org domain. This share does what you'd expected (shared that specific image).
11) Google had changed maps to use the main Google domain. I have adjusted the code to be able to handle this.
12) I have extended our domain-whitelist feature to be able to white-list the noembed.com and embed.ly domains. So now it doesn't just check against the URLs being posted, but also can get permission via the oembed URLs that will be used to generate the embed. This works well. I did this because I didn't want to authorise HTML from the whole of google.com to run, only for the maps embed code served by embed.ly.

Notes:

1) I don't believe Twitpic video is giving a video player embed at all.
2) When using WYSIWYG make sure you post the URL in plain text, not in an HTML <a> tag. An <a> tag may be automatically made when you paste a link in from a rich-text source. I think this is what you were doing. If you paste as an <a> tag, Composr will not see this as a dangling URL for it to embed stuff against. I don't want to change that, as using <a> tags is a good way to bypass the behaviour of the media renderer if you're carefully marking up your documents.

"I can't generally auto-generate an accurate thumbnail as oEmbed video feeds are HTML-based, not a direct h264 file (for example) -- so there's nothing for me to directly grab against. Well, I probably could do something, but it'd be a big job to make some clever workaround."

Actually, I'll retract that to a degree. For the Instagram video case, they had an OpenGraph image on their page under the given URL, so now we can grab those as thumbnails if they are present.

Most sites won't provide that, for in those cases we'd have to have some clever image scanner, or screenshot creater- which would indeed be very hard to do.



I also found a bug, the Instagram video did not embed correctly when posted as a video. This was due to it not auto-detecting width and height properly, and then it was querying for an embed smaller than Instagram would supply. I have fixed this.

Thank you Chris, I'll look through this and test the examples again to understand better.

I also notice that someone pasted a youtube link in their blog post but because it was a mobile link, it only showed as a link (albeit with a title and 'go to' button), rather than being embedded--

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_luHF6CA8A8

Can this kind of link also be embedded?

Hello Chris,

Someone was just trying to add some videos to our video gallery that he had uploaded to facebook from his iphone. It's not working. The system says invalid file type. Here are the URLs that he tried to add--

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203546649439097&l=4727286634280771753

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203546650199116&l=6186956848313774010

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203546653959210&l=5785535620887678229

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203546657599301&l=6030176989534386652

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10203546651039137&l=2326301932019907485

The above cases now work.

Hello Chris, thank you.

I was able to embed the first facebook video above in a blog post, but when I test adding it to a video gallery, I get this error message--

"Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA certificates"

It may be their SSL certificate is signed by a root provider not recognised by your server (basically). I seem to remember this being the case with Facebook.

I just disabled SSL checking on that domain.

Thanks Chris, working now

Hello Chris,

I suspect the above work may be behind a new bug. If I try to add any youtube video to a gallery, I'm getting this error message--

The URL, http://img.youtube.com/vi/youtu.be/0.jpg, was not found

Yes, sorry about that - it should now be fixed.

many thanks for quick fix!

Hello Chris, this morning someone added four facebook videos to galleries and they're not showing properly. This time it's displaying a link to the facebook video page.

I was trying to figure out why the previous facebook videos are showing properly and these new ones aren't. I finally noticed a difference in the URL. The previous ones look like this--
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1592044873277&l=3851389883115943127

The ones uploaded this morning look like this--
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10203811185252327&l=3190328303484044259

see the difference?