YouTube Videos - multiple opportunities to rage quit

oh my goodness. The videos.

First, the process of adding it to the site requires me to not just grab the URL like every other site I've ever worked with. I have to grab just the name. I'm okay with that, but I foresee my members sending me lots of emails about it being broken.

Second, embedding the video into a page/ discussion. I have tried iFraming and I have tried embedding using the button in the wysiwyg editor. Neither work.


That's three things not going well and all I want to do is post youtube videos. This is a HUGE part of my site and it's difficult.


...help.
updated by @hypnoscott: 10/24/15 02:25:26AM

When you go to add a YT video to the site, do you not get TWO choices? The YT video ID # itself, OR the entire URL of the YT video, copied from your browser?
I get this choice:
"Enter the ID or URL for the youtube video - the YouTube ID is the 11 character ID found in the youtube URL. Alternatively you can just enter the full URL and the ID will be extracted from it."

My members are mostly over 55 yrs old, and although they were at first a bit puzzled about not using the YT embed codes like they used when we were on Ning, I notice they've adapted over the past two months and now seem to know what to do, since they click on the "?" button where they get the prompt above.
I keep a very descriptive forum category for New Site Questions, and on thread is titled Adding Videos where I answer a couple of these questions from members when they come up. I think most of my members are actually reading these help threads, as I have a big pointer on the main page to Site Questions/Answers forum, and also I keep it 'pinned' on top.
But- do you not get those TWO options?

Embedding into a forum post- if you insert a simple LINK to the entire YT video, copied from your browser window, you can give the link any 'text to show' label you want, and if someone clicks on it, it opens the YT video right there in the post and plays it.

Not trying to answer or negate your issues, but just saying what happens in my site, just IN CASE you didn't realize something or didn't have some item or setting enabled- you could then get to the bottom of it or help orientate your members. If my post doesn't help, then please ignore it, with my apologies.




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...just another satisfied Jamroom customer.
Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 09/16/15 09:16:34AM

When creating a YouTube video you just paste in the URL, or, as Strum said, just the 11 character ID.
Also, if you install and enable the UrlScan module, just paste the URL into any text/editor box and it'll be converted to its video title linked to an inline player.
hth


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist

so you are saying if I add this module:
https://www.jamroom.net/the-jamroom-network/networkmarket/131/media-url-scanner

I can just copy/paste the url of the youtube video directly into the text editor field and it will work automatically with no extra steps?

I get this error:
Query Error: Incorrect key file for table './hypnothoughtscom/jr_jrsearch_fulltext.MYI'; try to repair it

Did you run a full integrity check after installing the module? Include checking the boxes for:

validate modules

validate skins

repair tables

optimize tables

clear caches



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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
updated by @strumelia: 09/16/15 09:55:33AM

also if you want vids to be responsive dont paste in the embed code only use the media embed button

strums right that sounds like a cache or db table issue that ntegrity check should fix


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

Wow, I didn't realize that about the video's responsiveness- thanks Soaring!


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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015

unless jr has a built in way to make embeds responsive and iframes
i know on ning 3 i had to make my own respoonsive fix and wrap all embeds and iframes in an then use something like (trying to rmember exactly)
something like that that covered all forms of embeds and made them responsive
the embed media button should do something like tht for you


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

got it all working. Thanks for the help everyone. The learning curve on that new dashboard is pretty steep for me, so I'll be back soon asking for more insights.

thanks

Just what I was saying on the HT discussion forum this morning, Scott! That dashboard isn't the easiest job on the planet; and I've been working JR since V.3.

Now I have my own problem, folks. I'm not much of a coder, and the YouTube API update has put a stop to me embedding videos at my own Jamroom.

I'm using the Google Dev Console as described in the YouTube Support section. I see an immediate possible security problem. Google itself recommends designating referring domains before using the new API key in production, and JR Dev is saying leave the referrers section blank.

Wouldn't it be more secure to use my domain as the sole referrer?
updated by @lynnbird: 09/19/15 02:28:17AM

why are you using the api and not just using the simple import by url


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soaringeagle
head dreadhead at dreadlocks site
glider pilot student and member/volunteer coordinator with freedoms wings international soaring for people with disabilities

Sure do that if you want to limit it to one domain.

I use my one key on all my sites. I just don't let anyone know what my key is, so that's safe enough for my liking.

Worst case scenario: you give your key to someone and they use it to use the youtube API to embed videos.