Feature #25373
closed
More intuitive handling of media files in the media element
Added by Job Rutgers about 13 years ago.
Updated almost 9 years ago.
Category:
Backend User Interface
Description
Inserting www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLW4DKoncvM in the media does not work .
I am wondering why the flashvars is still outputted as:
var flashvars = {"autoPlay":"TRUE","file":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bLW4DKoncvM"};
see 0015808
I've the same problem on 2 different servers
both:
PHP_VERSION : 5.2.x
(issue imported from #M18011)
- Category deleted (
Communication)
- Assignee set to Christian Jul Jensen
- Target version deleted (
0)
- Category set to Backend User Interface
- Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
This is not really a bug, but a usability issue. It actually works if you do not check the 'Use Player (Flash only)', it will load the youtube (or other supported video sites) correctly.
The flag should only be set if the file is flw, swf, swa, mp3 or mp4 which is the supported formats for the bundled flash player.
We discussed this with Jens Hoffmann and the ideal solution would be to get rid of the setting all together and determine if the bundled player should be loaded depending on the file referenced.
This need to be discussed with Steffen Kamper though, since he has the best overview of the implementation.
- Assignee changed from Christian Jul Jensen to Steffen Kamper
What I am planning to do with this, is to completely remove the flag and trigger the loading of the bundled flash-player if the file is not catched by any of the handlers like youtube, vimeo etc.
Steffen, could you please comment if this sounds like a feasible way to do it or if I am overlooking something.
Hi Julle,
yes, I think this would be the right direction. I would even go so far and let the handlers decide about the type. See #25718, which suggests to introduce the iframe render type for YouTube. The handler then should change from swf to iframe rendering.
Do you want to work on this? Have you talked to SteffenK? We usually don't assign bugs to others.
Steffen
I thought about this automatic thing too while implementing the media element. It turned out very complicated as the file format does not ensure if the player is needed or not. Especially if you configure with urls you may not know about the file if it's already bundled with a player or not.
YouTube is a good example, it provides something with a hash only. Ok, you know youtube, and you know they come along with a player, but there might be other providers where you don't know that.
An idea would be to provide a wizard in a poup where you direct select youtube, vimeo etc, and after entering it in the wizard it would chack/uncheck the option.
- Subject changed from Inserting youtube URL in media does still not work to More intuitive handling of media files in the media element
- Status changed from Needs Feedback to New
- Complexity set to medium
- Assignee deleted (
Steffen Kamper)
In TYPO3 4.7, "usePlayer" is not present anymore so I think we can close this.
- Status changed from New to Needs Feedback
Hi,
as this report is very old, is the handling in newer TYPO3 CMS Versions (6.2.9) more like you expect it?
- Status changed from Needs Feedback to Closed
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